After three matches without a victory, Olympique de Marseille returned to success last Saturday. Except that the performance of the Marseille club in Auxerre, during the eleventh day of Ligue 1, was not really reassuring.
Benjamin Pavard and his teammates hardly put any intensity into the game. Christophe Dugarry was definitely bored watching this meeting. Main target of the sports consultant:
Roberto DeZerbi.
“You can play an average match and win it, but here we are going beyond the average, the acceptable. This match was monstrous. What shocks me is that I can’t even find De Zerbi’s style. Against Angers, they are physically eaten up, in intensity. There, they go to Auxerre, there isn’t even any pressing anymore, I don’t even know how they play. They are playing ball. There isn’t even an identified style of play. The game in the corridors is transparent, there is never a dribble that is done,” the 1998 world champion was offended.
De Zerbi, questionable choices
The former striker doesn’t understand where the Olympian coach is coming from: “There is nothing at all, nothing is happening. I don’t know what De Zerbi works on during the week in training. To put out a team lineup like that, I wonder what those nights are like. They must be terrible to be able to put together a team composition like that and provide such a performance.”
On Wednesday evening, OM will pass a real test by welcoming Atalanta to the Orange Vélodrome for the fourth day of the league phase of the Champions League. For the moment, he occupies a play-off place in this competition.
