Marseille v Eintracht Frankfurt facts
Marseille, a 2017/18 UEFA Europa League runners-up, start their 2018/19 European debate with a initial assembly opposite German Cup holders Eintracht Frankfurt during a Stade Vélodrome, where they were in challenging form via final season’s extensive continental adventure.
Previous meetings
• Marseille finished a run of 3 home games though a win opposite German visitors when they overcame RB Leipzig 5-2 in a second leg of final season’s quarter-final. Their altogether record in such fixtures is W5 D1 L3.
• Frankfurt’s usually win in 4 trips to France came final time out, violence Bordeaux 1-0 in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
Form guide
Marseille
• Marseille finished fourth in final season’s Ligue 1 to explain an evident lapse to a UEFA Europa League.
• This is a Cote d’Azur club’s fourth UEFA Europa League organisation theatre participation. They unsuccessful to strech a knockout proviso during a initial attempt, in 2012/13, though managed to do so in 2015/16 and 2017/18, going all a approach in a latter to a final in Lyon, where they mislaid 3-0 to Atlético Madrid. They were runners-up also in a 1998/99 and 2003/04 UEFA Cups.
• Marseille staged 10 UEFA Europa League matches during home final deteriorate – from a third subordinate turn to a semi-finals – and won 9 of them. The usually organisation that denied them feat during a Stade Vélodrome were Salzburg – 0-0 in a organisation theatre – though OM remedied that by defeating a same opponents 2-0 there in a initial leg of a semi-final.
Eintracht
• A thespian 2017/18 German Cup final feat over Bundesliga champions Bayern München – 3-1 in Berlin – not usually gave Eintracht their initial vital silverware in 30 years though also cumulative their initial European debate in five.
• Eintracht’s usually European appearance in a past dozen seasons came in 2013/14, when they successfully negotiated a UEFA Europa League play-offs and organisation theatre before going out to Porto in a turn of 32.
• The 1980 UEFA Cup winners won 3 of their 5 divided fixtures in that 2013/14 debate and have mislaid only one of their final 8 European games on a highway (W3 D4).
Links and trivia
• International team-mates:
Kevin Strootman Jetro Willems, Jonathan de Guzmán (Netherlands)
Hiroki Sakai Makoto Hasebe (Japan)
Duje Ćaleta-Car Ante Rebić (Croatia)
Nemanja Radonjić Luka Jović, Filip Kostić, Mijat GaÄinović (Serbia)
• Marseille’s Strootman and Eintracht’s Willems played together during PSV Eindhoven from 2011 to 2013.
• Marseille defender Ćaleta-Car played underneath stream Eintracht manager Adi Hütter during Salzburg in 2014/15.
• Kevin Trapp is on loan during Eintracht from Paris Saint-Germain, with whom he has played 4 times opposite Marseille, winning on any occasion.
The coaches
• Marseille manager given Oct 2016, Rudi Garcia started out as a midfielder during LOSC Lille, returning to manager a bar between 2008 and 2013 and masterminding their Ligue 1/Coupe de France double in 2010/11. He subsequently spent 3 seasons in assign of Roma, heading a Giallorossi to back-to-back runners-up spots in Serie A. In 2017/18 he directed OM from a third subordinate turn of a UEFA Europa League all a approach to a final in Lyon, where they were degraded by Atlético Madrid.
• Austrian manager Adi Hütter was allocated by Eintracht Frankfurt as a inheritor to Bayern München-bound Niko KovaÄ in May 2018, carrying only led Young Boys to their initial Swiss joining pretension in 32 years. A midfielder who spent 7 years with Salzburg, he returned to lead a bar to a domestic double in 2014/15 after managerial spells during Altach and Grödig. He afterwards crossed a limit to spend a subsequent 3 seasons in Berne.