Olympique de Marseille has gone from an ideal start to its first genuine results crisis in the space of three weeks. After opening the 2026-27 Ligue 1 season with a 4-0 win over Strasbourg, Bruno Génésio’s team lost three straight matches against Monaco (2-0), Paris FC (3-2) and Rennes (1-0). The run leaves OM with only three points from 12 and 13th in the table after four rounds.
What’s Going Wrong at Marseille—and Can They Fix It?
After opening the season with a 4-0 victory, Olympique de Marseille has lost three consecutive league games and collected only three points from 12. Poor finishing and costly mistakes have emerged as two central problems for Bruno Génésio’s team.
The sequence is concerning for more than the results alone. Marseille has scored just twice across its last three league matches and failed to find the net in two of them. Its away problems also predate this season: during the 2026 calendar year, OM has lost seven of its 11 Ligue 1 away games and failed to score in six, among the worst records in the competition.
Those numbers help explain why the opening 4-0 win over Strasbourg now looks increasingly isolated. Against Monaco, Marseille had more possession but created little threat and lost 2-0. It then scored twice against Paris FC but still suffered another defeat. At Rennes, the performance improved, but the result did not.
Poor finishing and costly mistakes
After the 1-0 loss at Rennes, Génésio highlighted a first half in which his team pressed high, recovered the ball and created opportunities, but regretted its inability to convert them. That lack of efficiency has become one of the clearest themes of the current run.
The other issue is what happens when Marseille fails to take those chances. OM has conceded six goals across the three defeats. After the Paris FC loss, Génésio was critical of the number of significant mistakes his team had made. Against Rennes, Marseille created opportunities to take the lead but was punished by Adrien Thomasson’s goal early in the second half.
The start also increases pressure on the new coach. Génésio, appointed on July 1 following Habib Beye’s departure, is the first Marseille manager since Ivan Marković in 1977 to lose three of his first four Ligue 1 matches in charge.
Can Marseille turn it around?
There are signs that the problems may be fixable. The display at Rennes was more competitive than the one in Monaco, and Génésio stressed that his side is creating opportunities. The improvement, however, now needs to produce points.
The schedule offers little breathing room. Marseille visits Beşiktaş on September 17 in the UEFA Europa League before hosting Paris Saint-Germain in Le Classique three days later.
Cutting out costly mistakes and converting more of the chances it is already producing represents the clearest route out of a run that, only four games into the season, has already made Génésio’s first campaign a significant test.
