Andre Villas Boas in the match against Manchester City, in the Champions League group stage.

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  • Olympique de Marseille lost 3-0 on Tuesday night at the Stade Vélodrome when Manchester City received the second day of the Champions League.

  • André Villas Boas was annoyed after the match when journalists asked him about his tactical choices.

At the Velodrome stadium,

A 3-5-2, or 5-3-2, usually problematic for Guardiola, but not against OM.

André Villas Boas, the coach of Olympique de Marseille, had chosen a 5-3-2 in the defensive phase, and 3-5-2 in the offensive phase during OM's heavy 3-0 defeat against Manchester City on Tuesday evening at the Stade Vélodrome.

A tactic that paid off for Olympique Lyonnais in their victory against the Citizens in the last Final 8 in Lisbon.

"A coach of Olympique de Marseille should never be inspired by what OL is doing," Villas Boas had fun with journalists in the pre-match conference.

The tone was much less pleasant when it came to explaining his choices after the loss on Tuesday night.

"No, not at all," he said irritably at the microphone of

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 when asked if he regretted some of his choices.

“In City's last ten games, eight teams have played five.

If you play four, they will break through.

We wanted to seek depth, and speed behind the back of the defense, ”he tried to justify himself at a press conference.

"You massacred me"

And the Portuguese coach always seemed so disillusioned when the question of regrets arose again: “The last time we wanted to play against a team of this level, we took four and you massacred me.

I think for you all the choices I'm making right now are all bad.

I have this frank report with you, but it should not be abused.

»Atmosphere.

At the end of the match, however, the players regretted not having been able to offer anything else.

"When we spend the whole match 30 meters from our goal and there are 70 meters to go to score, it's hard to have the legs", regretted Florian Thauvin.

When Mandanda wondered: “We could have tried to play more maybe, but we don't know how it would have been.

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"Marseille does not have the money to bring Guardiola"

If he does not hesitate to always defend his “exceptional” players in the media, although for the moment unable to raise their level of play for the Champions League, André Villas Boas preferred to recall a few truths… “City is City, they also spent $ 1 billion in five years.

It's a team that plays very well, with a coach who is a phenomenon.

Who plays possession, who has always played it with Bayern, with Barcelona, ​​with City.

Unfortunately Marseille does not have the money to bring Guardiola here.

If you have Guardiola, maybe one day you will have possession, unfortunately you have AVB with this tactic and he tries to do the best for the team, ”he said.

Atmosphere, atmosphere.

Each season, teams all over Europe prove that you can have an "average" workforce but offer ambitious football but you still have people talking about "lack of money" to justify insipid performances

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Hopefully all these little people will regain confidence for the double confrontation against Porto from next Tuesday, decisive if OM wants to hang the round of 16 which are moving further and further away, or at least the Europa League.

"It's the last chance game, we have to do better, it's the Champions League, it's been seven years since we took part, we must all learn together," warned Florian Thauvin.

Opinion shared by coach Villas Boas: “This is the first experience in the Champions League for many players, we must gain experience and do better, coach included.

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