Accustomed to blowing hot and cold, theMarseille Olympic is still experiencing a season full of contrasts. After a sluggish start, the Marseille club benefited from a very active transfer window to enjoy a good run at the start of the fall.
A positive dynamic which still allows OM to hang on in the title race for the moment. But matters for Roberto De Zerbi’s team have become complicated on the European scene.
Roberto De Zerbi, OM coach.
With three defeats in their first four outings in the League phase, OM are only in 25th place in the rankings of this new Champions League formula. The club’s chances of qualifying for the play-offs are already reduced before the last four matches (Newcastle and Liverpool at home, Union Saint-Gilloise and Bruges on the road).
A pessimistic clairvoyant for the OM season
In this context, some followers of Olympique de Marseille do not hide their pessimism for the progress of this season. And it’s not the recent intervention of a clairvoyant in the show L’Equipe du Soir that will be likely to reassure her. On October 31, La Chaîne’s flagship program L’Equipe celebrated Halloween in its own way, with original and offbeat themes. Giovanni Castaldi and his columnists took the opportunity to call on a clairvoyant to ask her a few questions on current issues.
Olympique de Marseille was mentioned, and the professional took part in the game. “I don’t particularly have good news, I’m sorry”she said straight away, drawing the cards. “We are reaching the end of something which is quite painful and complicated”she added, before showing another card: “here are the doubts”. Before a slightly more encouraging note in conclusion: “I have positive cards despite everything but we are still more on something negative. » Predictions that should obviously be taken with a pinch of salt for Roberto De Zerbi, who is determined to thwart these predictions…
