During the 2014-2015 season, Olympique de Marseille experienced real disillusionment under the orders of Marcelo Bielsa.
As a reminder, the El Loco team led the championship in the winter break, but fell completely in the second half of the season, finishing fourth. A nightmare scenario that Olympique de Marseille does not want to relive this season, despite a comfortable lead over the fourth. Present at a press conference before OM’s move to Saint-Etienne on Wednesday, Dimitri Payet explained that he had raised this painful memory with his trainer André Villas-Boas.
“It was something I had thought of during the break. When I came to the recovery, I told the coach about these concerns so as not to make the same mistakes again. Coming back from the break, after having been the autumn champion, we had lost in Grenoble in the French Cup, then in the championship and it was free-style. I didn’t want it to happen. We had a difficult match in the French Cup and we were able to win it. Today, we find ourselves in the quarterfinals, we then won at Rennes, so we can’t say it’s the same situation. Afterwards, the matches will be difficult. We have a week with three games where we see that it will hurt the ranking a lot. It’s up to us to ensure that we perform well tomorrow in Saint-Etienne, so that we can then welcome Toulouse and try to make this week positive for us. ” said Dimitri Payet, who was already one of the strongmen of Olympique de Marseille under the leadership of Marcelo Bielsa five years ago. And for whom it is absolutely unthinkable to be caught in the same way … Steve Mandanda, who was also present at the time, will certainly share this feeling.
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