Passionate and passionate, Roberto de Zerbi looks like Olympique de Marseille. The Italian technician demonstrated it several times in his first year on the Marseille bench.
No one has forgotten their attitude after defeat at the Vélodrome against AJ Auxerre (1-3). De Zerbi had then dropped that he was ready to tear his contract to leave without claiming the slightest compensation if he was not up to expectations.
Roberto de Zerbi, OM coach.
Water has flowed under the bridges, and the fiery Italian put water in its wine once the curtain of the season fired. With a little hindsight, the OM coach recognized that the audience of the Vélodrome, renowned for his incredible passion, could sometimes inhibit his players.
“At the start of the season, the Vélodrome was scary”
“They can really influence the result,” said Roberto de Zerbi in the Italian Podcast Supernova. They can be both the engine and the brake. At the start of the season, the velodrome was scary: too much pressure, too much tension. The velodrome was a brake for many players. We won outside, but at home we lost. »»
“We had to talk about it together, understand what it means playing for Marseille, continued from Zerbi, who then welcomed himself to have known how to apprehend the environment of the Vélodrome. When you manage to create a connection with the public, you really play with a twelfth man. And especially during the return phase, we were the team that took the most points at home in France. »»
