After the sinking Saturday in Reims (3-1), the 3rd defeat immediately of OM, Roberto de Zerbi decided to tighten his management by punishing his players. As revealed by Provence, its first measure was to keep them at the Robert-Louis-Dreyfus center. When they arrived at Marseille-Marignane airport, the players, who spoke for long minutes in the changing rooms of the Auguste-Delaune stadium, did not return home and therefore spent the night at the training center.
If two days of rest were initially planned, this Sunday and Monday, the Italian coach decided to remove them. The group therefore trained this Sunday at the Commandery before the eyes of their President Pablo Longoria and the director of football, Mehdi Benatia.
This is not the first time this season that Roberto de Zerbi has chosen the stick strategy to wake up his team which no longer shows much on the field. In November, he took his group to cohesion internship in Mallemort. It had worked rather well, the OM consolidating its place as Dauphin of PSG. But since this weekend, it is 3rd and the competitors are growing behind. Marseille will not have the right to make mistakes next Sunday against Toulouse at the Vélodrome before going to Monaco.