Gentlemen, fight the Portuguese, not your own fans…

To get back to the Champions League and to the Porto game, Marseille is everything but poised at the moment. Of course the staff will have you believe otherwise, with Eric Gerets saying how the Champions League is a reason for joy and nothing zelse and how he wants his players to have some fun on the pitch and how he trusts and loves them. But behind all the declarations, the particular way they have been talking to André Ayew (Abedi Pelé’s son who was the only player with some spirit against Lorient) the past two days would predict that the youngster will start alongside mamadou Niang on tuesday night. Gerets has been seen talking extensively to the kid all day so this may be the surprise to try to hurt Djibril Cissé’s pride and force him to work some more.
Just to show you how peaceful he’s been lately, here’s a video of Djibril picking a fight with one of the Marseillais fans that wa in Porto to welcome the team. They start exchanging amabilities that I don’t need to translate. This was this afternoon in Porto.