Olympique de Marseille holds the record for the number of European finals and remains the only French club to have won the Champions League. And soon the first holder of the Europa League Conference, the brand new “C4”, created in the off-season by UEFA? To achieve this, the Phocaeans must eliminate, Thursday April 28 at 9 p.m., the Dutch of Feyenoord Rotterdam, third in the championship of the Netherlands, scorers of Partizan Belgrade and Slavia Prague. A meeting to follow live on franceinfo.fr.
OM has the wind in its sails. On the pitch, Marseille can boast of having certainties, on the strength of its series of ten victories in the last eleven games. But many have been narrow and if OM often have control of the game, as their coach wants, they don’t always have a lot of margin or brilliance.
A great opportunity to go all the way. Difficult to identify a favorite in this competition, with in addition to OM and Feyenoord, Leicester City and AS Roma in the last four. “We play to go to the end. The C4 does not have the prestige of the C1 or the C3, but it remains a European Cup and a trophy to win”warned goalkeeper Steve Mandanda. “This club, this city, these people need to win something”added club coach Jorge Sampaoli last December, whose team, second in the league, can no longer come back to PSG, crowned champions last weekend.
The formidable atmosphere of the Kuip in Rotterdam. The excesses of Batavian supporters have already earned their leaders a fine of 500,000 euros. The latter called for calm before the meeting, to avoid receiving a travel ban in the return match which hangs in their face. It’s been 20 years since the club reached the last four of a European Cup, the fervor is likely to be there.