‘leaving Marseille can help us mentally’ – OM turn to Marbella training camp to salvage faltering season | OneFootball

Olympique de Marseille will spend the week in Marbella as head coach Habib Beye attempts to halt the club’s alarming downturn and restore belief within his squad. Friday’s 2-0 defeat to Brest exposed once more a side lacking cohesion, intensity and conviction.The decision to head to southern Spain was taken jointly by Beye and the club’s hierarchy, with the aim of removing the group from the increasingly heavy atmosphere surrounding La Commanderie. Similar mid-season retreats in recent years have provided short-term resets, but this trip carries greater urgency.“We’ve lost confidence between ourselves,” admitted goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli to L’Équipe post-match following defeat to Brest . “I hope this week in Spain helps us find solutions. Leaving La Commanderie, leaving Marseille, can help us mentally.”Having overseen just one full training session so far, Beye plans to “take refuge in work” and implement his methodology during a rare uninterrupted week on the training ground.L’Équipe report that a focus will be on athletic density. Marseille’s data at Brest once again highlighted physical inferiority. Against Strasbourg the previous week, eight of the ten highest-distance runners were opposition players. For a side seeking greater verticality and sharper transitions, the numbers are damning.Les Olympiens will return to Marseille 48 hours before facing Lyon in one of the biggest matches of their season in the race for Champions League qualification. This is before Marseille face another crunch match in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France the following midweek against Toulouse.GFFN | George Boxall