After stretching their winless streak to 12 games, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-de-Marseille-c40127 are once again a target of criticism
Many Marseille fans anxiously awaited the final result of their Ligue 1 game against Montpellier Herault at the Stade Velodrome. Rene Girard’s men beat Marseille 3-1 in that game to go three points clear at the top of the Ligue 1 table.
However, it wasn’t Montpellier who dominated headlines the very next day. It was Marseille who were target of ire from many writers.
Apart from a “champions in Montpellier”, the defeat and the poor performance of Didier Deschamps’ men was not going to impress fans.
While everyone was wondering about a possible non-match, the penalty that OM conceded in the fifth minute was a definitely poor one. The ball touched Djimi Traore’s hand and resulting spot-kick was coolly converted by Younes Belhanda.
Many Marseille fans wanted Montpellier to win as they were never going to want to see Paris Saint-Germain win the title. And, newspapers in Paris and one in Rhone, Provence, had some good headlines to sum up the whole game.
Provence wrote, “As expected” while Le Parisien showed its anger at how their rivals performed. “OM gives Montpellier a helping hand,” read a headline.
However, L’Equipe gave a pretty practical look on things. “OM weighed down by their limits.” Indeed, Marseille showed all symptoms of an ailing team in the game and an eleventh loss in 12 games in all competition means that confidence is hard to find for
them.
Furthermore, the loss was not the best preparation for the team’s Coupe de La Ligue final against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-Lyonnais-c40130.
Andre-Pierre Gignac was given a rare start in the game and the French striker was called back to the bench after the hour mark. The former Toulouse man went to the bench without shaking Didier Deschamps’ hand.
Commentators on Canal Plus claim that the troubled and troublesome striker told his coach, “Please get me out, thank you for the whistles.”
However, Gignac still denies these rumours.
“And now a controversy for nothing! Canal + invented my words! It just gets better! This controversy has no place and the subject is closed.”
In short, it is not party time at OM.
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