Returning from an injury for the game against Tottenham, Eric Bailly had been out for two weeks prior to his start in the Champions League.
The Manchester United loanee was nursing his second setback of the season, previously missing three weeks after pulling up against Eintracht Frankfurt in the same competition.
He then returned, only to get injured again, and was not rushed back, kept by Igor Tudor to ensure he could play against Spurs in a vital game.
Well, that backfired entirely, as the Manchester United man lasted a whole eight minutes before sitting down and being taken off, once again holding his thigh.
He was replaced by Samuel Gigot, who produced a fine display, but La Provence in France are wondering what could have been if Bailly, described has having ‘feet of clay’, had remained fit.
Marseille threw away a 1-0 lead to lose 2-1 in the dying minutes of the game, and there is a feeling the Manchester United loanee’s experience could have gone a long way in helping prevent that.
The newspaper then ask a very vital question of how long Bailly will now be out for, after his previous five weeks out for two different injuries.
With games against Lyon and Monaco on the horizon, losing the Manchester United defender is a blow, and there are now questions of whether he will even be in Marseille next year.
They say ‘it would be silly that the former protégé of Hervé Renard doesn’t taste Champions League football next year, if he stays’.
These injury issues are part of the reason he never succeeded at Manchester United, and now Marseille are the ones living through it.
