{"id":312201,"date":"2011-03-15T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/didier-deschamps-blames-poor-marseille-finishing-for-defeat-to-manchester-united-in-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:39:00","slug":"didier-deschamps-blames-poor-marseille-finishing-for-defeat-to-manchester-united-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/didier-deschamps-blames-poor-marseille-finishing-for-defeat-to-manchester-united-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Deschamps blames poor Marseille finishing for defeat to Manchester United in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Gill Clark<\/h3>\n<h4>15 Mar 2011 22:39:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"69.4482758621\">\n<div readability=\"13.3818181818\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ligue 1 : Didier Deschamps (Olympique de Marseille)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/70f7071c125903_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ligue 1 : Didier Deschamps (Olympique de Marseille)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"39.0405482581\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/france\/57\/olympique-de-marseille\">Marseille<\/a> coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/france\/12806\/didier-deschamps\">Didier Deschamps<\/a> was left to rue his side\u2019s profligacy in front of goal after crashing out of the Champions League 2-1 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Hernandez was the match-winner scoring a brace for the hosts, even though a Wes Brown own goal gave the visitors late hope and set up a nervy finish. <\/p>\n<p>However, the French champions did have their chances in the game with both Andre-Pierre Gignac and Souleymane Diawara guilty of missing good openings in the first half.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Asked after the game whether Marseille would have qualified if they had taken their chances, Deschamps told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>: \u201cI am sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it was not a big Manchester United performance tonight. We started not very well, in the first half of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have got young players and it was difficult at Old Trafford but after that my players did well and we had opportunities, good occasions, but we didn\u2019t score and then to be 2-0 down it was more complicated for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hosts had problems in defence before and during the match with both Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic missing the game entirely through injury before John O\u2019Shea and Rafael were forced off during the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deschamps admitted that whilst the injuries had given Marseille hope they simply couldn\u2019t do enough to oust a weakened United side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the players, and me as well, felt it was possible because Manchester United were not really fit physically,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course a lot of players missed this game through injury, so it was not the best Manchester United team. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried but it was not enough for us today.\u201d <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_199.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\/2011\/03\/15\/2396399\/didier-deschamps-blames-poor-marseille-finishing-for-defeat\" title=\"Didier Deschamps blames poor Marseille finishing for defeat to Manchester United in Champions League\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didier Deschamps blames poor Marseille finishing for defeat to Manchester United in Champions League<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Gill Clark 15 Mar 2011 22:39:00 Ligue 1 : Didier Deschamps (Olympique de Marseille) Related Links Teams Players Marseille coach Didier Deschamps was left to rue his side\u2019s profligacy in front of goal after crashing out of the Champions League 2-1 to Manchester United at Old Trafford. Javier Hernandez was the match-winner scoring a brace for the hosts, even though a Wes Brown own goal gave the visitors late hope and set up a nervy finish. However, the French champions did have their chances in the game with both Andre-Pierre Gignac and Souleymane Diawara guilty of missing good openings in the first half. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Didier Deschamps blames poor Marseille finishing for defeat to Manchester United in Champions League - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/didier-deschamps-blames-poor-marseille-finishing-for-defeat-to-manchester-united-in-champions-league\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Didier Deschamps blames poor Marseille finishing for defeat to Manchester United in Champions League - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Gill Clark 15 Mar 2011 22:39:00 Ligue 1 : Didier Deschamps (Olympique de Marseille) Related Links Teams Players Marseille coach Didier Deschamps was left to rue his side\u2019s profligacy in front of goal after crashing out of the Champions League 2-1 to Manchester United at Old Trafford. 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