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OM: Checkmate for Gattuso, the locker room lets go
Published on January 23, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.
Gennaro Gattuso could have been the coach who would put an end to OM’s drought in terms of trophies. However, the premature elimination of the Olympians in the Coupe de France round of 16 against Stade Rennais seriously endangers the club’s title chances. For Pau Lopez, OM must give a lot more.
Unless there is a cataclysm in Ligue 1 which would allowOM to become champion at the end of the season or an epic in the Europa League, the Marseille club will experience a new white season. Olympique de Marseille’s last title dates back to 2012 with the Coupe de la Ligue.
Gattuso: “We’re sorry, it’s a lot of sadness and disappointment”
And Sunday evening, at the stadium of the 1/16 finals of the Coupe de France, Gennaro Gattuso has already experienced a significant failure on the bench of theOM by being eliminated on penalties by the Stadium Rennes (1-1, then 9-8). “Football is like that. We’re sorry, it’s a lot of sadness and disappointment, but we still had a good match. The players fought but we know what penalties are.” told Gattuso at a press conference.
Lopez: “If we want to be at the top, we have to give more”
Before the meeting and Marseille’s elimination in the Coupe de France, Pau Lopez gave an interview to Canal+. Broadcast as part of the show Channel Football Clubthe guardian of theOM had confided a descent into hell mentally speaking at the start of the season before confiding in the XXL work to be carried out for theOM in order to achieve certain objectives. “For me, you have to be realistic. If we want to be at the top, we have to give more. We have a quality squad, a quality coach and we will see if we are able to succeed or not, but obviously the objective is to be at the top of the ranking. It only depends on us, it depends on whether we do things better than we have done them until now.”