Leipzig v Marseille background
The UEFA Europa League welcomes dual new quarter-finalists in Leipzig and Marseille, who are both seeking to turn a initial winners of a foe from their particular countries.
• Leipzig, who finished third in their UEFA Champions League group, have enjoyed an considerable run in a UEFA Europa League, expelling Napoli on divided goals in a turn of 32 before circumference past another former UEFA Cup winner, Zenit, 3-2 on sum in a turn of 16.
• Runners-up to Salzburg in a organisation stage, Marseille overcame Braga 3-1 on sum in a turn of 32 before home (3-1) and divided (2-1) wins opposite UEFA Europa League regulars Athletic Club in a final 16, Lucas Ocampos scoring 3 goals and captain Dimitri Payet a other two.
Previous meetings
• The clubs have never met in UEFA competition, nonetheless Marseille have faced another organisation from a same city, defeating Lokomotive Leipzig (then representing East Germany) 1-0 on sum (0-0 away, 1-0 home) in a 1987/88 European Cup Winners’ Cup.
• Leipzig’s European entrance came on home dirt opposite French visitors – a 1-1 pull opposite Monaco on matchday one of this season’s UEFA Champions League. The German bar impressed a 2016/17 semi-finalists in a matchday 5 return, a 4-1 win during a Stade Louis II that featured dual goals from German general striker Timo Werner and ensured Leipzig would finish above their hosts in Group G.
• Marseille have mislaid 8 of their 16 matches opposite German opposition, winning five. They have been winning usually once away, entrance from dual goals down to improved Borussia Dortmund 3-2 during a Westfalen Stadion in a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, and mislaid five. However, it was on German dirt that a French bar distinguished their many poignant feat when they degraded AC Milan 1-0 in Munich on 29 May 1993 to win a initial UEFA Champions League.
• OM have been degraded but scoring on any of their final 3 visits to Germany, going down 2-0 to Bayern München in a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg (after a 0-2 detriment during home), 2-0 to Borussia Mönchengladbach in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre and 3-0 during Dortmund in their 2013/14 UEFA Champions League group.
Form guide
• Leipzig have won dual of their 5 European home games (D1 L2) and conceded during slightest once in any of them – 8 goals in all. Indeed, they have nonetheless to keep a purify piece in any of their 10 European matches, home and away, surrender 16 goals in total.
• Leipzig gained involuntary entrance into a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League after finishing runners-up to Bundesliga champions Bayern during a finish of their entrance deteriorate in Germany’s tip flight. They are a usually bar to have played their initial European tie in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Marseille’s 2-1 win in Bilbao final time out finished a run of 7 divided fixtures in Europe but a feat (D4 L3). They had scored usually 3 goals over that period, surrender six.
• UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998/99 and 2003/04, and quarter-finalists in 2008/09, Marseille have reached a UEFA Europa League’s final 8 for a initial time during a fourth attempt.
• Marseille mislaid both legs of their dual many new European quarter-finals, going down 0-2 divided and 1-2 during home to Shakhtar Donetsk in a 2008/09 UEFA Cup before to that 2011/12 UEFA Champions League retreat opposite Bayern. However, a initial 5 of their 7 European quarter-final ties all finished in victory, many recently opposite Internazionale in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup (1-0 home, 1-0 away).
• Marseille finished fifth in final season’s Ligue 1 and entered a UEFA Europa League in a third subordinate round, where they degraded Belgium’s Oostende 4-2 on sum before removing a improved of Slovenian side Domžale in a play-offs (4-1).
Links and trivia
• No German or French bar has ever reached a UEFA Europa League final. There has usually ever been one semi-finalist from any nation – Hamburg in 2009/10 and Lyon in 2016/17 respectively.
• Leipzig are a usually one of a 8 teams remaining in a foe who have never formerly seemed in a UEFA foe final.
• Leipzig became a 204th bar to contest in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final – and a record 17th from Germany – when they eliminated over from a UEFA Champions League in a winter.
• Goalkeeper Péter Gulácsi has played each notation of Leipzig’s 10 European games.
• Werner has scored 6 goals in Leipzig’s final 7 European fixtures – a initial 5 in divided fixtures before he pennyless his home steep in a 2-1 win opposite Zenit.
• Werner scored past Steve Mandanda in Germany’s 2-2 accessible pull opposite France in perfume final November.
• In a European Qualifiers for a 2018 FIFA World Cup Emil Forsberg scored a opener for Sweden in France before Dimitri Payet grabbed France’s leader in a 2-1 victory. In a lapse fixture, Forsberg’s Sweden topsy-turvy that 2-1 scoreline opposite Payet’s France.
• There are 3 Frenchman in a Leipzig squad: Dayot Upamecano, Ibrahima Konaté and Jean-Kévin Augustin.
• Upamecano and Marseille’s Maxime Lopez are stream team-mates for a French inhabitant Under-21 side, while Bruma (Leipzig) and Rolando (Marseille) are both full Portuguese internationals.
• Marseille contingent Hiroki Sakai (Hannover), Aymen Abdennour (Werder Bremen) and Luiz Gustavo (Hoffenheim, Bayern München, Wolfsburg) have all played for German Bundesliga clubs.
• Adil Rami, a starter in all 14 of Marseille’s European encounters this term, won a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League with Sevilla, appearing in 7 matches including a final opposite Liverpool.
• Marseille are a usually UEFA Champions League winners benefaction in a quarter-finals.
• This is a French club’s 15th UEFA Europa League confront this season, a many of any of a competition’s remaining participants. It is a second longest European debate in OM’s story – after a 17-match odyssey that ecstatic them from a UEFA Champions League subordinate proviso to a UEFA Cup final in 2003/04.
• Leipzig’s Willi Orban is dangling for this initial leg.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Marcel Sabitzer, Yussuf Poulsen, Jean-Kévin Augustin, Diego Demme (Leipzig); Lucas Ocampos, Jordan Amavi, Maxime Lopez, Adil Rami (Marseille).
The coaches
• Former Austrian general striker Ralph Hasenhüttl was allocated as RB Leipzig manager following their graduation to a Bundesliga in 2016, and he strike a belligerent running, remaining dominant in his initial 13 joining games en track to running a bar to a runners-up mark in their entrance top-flight campaign. His prior coaching posts have all been in Germany – during Unterhaching, Aalen and Ingolstadt.
• Marseille manager given Oct 2016, Rudi Garcia started out as a midfielder during Lille, returning to lead a bar from 2008–13 and masterminding their Ligue 1/Coupe de France double delight 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.