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what will stop the fall of the Olympique de Marseille (OM)? In just one week, Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the club owner, has put the club on sale, OM again lost against Monaco (2-1), Michel, the coach, was sacked and Le Canard chained , yet few focused on football, has a field day revealing wiretapping bleak
Football. from the resignation of Bielsa to ouster of Michael, the black season of OM
One wonders how the situation could be worse. Relegation to Ligue 2? Nobody really wants to believe it. But this hypothesis, long buried in denial of the players, now gets thick. Since the humiliation against Rennes at the Velodrome (5-2), at the 31 th of Ligue 1, the reality can not be hidden. At the end of the match, Abou Diaby was the first to recognize that the maintenance was now the number one goal of OM. With four games remaining in the championship with six points ahead of the relegation zone, the problem is not resolved. Far from it.
A game for the Europa League
If the main objective is to save the club, the semi-final of the Coupe de France against Sochaux Wednesday 20 April, could afford to miraculously save the Marseilles season. Incredible as it may seem, Marseille could get at the end of the game a place in the Europa League next season. After qualifying the Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) for the final of the Coupe de France against Lorient on 19 April, the other finalist will get a ticket to the European competition. A bitter fate for Marseille. They should their European qualification at their Paris enemy, already qualified in the Champions League after his title in Ligue 1
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Called to the rescue as coach after the layoff Michel Franck Passi has declared to be “commando mission” . Facing the precipice before which is OM, the former deputy Michel has no fear of heights: “The pressure always boosted me, it allows me to be calm behind and be clairvoyant . “ Already responsible for the holiday period between the departure of Marcelo Bielsa and the arrival of the Spanish coach early in the season, Franck Passi urged his players to the sacred union: ” the situation is dangerous, we have to be united (…) to finish the season properly. “
History to galvanize
To start this mission last chance, Passi will be at his side Basile Boli, scorer of the glorious the final of the champions League won in 1993 by OM against AC Milan. Deeply committed to the club, both men rely on words to galvanize the players and get them out of the gloom in which they are located: “The words we will use will affect the players, we will try to do their understand that OM is a great club. The winners of the European Cup we find Real Madrid of Barcelona, Milan, but there are not many who win once. “
A solemnity which shows the importance of the match to be played at Stade Bonal in Sochaux. Marseille plays part of its season against a Ligue 2. It is up to them to avoid the nightmare scenario and to give the possibility of a title, the Stade de France for a clasico, who at given the season the two clubs would be unique. The success of lovers face to professional clubs have created the magic of the Cup of France. At the end of the season, it might be that magic that could save OM
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