Cyrille de la Morinerie // Photo credit: NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP
A very important match during this 26th day of Ligue 1, Rennes hosts Marseille at 5:05 p.m. Two teams neck and neck in the standings. And after five victories, Marseille were beaten by Villareal in the Europa League. A major challenge for Jean-Louis Gasset, to continue winning.
It was a first alert and proof that Olympique de Marseille is not yet completely healed. After having had five successes, Jean-Louis Gasset and his men fell in Spain on Thursday in the round of 16 second leg of the Europa League.
“Marseille is still convalescing”
And the interim coach, who arrived at the Olympian club’s bedside on February 20, remains lucid about the level of his team: “Marseille is still convalescing at the level of technical mastery, at the level of mastery of the event”. After a failed experience at the head of the Ivory Coast, the 70-year-old coach, former assistant to Laurent Blanc in the French team and at Paris Saint-Germain, relaunched OM.
Proof that there is no age to succeed, confirms one of his close friends, the coach Didier Deschamps: “We are not going to repeat the debate: young, not so young, old, old. For the moment , it’s a hit. So congratulations!” Now the road becomes steeper. After Rennes, Marseille will face PSG then Lille. Jean-Louis Gasset, who must stay in Marseille until the end of the season, hopes that his team will continue their comeback.