There are international truces that come at a better time than others. For Olympique de Marseille, being able to take a breather after a series of five defeats in a row in all competitions was probably not a luxury.
The Marseille leaders took the opportunity to take stock of their team, after this one-way transfer window, in that of departures. It was also a question of taking stock of the first matches, where OM obtained “lots of opportunities”, while suffering “a lot in transition, with a fairly high block”.
“It challenges us, indicates sports director Grégory Lorenzi in L’Equipe. We lack rhythm, we do good things and we falter after an hour. We are not going to revolutionize the workforce because we cannot do it. You have to emphasize the things you do well, while avoiding exposing yourself. »
OM and the limits of its workforce
What emerges from the interview given by the former Brestois is that the new management team has inherited “of a workforce that is what it is. » Implied, a collection of players who have two things in common: they were recruited during the Pablo Longoria era, and they were not sold this summer, by choice or by default.
Which gives an obvious limit to this OM: “We are the team that runs the least in Ligue 1. We are not capable of doing more, so we are thinking with the staff about ways to get around that. (…) The coach does not see a player who cheats. Afterwards, there are player characteristics which mean that we have certain deficiencies and we cannot remedy them. We must try to optimize. » Quite a task…
