Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Wednesday January 15, 2025 at 10:14 a.m.
Eliminated by Lille in the round of 16, OM remains cursed in the Coupe de France, a competition that has eluded them for 36 years.
Failed again! In search of an 11th Coupe de France since 1989, OM will still not win it this season, after being eliminated by LOSC in the round of 16 on Tuesday evening at the Orange Vélodrome (1-1, 3-4 tab ). Hakon Haraldsson opened the scoring for the Dogues after the hour mark (68th), before Luis Henrique equalized with a sumptuous strike at the end of added time (90th + 6). But the Brazilian then missed his shot on goal, like Jonathan Rowe, against an excellent Vito Mannone.
One last trophy with… Deschamps
A new frustrating elimination for the Phocéens, very upset against the refereeing of Clément Turpin, like the sports director Mehdi Benatia, expelled after the equalizing goal. But that will not change anything at the end of this meeting, and the fact that OM risks experiencing another blank season, while its last trophy dates back to 2012, and the victory in the now defunct Coupe de la Ligue, when Didier Deschamps was still on the bench. For Roberto De Zerbi, 13th (!) coach of the Marseille club since the departure of the current coach of the Blues, there are inevitably “a lot of regrets”.
De Zerbi is “sad”
“I'm sad not to be qualified, because we deserved it. And it was an objective of the club”, continued the Italian technician at a press conference, explaining that we had to “start again with full force. We only have the championship and we have to keep pushing, that’s the goal, and for that we have to win every match.” Adrien Rabiot, who was in the last final of the Provençal club in the competition, in 2016, but on the PSG side, 4-2 winner of his rival, tried to be positive at the microphone of beIN Sports: “We took this match seriously , and until the end we pushed we had opportunities to kill this match, I have nothing to blame the guys It comes down to penalties… But we have to stay motivated, which is what we do. made in this moment is very good.” Solid runners-up to the Parisians, the Marseillais will now have to bounce back on Sunday against Strasbourg.
