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

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  • Olympique de Marseille faces Olympiakos this Tuesday (9 p.m.) in the Champions League, a duel for a qualification in the Europa League.

  • André Villas Boas wonders about the course of OM in C1 without finding answers explaining this failure.

    “It's not an excuse anyway, we could do a lot better.

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A failure difficult to digest, and especially to explain.

Before facing Olympiakos in the Champions League, Tuesday at 9 p.m. for a duel for qualification in the Europa League, André Villas Boas and Boubacar Kamara returned to the catastrophic course of Olympique de Marseille, with still no goals and no points scored in this competition.

“Yeah, we did some shit.

You have to tell yourself and not hide.

It's also a source of motivation, you have to have self-esteem and give everything to win these two games, ”explained Boubacar Kamara.

Words that echo those of Florian Thauvin, last week who spoke of "shame", before the new defeat against Porto (0-2), without creating an electric shock within the workforce.

"A failure that I could never recover"

“We were in a group within our reach, but we made a lot of mistakes because of our naivety.

A lot of things went wrong, and it obviously has for me.

This course will remain a failure in my career, which I could never recover ”, regretted André Villas Boas.

#OMOLY was the last press conference at the Commanderie for @EBarranguet who will be leaving Marseille at the end of the year.

The players and staff gave him a signed jersey for the occasion.

Tomorrow's last match at the Vélodrome for Manu. @ OM_Officiel #TeamOM @afpfr pic.twitter.com/TLHzb4crWY

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For Boubacar Kamara, for whom this is the first time in the Champions League, has no real explanation for these poor performances.

" I do not know.

It is not the same level in the Champions League.

As soon as we make mistakes, we pay them cash and it shows.

But I do not know how to explain it, “conceded the midfielder.

"Perhaps the level of cultural requirement"

A question that André Villas Boas also asks: “I too am curious.

Why all the French teams except PSG suffer this type of impact.

Maybe it's a lack of experience.

Lyon and PSG have more experience and it was seen in the last Champions League.

In any case, the competitive gap is large.

It's curious, maybe it comes from the way of making the transfers, maybe the level of cultural requirement.

These are questions that I ask myself but I have not found the answers.

It's not an excuse anyway, we could do a lot better.

"

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