From our special correspondent at the Atleti Azzurri d’Italia stadium in Bergamo,
If the Marseillais played all their matches at home, they would probably be in the Europa League final, and on the Ligue 1 podium. Except that football is also played away and Olympique de Marseille once again paid the price Thursday evening in Bergamo against Atalanta (3-0), in the C3 semi-final.
Going to the Vélodrome stadium had given hope, but the Marseillais once again “fell back into [leurs] through.” “When we see the European matches that we have played away, we are a bit in the same lethargy,” analyzed Jean-Louis Gasset.
“May the Vélodrome transcend them”
To the point of finally “summarizing” the OM season. “It’s not a problem of individualities. This is a group that we have been living with for two months and who have often done very well at the Vélodrome and not well outside. It’s like this season with a lack of awareness and a lack of personality. “It’s only the Vélodrome that transcends them,” “doctor” Jean-Louis Gasset did not hesitate to diagnose. To the point of comparing his players to “tigers” at the Vélodrome, and “cats” outside, at the microphone of Canal+.
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The problem is profound since OM have only won one European Cup match this season, against AEK Athens, and are dead last in Ligue 1 in the away rankings, tied with Clermont. Except that this new defeat away from their bases deprives the Marseillais of a Europa League final which could have qualified them for the C1. In the league, there are only three games left to hold on to Europe, two of which are away. No more purring, then.