Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Saturday November 9, 2024 at 10:22 a.m.
Obviously happy with the result, Djibril Cissé still had a pang in his heart and couldn't hide it.
OM – AJA (1-3) was a special match Friday evening for Djibril Cissé, attackers coach for the second season in a row at Auxerre, his training club, but who was therefore traveling to his favorite team with whom he also played during his career (from 2006 to 2008). At the end of the meeting and despite his functions within the Burgundian club, he did not hesitate to draw up a very harsh observation towards the Marseillais and revealed (for our colleagues from L'Equipe) to have discussed in an animated manner with Adrien Rabiot, Elye Wahi and Amine Harit: “Even if I take the three points, seeing OM in this situation hurts my heart, it remains a club that I support and that I love. I I therefore asked them to remobilize, to play their role as captains and leaders in the locker room, not to give up and to fight to turn the situation around, because OM cannot stay like this.” A rather rare involvement on the part of an adversary, even if we understood the context well.
“De Zerbi was quite excited”
Djibril Cissé also does not hesitate to give his opinion on the poverty of Marseille's game: “I was quite surprised, I expected a little more. We must also take our hats off, we played the shot really well in a middle block, and not low. But yes, I thought we would face more intensity and pressure. We scored early, it cooled them down. For the former international, second top scorer in AJA history with 90 goals (behind Andrzej Szarmach's 100 goals), Wahi's opportunity to return to 2-3 could have changed everything: “He must crossing her on the ground, it's easier for Donovan Léon to make the save because he puts her at goalkeeper level. If he scores, it would have been a little hotter for us.”
Still delighting in the presence in his squad of Hamed Junior Traoré, who according to him has the level to play “in many Ligue 1 clubs, including OM”, Djibril Cissé also saw a Roberto De Zerbi “quite excited and unhappy in particular with Lilian Brassier”: “He asked him to find passes that break the lines and he didn't do it, moreover he paid the price because he went out”.
