Axel Allag, Media365: published on Tuesday January 14, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.
Contending for the Coupe de France title, this year again, OM have not won the oldest competition since 1989.
Every season, OM supporters hope, and every season, too, they end up disillusioned. Crowned for the last time in 2012, on the occasion of a Coupe de la Ligue which no longer exists since the 2020-2021 financial year, the Marseille club is still chasing an 11th title in the Coupe de France since its last one, obtained in 1989 during a crazy success against AS Monaco (4-3). Opposed to LOSC this Tuesday evening at the Orange Vélodrome (9:10 p.m.), the Marseille club must of course avoid an early exit as they play in front of their home crowd against tough opposition.
De Zerbi: “We want to win this Cup”
“We want to win this Cup, if you want to achieve that, you have to beat big teams, anyway. The gap between the first and third division teams is not that big. Maybe We will have simpler matches later, if we overcome the Lille obstacle. But at least we are warned. It's a difficult match for us, but also for Lille,” said Roberto De Zerbi on Monday. placed the Coupe de France as a competition “priority”, like Ligue 1.
Numerous misadventures against lower divisions
The Italian technician, who arrived last summer, was not one of OM's misadventures against teams from lower divisions (for example, the eliminations against Carquefou in 2008, Andrézieux-Bouthéon in 2019 and more recently Annecy in 2023). ) but its players are aware of their “responsibility” in the competition in the words of captain Leonardo Balerdi. “In the room, we have posters on the walls with all the trophies won by OM. Of course, all the players are aware of it, and it is in our minds. Today, in the championship, there are a certain gap with PSG, so we remain very focused on the Coupe de France.” Against LOSC this Tuesday evening, OM will play big.
