At the Velodrome stadium,
A visibly annoyed Jorge Sampaoli at a press conference, at the height of the disappointment of the Marseillais. Olympique de Marseille failed to win Thursday night against Galatasaray for the second day of the Europa League (0-0), and conceded their second draw in as many games. A result again annoying as OM should have won, after the cruel equalizer conceded at the end of the match against Lokomotiv (1-1) 15 days ago.
“Of course our team deserved six points after these two games. We were superior in Moscow, and tonight against Galatasaray. We deserved better, we deserve to have six points tonight, ”conceded an expeditious Jorge Sampaoli at a press conference.
A decision to drive Longoria mad
The first half of the Marseillais was the carbon copy of that against Lens, Sunday, with a less dangerous opponent. Under could have opened the scoring with a delight of curled up from the left (35th), but it was ultimately the Turkish supporters who set the match on fire. With a shower of smoke and agricultural bombs thrown in the north turn, making players jealous of their precision. To the point of forcing the referee to interrupt the match for ten minutes.
What finally woke up the Marseillais for the last ten minutes of the first half, and especially the second. But neither Dieng twice (48th and 51st), nor Saliba of the head (59th), nor Under at close range (69th), managed to free the Marseillais and their supporters still at the height of the meeting. It is finally Mr. Raczkowski who could have unblocked the situation, indicating the penalty spot for a fault at the extreme limit of the surface on Mattéo Guendouzi (75th), still among the best Wednesday night. But after consulting the VAR, the Polish referee changed his mind when he did not seem to have made such an obvious error in judgment in his first decision. This quite annoyed the phlegmatic President Longoria, mad with rage at the final whistle.
“We are going to win in Rome and we will be able to talk more calmly”
Cruel for the Marseillais, who despite the first minutes of the season of Arkadiuz Milik, have never managed to deceive the Turks well in place, but quite harmless. “The team gave everything, we had some confusion in the way out of the ball, we lacked precision in front, but I’m still happy with the effort made by the team,” Jorge Sampaoli was satisfied. “We played to win today, we have the chances, we had the ball all the time, we did the things we worked on all week. But football is like that, ”also analyzed Alvaro.
Except that OM go on to a third game without a win, after a draw against Angers, a defeat against Lens and this new draw. And only two points, no offense to Sampaoli, before the double confrontation against Lazio. “We did everything to win, the team is confident and in Rome we will reproduce the same thing, we will win and we will be able to speak more calmly”, reassured the Spanish defender. In the meantime, the match against Lille looms on Sunday, and the Marseillais will have to return to victory, before a well-deserved break.
