Mancunian Phil Foden dribbles the Marseille defense, Tuesday, October 27.

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  • Olympique de Marseille fell heavily 3-0 Tuesday night at the Stade Vélodrome against Manchester City in the Champions League.

  • For Florian Thauvin, the Champions League "is another level, you have to be honest".

  • The Marseillais only framed two shots during the whole match.

At the Velodrome stadium,

It was the fear of many, it seems to take shape after only two days.

Olympique de Marseille was punished 3-0 by Manchester City on Tuesday evening at the Stade Vélodrome, for the second day of the Champions League.

A second defeat in two days after that received last week in Greece by Olympiakos (1-0), which questions the level of OM at European level.

Even if it is necessary to relativize: the Marseillais faced Tuesday evening one of the favorites of the competition.

Florian Thauvin, who failed to exist for most of the match except on a nice dry shot (54th) deflected by Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson, is a bit of a symbol of this helplessness.

While he has made a good start to the season.

“Unfortunately we did not manage to set up what we wanted.

It's another level, you have to be honest.

When we spend the whole match 30m from our goal and there is still 70m to go to score, it's hard to have the legs.

We will have to progress in the use of the ball, ”admitted Florian Thauvin at the microphone of

RMC Sport

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"We must do better, coach includes"

OM players defended rather well and Manchester City did not prove to be more dangerous than that: one on two occasions in the first half, three or four in the second.

But the Marseillais have been greatly outclassed.

“It's a team that has a lot of talent, they have shown that they are superior.

The score is what it is, we ran a lot, defended a lot but that was not enough, ”Steve Mandanda was a bit fatalistic.

"It's been seven years that we have not participated in the Champions League, we must all learn together", wanted to positively Florian Thauvin.

Hey Mourad, how was the match?

Uh ... Look at Marseille, it was the oranges down there.

Well, they lost but if the 26 scores a goal of 50 meters, who knows?

#OMMCI pic.twitter.com/Tqi7mqHkW5

- Mourad (@MouradAerts) October 28, 2020

André Villas Boas also recognized that there was still a long way to go.

“He's a higher level opponent, but that's also why we wanted to qualify for the Champions League.

This is the first experience in this competition for many players, we have to gain experience and do better.

Coach included.

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Experience or not, Marseille players can still harbor certain regrets.

Starting with the fact of having scuttled oneself with this bad delivery from Valentin Rongier to Caleta Car, offering the goal to Citizens who did not ask for so much.

"You take a goal like that, you hurt yourself," admitted Villas Boas, although he preferred to explain that Rongier wanted to come out cleanly.

Two shots on target

There where the shoe pinches, and especially for the Marseillais supporters, it is still the little offensive animation offered by a team which only framed two shots in 90 minutes.

Unfortunate when your motto is “Straight to the point”.

OM have still not scored in the Champions League this season.

“We could have done better in the use of the ball.

We fought with our weapons, we could have tried to play more maybe, but we do not know how it would have happened, ”noted Steve Mandanda who still conceded three.

For Villas Boas, it was out of the question to offer a more offensive formation against Pep Guardiola.

"If you play four in defense, they'll come in."

At five, you control the width more.

But it's nothing new, it's a team that has possession of the balls, you can have one, two or three chances in the game and that's it.

But it's the same for all opponents.

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Except that OM had not offered much more in their first match against Olympiakos.

"The double confrontation against Porto will be decisive, we did not expect to obtain a point against City", preferred to reassure André Villas Boas.

And above all, we must not be satisfied with so little if OM want to avoid repeating the 0 points of 2013/2014.

This is the ambition of Mandanda, already present during this sad record for a French club: “Already we must take points.

This is the first objective, then we will see for the rest.

“Because with eleven defeats in a row, OM are only one game away from a new sad record.

Damn sad when you know the importance of the C1 in Marseille.

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