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After just one win from the last five games, the nerves at Olympique Marseille seem to be slowly but surely bare in the fight for the Champions League places of Ligue 1. As the “L’équipe“In a detailed report, there was almost a mutiny of the players last Monday. The trigger is said to have been the behavior of coach Roberto de Zerbi.
After the 1: 3 defeat in relegation candidate Stade Reims, the Italian saw the attitude of his professionals unworthy that he was even disgusted. “I will not train you today,” the 45-year-old is said to have said in the cabin on Monday afternoon. This attitude led to the team that had refused to take up the training. “Then we don’t go to the square.”
In order to settle the situation, sports director Medhi Benatia was consulted. The exchange with the ex-Bayern professional took almost an hour. Benatia appealed to the professionals to respect their role and give full throttle for the club. However, the players are said to have held against it and asked the 37-year-old whether he had ever experienced a trainer who behaved in this way. If de Zerbi does not want to train her, he should logically not sit on the bench at the weekend.
The team also denounced a certain hypocrisy. In good results, there is always the feeling of a large family, but with a bad result, however, it is difficult to criticize. “You should have won against this rhyme with your level and the team, even without a coach that leads you,” Mediator Benatia is said to have emphasized. The players were finally convinced and still trained, while De Zerbi watched a few dozen meters away from the square cold and uninvolved.
It is not the first time that de Zerbi and his team together. Since the commitment last summer, an atmosphere of sugar bread and whip has been there. The Italian sees the role of the trainer like that of the father: sometimes loving, sometimes demanding. Passionate, excessive, excited as an arc, the sheet describes the behavior of de Zerbis. There were already several outbreaks in the first half of the season. The OM coach shouted at his players, so much insulted-so much that Lilian Brassier (25), who has now moved to Stade Rennes, would have become almost palpable. In March, two training sessions from De Zerbi were canceled after 15 minutes.
De Zerbi rages and after the game of Olympique Marseille in Reims
In Reims, the behavior of the trainer has seamlessly integrated into this series. Pole Lirola (27), with whom De Zerbi rental together during the half -time break, was particularly victim. “Nobody wanted you to have you in this club last summer. I was the only one who believed in you. And you thank you by defending it. The Spaniard, who wears the OM jersey again after two borrowings, was replaced by Ismaël Bennacer.
The next day the team had to see the game of the upcoming opponent FC Toulouse against Stade Brest (2: 4) as part of the game preparation. Only at 8:30 p.m. the OM professionals should have left the site, which some players are said to have regretted Muslim faith, since they could not celebrate the festival of fasting with their family. “I never see my family. So you don’t go to your family,” de Zerbi is said to have returned.
On Monday, the loose attitude of some players – including the previously repelled Lirola – opened up. “If you want to see me fail? Then we will all fail together,” de Zerbi is said to have kneaded. The head start of the third in the table on the pursuers OGC Nice and Losc Lille is only two points for seven outstanding games. To date, Marseille under de Zerbi, which was recently associated with AC Milan, has won an average of 1.79 points in 29 games.
