While Roberto De Zerbi complained about various “controversies” and “people” who do not wish OM well, Daniel Riolo criticized this Tuesday evening in After Foot this strategy of “alone against everyone”.
“What are you referring to?” Rather calm in recent weeks, Roberto De Zerbi raised his voice again this Tuesday, on the eve of the reception of Angers in Ligue 1 (Wednesday at 9:05 p.m.). After two defeats in a row, the OM coach complained about “controversies” emerging and “people” who would harm his team.
“Me in Marseille, I laugh, it makes me want to laugh at all these controversies. These are really people who don’t like OM, who are always against us so I let it go. We have to stay concentrated and focused on what matters, and it’s not the words or what people say but the matches. The controversies against Pavard, against Emerson, against the club, against everyone… I think things are going well, maybe these two last matches, it pissed off people with these defeats, but these are things that happen,” explained the Italian coach at a press conference.
“It’s not worthy of a guy who runs a club like OM”
This speech did not really please Daniel Riolo, who recalls that the media were not alarmist after Marseille’s two defeats against Sporting and against Lens. “What controversies are you talking about? There is a lot of goodwill, very little controversy around OM at the moment. We are excited when they seem to be the rivals (of PSG) that the French championship needs, there is calm when they string together two defeats – not nice. I don’t understand. I thought he had found an emotional stabilizer. Two weeks ago, people said that De Zerbi was calm. That he was done with this excitement, this fire, this exaggeration, this emotion on edge… We asked for this calm because it helps in this context with a lot of tension When it comes out like that with this tone, it no longer has the stabilizer”, he indicated in. l’After Foot this Tuesday on RMC.
Before dwelling on this well-known strategy of “alone against all”. “Culturally in Italy, this thing exists. Italian coaches have a very complicated relationship with the media. We like this thing of ‘alone against all’. (…) Maybe he is driven by this cultural side. But here, for him to come and do this sketch for us when he has just lost two matches? The criticism would be fueled by people who don’t like OM? But Roberto, what do we care? Who doesn’t like OM? In which media was there anything? (…) Your press conference today is really not serious. It’s not worthy of a guy who runs a club like OM,” added the editorialist.
After a week marked by two short defeats away, OM will strive to keep a cool head to try to regain a positive dynamic from the reception of Angers, Wednesday, during the 10th day of Ligue 1. Cold, with a few days of hindsight, De Zerbi and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, both present in front of the press on Tuesday, once again promised that OM remained calm. “We are calm because we are doing things the right way. But in the last two matches, something was missing. At the finish, or a little nastiness in the duels. We also made some errors, like Emerson’s simulation or Pavard’s penalty”, admitted “RDZ”, who also highlighted the number of injuries in his squad.
