OM - Paris FC: Tensions at all levels before a match like no other
After a week marked by the Rabiot affair, OM is already under pressure for the visit of Paris FC, this Saturday (5 p.m.) during the 2nd day of Ligue 1.
By Laurent Pruneta and Xavier Condamine , correspondent in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)It's a first since April 5, 2015. The away end of the Stade Vélodrome will welcome Parisian supporters, those of Paris FC . There will only be around a hundred of them, and PFC is not PSG . In Marseille, the identity of this Saturday's opponent (5 p.m.), even if it comes from the capital, is met with only polite indifference. "We're still Paris in our name, but it's been 46 years since Paris FC was in Ligue 1. To have Clasicos, Olympicos, there still have to be rehearsals, so I don't think we can talk about Clasicos," defused Stéphane Gilli, the Paris FC coach.
If the context promises to be explosive in front of the 64,000 spectators at the Vélodrome, it's not because of the newly promoted Parisian. In Marseille, the week has obviously been punctuated by the Rabiot affair, at the heart of all the debates. Through the media, the Olympian leaders, the player's mother and advisor each gave their version of the events that took place in the locker room, after the defeat at Rennes (0-1) . "They're lying," thundered Véronique Rabiot in La Provence , violently attacking Pablo Longoria, Mehdi Benatia and Roberto de Zerbi. "I thought we had experienced the worst with PSG. But no, there's even stronger! There, they are truly forever the first, they are doing better," she added.
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