Dimitri Payet asked to be replaced Wednesday at Parc OL after feeling a thigh alert. ROMAIN LAFABREGUE - AFP

  • Almost four months after their last misstep in an official match (13 wins and 3 draws since), the Marseillais were eliminated from the Coupe de France Wednesday in Lyon (1-0).
  • In addition to the end of the title dreams for this season, can this halt have consequences for a qualification in the Champions League for the current dolphin of PSG?
  • 20 Minutes takes stock, before a shock in Ligue 1, from Sunday in Lille (4th).

At Parc OL,

On October 30, South Africa was not yet world champion in rugby and Raymond Poulidor was still of this world. OM then disappeared from the Coupe de la Ligue in Monaco (2-1) in the round of 16 and no one imagined that a crazy series of 16 games without defeat would follow. 13 wins and 3 draws later, André Villas-Boas' men took their ease on the podium in Ligue 1 (2nd with nine points ahead of Losc, 4th) and could see the last four of the Cup of France. But this quest for Stade de France stopped Wednesday in Lyon after a dull "Olympico" (1-0).

"I want to congratulate the players on this series of invincibility which ends here," said the Marseille coach at the end of the meeting, aware of the possible overspeed which had been watching his group for almost four months. We are sad because it was our only chance to win a trophy. Impossible to contradict him on this, but how does his team react after this stoppage?

⚽ "All series have an end", relativizes Yohann Pelé after the elimination of OM in the quarter-final of the Coupe de France against OL. #OLOM #CDF pic.twitter.com/C5pyMWUMRZ

- France tv sport (@francetvsport) February 12, 2020

"Disappointed but far from being shot" before the shock in Lille?

"We wanted to win a trophy for the supporters and for the club, of course," said Kevin Strootman, who was established at OL Park on Wednesday. We lacked creativity and energy. But the match in Lille on Sunday is more important for us to go to the Champions League. Is this key meeting in the quest for direct qualification for the most prestigious European Cup a bad time, four days after a setback at its main rival?

"Not at all," says Valentin Rongier. We had to know that it was going to happen one day. We would have liked it to be for another game. We try to see positive things, even if there are not many tonight. We will be able to concentrate fully on the championship. And since we will only have one match per week, that will allow us to breathe a bit. It's up to us to consolidate our second place on Sunday. "It is a series that ends in the Coupe de France and not in the championship, subtly completes Bouna Sarr. We are disappointed but far from being dejected. "

Does this OM unbeaten for three months have a foothold in the Champions League? https://t.co/rRllLpVnIf

- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) February 6, 2020

A simple alert for the key man Dimitri Payet?

Can these Marseillais in search of rebound be guided from Sunday by their captain Dimitri Payet? Less in sight in Lyon than in Saint-Etienne and against Toulouse the previous week, the playmaker with 11 goals and 5 assists this season (all competitions combined) mainly had to be replaced by Marley Aké in the 73rd minute of play Before the exams that will take place this Thursday, André Villas-Boas was rather reassuring in Lyon: "It's not much, I think it's okay. As we released when he felt the micro-lesion, the contracture, I think it will be fine for Lille ”. Marseille supporters can cross their fingers as there is an OM with and an OM without Payet this season.

#LateFC #OLOM

🗨️ "It's not much. I think it's okay"

No worrying injury for Dimitri Payet according to André Villas-Boas 🗣️🎙️ pic.twitter.com/CJZf3ylwJ8

- Late Football Club (@LateFootClub) February 12, 2020

Too little staff to keep up?

Even before this little muscular alert for Dimitri Payet, OM's workforce seemed very limited for this quarter-final of the Coupe de France in Lyon. Due to the absence of Caleta-Car, Amavi (suspended), Radonjic, Benedetto and of course Thauvin (injured), there were only young people from the training center on the bench.

9 players from the training center in the OM group to face Lyon in @coupedefrance:

◾ Dia 🇫🇷 (26)
◾ Abdallah 🇰🇲 (20)
◾ Kamara 🇫🇷 (20)
◾ Nkounkou 🇫🇷 (19)
◾ Perrin 🇫🇷 (21)
◾ Bertelli 🇫🇷 (16)
◾ Chabrolle 🇫🇷 (21)
◾ Lopez 🇫🇷 (22)
◾ Aké 🇫🇷 (19) #OLOM | #TeamOM pic.twitter.com/sCklSz6ekM

- Charles (@charles_cms) February 11, 2020

So much so that André Villas-Boas tried to return to the score at the end of the match with a barely compatible C1 attack line made up of Chabrolle, Khaoui, Aké and Germain. After the success (0-2) in Saint-Etienne last week, Valentin Rongier, lucid, announced: "We know, we do not have a very strong workforce, we are chaining the games, there is fatigue, but we will not let go until the end. Seven years after the last Marseille participation, the reunion with the Champions League will have to be earned.

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