In April 2002, Marcelo Bielsa was still in France. Thirteen years later, however, the Marseille coach imitated unwittingly, Lionel Jospin, he knows probably not: assume full responsibility for a major defeat, namely Om face PSG Sunday (2-3). Except that unlike the former Socialist presidential candidate, the Argentine technician has not announced his retirement from football life, not even leaving Marseille at the end of season or now. It will remain well to the bar for the last seven league matches. But this setback was scored. Even if he wanted to hide his face betrayed him.
Head down, as usual, but the more learned than usual traits, Bielsa appeared face reporters defeat mine, twenty minutes after the final whistle. “The result is right. It’s their game that has taken over” , admitted in a press conference “El Loco”, not necessarily accustomed to admit defeat tactically. A mea culpa in due form. And because Bielsa has renounced his principles at the most important time of the season. A temptation that it seemed safe and that precipitated the loss of his team in the shock of the 31st day of Ligue 1.
Rod Fanni al struggle with Zlatan Ibrahimovic – AFP
A OM disoriented
Former Chile coach normally reserves its scheme to three defenders to confront opponents evolving with two strikers. Not this time. By aligning a face 3-5-2 4-3-3 Parisian, he had opted for individual marking, Imitating the central axis of the attack on the double champion title in France. Jérémy Morel was responsible for blocking Edinson Cavani, Rod Fanni looked after Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Alaixys Romao was glued to the Basque Javier Pastore. This choice paid sequentially, as in the second goal from Marseille, initiated by the Togolese international scratched on a ball in the feet of “El Flaco”. The tree that hides the forest.
Because beyond the tactical set, Marseille had reviewed their habits and took the party to move a notch lower, certainly in the context of depriving the PSG space in the back of the defense. The problem is that the Phoenicians had never done the season and they had no benchmark to apply this recipe. Especially facing a finalist quarterback Champions League.
A burst of energy that pays
Back on the fence, they groped for a good half hour in the first period. Their block stretched for fifty yards, the media does not always accompany the dry triggered by the attackers, and left the boulevards to the Parisians in the middle. Thiago Motta and Marco Verratti certainly do not need that to express their technical quality.
Especially Mario Lemina had no shoulder to shoulder only the usual role to Giannelli Imbula suspended Sunday night. Of good will, the former Lorient ended up exhausted to want to leverage to plug the holes. Two thrusts of Andre-Pierre Gignac in full success, OM has reached the break with a benefit unthinkable fifteen minutes earlier. But the power granted debauchery ended up paying. As in the first leg, Marseille were chewed physically in the second period.
The purpose of Marquinhos for PSG – AFP
No win against Top 4
Their heads were not released, though their bodies, by dint of chasing that elusive ball. For the first time this season in Ligue 1, they had less possession than the opponent (51% -49% in favor of Paris). This was seen. “The key to the game is that it has never been comfortable, it has never been able to impose our game, or neutralize the amount of our rival passes, Bielsa said. (… ) I knew they were monopolizing the game by keeping the ball and my scheme did not work. “
At the end of the game, the Olympian coach took everything for him. The fault, it’s not his players, but his choices. “The match individually was positive. But despite this, it was dominated. The PSG game project was more effective than mine. There was neither chance nor anything that is not directly related to football. So there’s no excuse to present “. Lucid in his self-criticism, Bielsa will end the season without any victory against the direct competitors of OM in the Ligue 1 2014-2015 Version (PSG, Lyon, Monaco). A real task in its balance sheet.
Marcelo Bielsa (OM) – Panoramic
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