The reactions of OM and Marseille after the coronation of PSG in the Champions League

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By: Manu Tournoux

For some, this last Saturday evening of the month of May will be their most beautiful football memory. After so many years, Paris Saint-Germain has finally won this long-awaited Champions League, and with the more way, attracting praise from the international press. A day that will therefore remain engraved in the history of the capital's club. But in France, necessarily, they were also numerous to be behind Inter for this final. It was especially true in the south of France, where fans of the Marseille Olympics did not want to see their sworn enemy winning this star which was missing. The Marseillais remain the first, but the more the only ones …

On social networks, the mayor of the city Benoît Payan expressed himself: “Forever the first 🌟 Marseille forever #teamom”. The famous pro-OM influencer Mohamed Henni displayed him, on his many accounts, his spite following this coronation of PSG that the Marseillais feared so much. Present in the stands in Munich on Saturday evening, he even put on the PSG jersey.

PSG, “Forever the second” For the Marseillais

A speech necessarily more measured on the side of the Marseille press where we do not forget that OM remains forever the first French club to have won this competition. “After fourteen years and more than 2 billion euros spent in transfer compensation, the PSG Qatar version ended up winning the Champions League. OM has a successor to the C1 list. But let's not be mistaken, the Marseillais will forever remain the first to have settled at the top of European football ”, Precise as well as Provence. “32 years after OM, Parisians forever the second to win the Champions League”can we read in this same article as well as one of the edition of the daily day.

Unlike many Ligue 1 clubs such as LOSC or AS Monaco, or even FC Barcelona internationally, Olympique de Marseille has not publicly congratulated Paris Saint-Germain on its social networks. No player has logically expressed himself following this Parisian coronation as well. Suffice to say that in Marseille, we will want to forget this weekend as soon as possible …

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