Despite defeat, OM fans "don't need to put a candle"

• OM broke a joker against Nantes on Saturday, but are keeping a good lead over their competitors.
  • Like the coach André Villas-Boas, the supporters remain generally optimistic to finish on the podium at the end of the season.

The honeymoon between André Villas-Boas and OM supporters continues. And some people have starry dreams. "We have to stay, André, and put a second star on the jersey," we heard during training open to the public this week at the Vélodrome. "Well, in reality, I realize that it will be complicated if only to pass the hens, relativizes Patrick, once past the emotion of a brief meeting with" AVB. But I hope he will campaign in the Champions League with us before leaving! "

OM would therefore be guaranteed to be qualified? Twelve days before the end of the championship, Marseille, which faces Nîmes this Friday (8.45 pm), is nine points ahead of Lille, fourth. "Nine points is nothing: three games lost, and it's over", launches the pessimist Anthony, who does not find the OM calendar as easy as it is claimed: "Nîmes has everything of the trap game , we then receive Paris, Monaco, we go to Lyon… ”

His stadium neighbor, Allel, is more reassuring from the height of his 66 years:

We have to put things into perspective: this defeat against Nantes (1-3) is a little bit of fatigue. I was part of the small group that had gone up to Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde in 1993 before the final… This year, I don't need to go to put a candle, the qualification for the Champions League is acquired ! "

A faith in the future shared by Vanessa, supporter of OM for 15 years, who moved from Paris to Marseille this year: “We had a blow against Nantes, it's true. But I really believe in this team, it will do it! "

Villas-Boas says it's not "misery"

"Anything can happen in this Ligue 1, by the end of the season," still reminded André Villas-Boas, Wednesday, at a press conference. But he, too, wanted to put the defeat against Nantes into perspective: "I said to the players:" After the victory at Saint-Etienne, we were happy to have widened the gap by 8 and 9 points over our pursuers. It is not when we return to this gap that we have to think that we are in misery, in sadness. ” "

The victory in Lille p-ê made us believe that the hard part was done, that things were written, that a form of success would accompany our steps. Back on violent ground but the # OM has just burned a joker and can get back in working order. Humility, play and determination. pic.twitter.com/0H1TxEdB6V

Clearly, the supporters are not: for a pessimist crossed these days in the streets of Marseille, we meet a dozen optimists: "Thauvin will make his return, Radonjic too ... I think it will be good for the second place, "says Jennifer, who admits that after the victory against Lille," we thought we were playing the title, that we could go get the first place at PSG ". The legendary Marseille moderation.

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