L’Olympic Marseille see you in Brittany, this Sunday evening (8:45 p.m.), during the poster of the 26th day of Ligue 1to face one of its direct competitors in the race for Europe, the Rennais Stadium.
Four days after experiencing terrible disappointment following elimination against Annecy (2-2, 6 pens 7) in the Coupe de France, and a week after being crushed by Paris Saint-Germain at the Vélodrome (0-3), the Marseillais will try to raise their head in the league.
Second in Ligue 1, Igor Tudor’s players will not have to let go of this directly qualifying place for the next edition of the Champions League at the risk of ending the season on a very bitter taste when it already seemed successful there. a few weeks.
Eliminated from the Champions League in the fall, OM quickly got rid of this disappointment and brightened up the evenings of their supporters in the league for a long time, with a string of good results and great performances, until they snatched 2nd place in the standings at the January and to maintain the hope of titillating PSG in the title race.
A hope swept away last weekend following the success of the Ile-de-France residents on the Côte-d’Azur, which was the starting point of a nightmarish week for OM, which after leaving PSG in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, already saw himself as the big favorite of this competition and perhaps already saw himself lifting a trophy at the end of the season…
A dream which therefore evaporated on Wednesday evening at the end of a match with a crazy scenario and a penalty shoot-out which will surely leave its mark. But the Phocaeans must not procrastinate against the Bretons. Fifth in L1, only six points behind Marseille, the Rennais know that this is their last chance to hope to grab the C1 next year.
Bruno Genesio’s team, which is going through a more complicated year in 2023 than at the end of 2022, has been going through a zone of turbulence since the injury of its playing (and scoring) master, Martin Terrier. Since the resumption of the championship at the end of December, Rennes have conceded five defeats in ten games, after having conceded only two during the first fifteen days.
This Rennes – OM, between two clubs that are not doing as well but are still capable of anything, promises to sparkle. It’s up to OM to light the fuse first, while stopping the fire.
Rennes – ABOUTa meeting to follow this Sunday, from 8:45 p.m., live and in full on Tonic Radio Avignon et Tonic Radio Marseille with Yvon Marcellin to comments.
