Porto-OM's express debrief (3-0) -

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  • Olympique de Marseille suffered a third consecutive defeat in the Champions League on Tuesday in Porto (3-0).

  • For Steve Mandanda as for André Villas-Boas, the Marseillais were "ridiculous".

  • For Steve Mandanda, the players are the first to blame for this situation.

At the Dragon stadium in Porto,

Olympique de Marseille were once again outclassed in the Champions League, this time by FC Porto who easily won in their Dragon stadium for the third day of the Champions League.

More than the line almost drawn on the round of 16 of the competition, it is the level of play offered by the Marseillais which is the most worrying.

“Ridiculous”, the word released by captain Steve Mandanda, and by coach André Villas-Boas perfectly sums up the service offered by OM players against Porto, and more generally since the start of the Champions League.

“We will have to question ourselves, we are simply not at the level of this competition.

There are three games left and we must try to show another face because here we are bordering on ridiculous, ”Steve Mandanda did not mince words.

"This defeat is because of our own mistakes"

"We took dear, our goal now remains to polish our image, because for the moment, it is ridiculous," said André Villas-Boas in the post-match conference.

And unfortunately the matches follow and look the same, after being punished stupidly at the end of the match at Olympiakos (1-0), and swept away by Manchester City (3-0) at home.

Blame it on the players or on AVB?

For the Portuguese coach, this new defeat is explained by individual errors.

“We killed ourselves.

This defeat is because of our own individual mistakes, and that was already the case at Olympiakos and against City.

It's our responsibility, we made a lot of mistakes, it's not because the opponent was better, ”André Villas-Boas was annoyed.

An analysis shared by its captain: “We will measure our words because there is no frustration, there is more anger, a lot of disappointment, a lot of negative feelings that emerge.

We take stupid goals that kill us in the entry matches.

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They have courage!

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Caleta-Car's poor recovery at the start of the match gave Marega the first goal (4th), then Payet who had the opportunity to get his team back on track finally completely scuttled him by sending his penalty into the stands.

But all the players were far too weak to hope for a victory against Porto, yet not at best at the start of the season.

"It's up to us, the players, to do what is necessary"

“There are things to say that we have to say to each other that I don't want to say tonight.

Now we have to assume.

The coach takes a lot, he protects us a lot but whatever the scheme, the organization, it's up to us players to do what is necessary.

On the first leg of the Champions League, we did not do it.

We must assume, we must not hide, we are responsible for this first phase which is simply rotten, ”warned Steve Mandanda very lucid about the situation.

Asked about his choices, André Villas-Boas who appeared really downhearted after this defeat, assumed to have established some players like Dimitri Payet, very, very far from his level.

“I spoke with Dario [Benedetto], Morgan [Sanson] and Dimitri [Payet].

We're looking, we're going to need them and it's up to me to help them get back into shape.

But they are the first to recognize that they are not up to par.

It's up to me to motivate the team to show more desire, more motivation and put more intensity, ”he explained.

Perhaps by giving the chance to other players like Michael Cuisance, author of a good entry, or to Pape Geye who has been quite solid since the start of the season?

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