Visually, it was not the most beautiful OM that we had the chance to observe, Saturday evening, in Clermont (2-0 victory thanks to a double from Alexis Sanchez). Even if “the ground was not very good”, to take up the grumblings of Igor Tudor after the meeting, the excuse is a little too light to be taken seriously. We must rather look on the side of past battles and this fatigue which begins to weigh on the thighs and the brains.
“It is always difficult to play three games in the space of six days, analyzes the Marseille coach. It’s not just the legs. It’s also in the head that it happens when you see the intensity that we put into the match against Paris on Wednesday. »
“A game under control overall”
A little earlier, at the microphone of Canal +, Jonathan Clauss was in favor of the same idea. “Three games in eight days is not particularly easy. There was also the temperature, the delayed match, the psychological aspect… We get the result we need. We score in the first period and we kill the match ten minutes from the end, it’s a game under control overall. »
The main thing is there for Marseille, who take advantage of the Parisian faux pas in Monaco to come back to five points from the lead. Even if Clauss always pretends to care a little more about what’s going on below. “We had the pressure put on by Monaco this afternoon. We had to do things well, take three points, we did it and we are happy. »