Arrived this summer in Marseille, Marcelino struggles to convince observers and supporters, for the moment disappointed by the level of jau displayed by OM.
This is not the dream start to the season for OM. Eliminated from the Champions League in the third preliminary round and returned to a complicated group in the Europa League, Marseille occupies a very flattering third place in Ligue 1. Flattering because, in the game, the Phocaeans do not pack many people. Whether it was last Friday against Nantes, quickly reduced to ten (1-1), or during their two previous outings against Brest (2-1) and Messins, also outnumbered (2-2), the Olympians have was uninspired. And even often dominated.
Certainly, and Jean-Pierre Papin recalled it in the corridors of Beaujoire on Prime Video, OM “just changed a lot of players, coaches and also organization”which is not “not easy to set up”. But the ” progress “ that the new adviser to the president Pablo Longoria notes “from match to match” don’t really jump out at you. Blame it on Marcelino? This is what a former member of the house, Elie Baup, thinks. For the former coach of Ciel et Blanc, from 2012 to 2013, the show offered by the Spanish technician is not up to expectations.
Marcelino already under pressure!
“Generally speaking, if you don’t have a certain sense of spectacle, a form of madness with intensity, the supporters and those who love football have the impression that it purrs, that it’s too classic, almost to piss off, he loose in the columns of the daily Provencequestioning in particular the 4-4-2 favored by the successor of Igor Tudor. The main difficulty with this system is inside the game. With winger profiles, defensive midfielders have 40 meters of space in front of them and when the attacker picks up, he is always with his back to the game.
“It is absolutely necessary that one of the two midfielders go up to bring in the surplus, create the gaps, find the spacesdevelops the one who was crowned champion of France on the bench of Bordeaux, in 1999. But when you find yourself facing a team in 4-3-3, you are in deep shit; one of the attackers must go down a notch. Finally, it is the theory of the game, but also the reality.“ A difficult formula to find, but Marcelino is already in a hurry: “He is undoubtedly super humanly and intellectually, but it is Marseille. And he has no time. OM will always be OM. »
