
Marseille's Champions League hopes hurt despite team bonding trip to Marbella
Marseille's hopes of qualifying directly for next season's Champions League took another hit with a 2-0 loss at Lorient in Ligue 1 on Saturday.
PARIS -- Marseille 's hopes of qualifying directly for next season's Champions League took another hit with a 2-0 loss at Lorient in Ligue 1 on Saturday. The top three teams earn direct entry and the side in fourth enters qualifying. Fourth-placed Marseille has lost three of the past four league games and will drop to sixth if Lyon and Rennes both win on Sunday, after which there will be four games left. Marseille goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli was scathing about his team's performance. "I would like to say a thousand bad things about us right now. I don't have the words to describe how I feel," Rulli told match broadcaster beIN SPORTS. "We deserved nothing. We have tried a lot of things this season and I don't know what else we can try." Team-bonding mission fails For the second time since taking charge, Habib Beye took his players to a team-bonding training camp in Marbella, Spain . W
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