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Paris Saint-Germain's Antoine Kombouare: Olympique de Marseille beat us because they were more aggressive
The Parisian club's head coach was disappointed with their heavy loss against OM and felt that losing all the 50-50 battles cost them the game
Nov 28, 2011 7:37:00 AM
By Stefan Coerts
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Paris Saint-Germain coach Antoine Kombouare has voiced his disappointment with his side's heavy 3-0 Ligue 1 away loss to Olympique de Marseille on Sunday evening.
"We are really down following the loss, but bravo to Marseille. They played the match they had to," Kombouare was quoted as saying on the official Ligue 1 website.
Loic Remy, Morgan Amalfitano and Andre Ayew helped Marseille to a comfortable home win and Kombouare felt his side lacked the aggression to really trouble their opponents.
"I was disappointed after the first half and when they opened the scoring. I thought it was against the run of play and felt they didn't really deserve to be ahead," he said.
"The second half left me a bit sour, we had plenty of time to get back into the game. But we lost all the 50-50's and when you start to lose out physically, it becomes very hard. OM were sometimes on the edge of what is allowed on the pitch, but that is football."
PSG has dropped to second spot in Ligue following the weekend's results.
"We are really down following the loss, but bravo to Marseille. They played the match they had to," Kombouare was quoted as saying on the official Ligue 1 website.
Loic Remy, Morgan Amalfitano and Andre Ayew helped Marseille to a comfortable home win and Kombouare felt his side lacked the aggression to really trouble their opponents.
"I was disappointed after the first half and when they opened the scoring. I thought it was against the run of play and felt they didn't really deserve to be ahead," he said.
"The second half left me a bit sour, we had plenty of time to get back into the game. But we lost all the 50-50's and when you start to lose out physically, it becomes very hard. OM were sometimes on the edge of what is allowed on the pitch, but that is football."
PSG has dropped to second spot in Ligue following the weekend's results.
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