HISTORIC COLLAPSE: MARSEILLE RELIVED NIGHTMARE AFTER 2011

French Ligue 1 team Marseille started the new season with a complete nightmare. The rooted club, which entered the season with great hopes and an ambitious squad under the management of French head coach Bruno Genesio, created a huge disappointment by collecting only three points in the first five weeks. Marseille, which could not get the desired results from the pitch and fell far below expectations in terms of gameplay, rapidly descended to the lower ranks in the standings and settled in the dangerous zone. The French football press brought this dramatic fall experienced by the team to their pages with statistics. According to the striking figures put forward by sports data analysts, Marseille fell into the relegation zone at such an advanced stage of a season for the first time since the two thousand eleven and twelve season. In that period, which was quite dark in terms of club history, Marseille fell to the twentieth place by collecting only three points in the first six matches it played, but managed to complete the season in the tenth place by recovering in the following weeks. At the point reached today, Bruno Genesio's students felt a similar crisis severely at an early stage. The incredible fragility of the team in defense and the massive productivity problem in attack deeply shook the fans' trust in the technical committee. Especially the heavy defeats suffered at home increased the dose of protests against the management. French sports authorities brought this historic collapse to television screens with detailed analyses. The absence of the enthusiastic attacking football that Genesio promised when taking charge became the focal point of the criticism. The heavy psychological pressure of being in the relegation zone completely destroyed the self-confidence of the players on the pitch. It was claimed that the management could take radical decisions soon. Fans waited anxiously.

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