Marseille v Leipzig background
Marseille will have to come behind to win a European tie following a first-leg improved for a initial time in 13 years if they are to strech a UEFA Europa League semi-finals during a responsibility of European debutants RB Leipzig, 1-0 winners of a initial confront in Germany.
• Runners-up to Salzburg in a organisation stage, Marseille overcame Braga 3-1 on total in a spin 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.
• 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 spin of 32 before circumference past another former UEFA Cup winner, Zenit, 3-2 on total in a spin of 16.
Previous meetings
• A tighten initial leg in Leipzig finished in feat for a home side as they scored a usually idea usually before a interlude by Timo Werner, a German general striker induction his seventh European idea in 2017/18.
• The clubs had never met in UEFA foe until a initial leg of this tie, nonetheless Marseille had formerly faced another organisation from a same city, defeating Lokomotive Leipzig (then representing East Germany) 1-0 on total (0-0 away, 1-0 home) in a 1987/88 European Cup Winners’ Cup.
• Marseille have mislaid 9 of their 17 matches opposite German opposition, winning five. Four of those wins have been on French soil, nonetheless a final 3 opposite German visitors have brought dual defeats and a draw, with dual goals conceded in any game. OM’s final home delight opposite a Bundesliga side was a 3-0 win opposite Borussia Dortmund in a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Leipzig’s European entrance was 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 Werner and ensured Leipzig would finish above their hosts in Group G.
Form guide
• Marseille have won 6 of their 7 European games during a Stade Vélodrome this season, sketch a other 0-0 opposite associate quarter-finalists Salzburg. They have scored 16 goals, conceded 4 and kept 4 purify sheets. Their final home improved in Europe was a 1-0 detriment to Athletic Club in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League spin of 16.
• 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 and also losing both legs (0-2 home and away) to Bayern München in a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League. 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 total before removing a improved of Slovenian side Domžale in a play-offs (4-1).
• Leipzig have won dual of their 5 European divided games (D1 L2) and conceded during slightest once in any of them – 8 goals in all. Indeed, a 1-0 win in a initial leg of this tie was a club’s initial European purify sheet, home and away, in their 12th match.
• 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 have won 3 and mislaid 4 of a 7 UEFA foe ties in that they were degraded divided in a initial leg, their many new success being opposite Deportivo La Coruña in a 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup final when they recovered from a 2-0 improved in Spain to win a lapse 5-1 in France.
• In any of a dual prior instances where OM have mislaid a initial divided leg by a one-goal margin, they have managed to spin a tie around during home – opposite Dukla Praha in a 1969/70 European Cup Winners’ Cup (0-1 away, 2-0 home) and Lech Poznań in a second spin of a 1990/91 European Cup (2-3 away, 6-1 home).
• Leipzig were successful on a usually other arise when they won a initial leg of a European tie during home – opposite Zenit in a spin of 16 (2-1 home, 1-1 away).
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.
• 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 Marseille’s initial 14 European encounters this tenure though who missed this initial leg by injury, 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 16th 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 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 11 European games.
• Werner has scored 7 goals in Leipzig’s final 8 European encounters – a initial 5 all came in divided fixtures.
• 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 Frenchmen 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.
• Leipzig’s Willi Orban earnings from cessation after blank a initial leg.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Lucas Ocampos, Jordan Amavi, Maxime Lopez, Adil Rami, Boubacar Kamara (Marseille); Marcel Sabitzer, Yussuf Poulsen, Jean-Kévin Augustin, Diego Demme (Leipzig).
Penalty shoot-outs
• Leipzig have nonetheless to underline in a UEFA chastisement shoot-out.
• Marseille’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W2 L1:
3-5 v Crvena zvezda, 1990/91 European Champion Clubs’ Cup final
4-1 v Germinal Beerschot, 2005/06 UEFA Cup initial round
7-6 v FC Twente, 2008/09 UEFA Cup spin of 32
The coaches
• 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.
• 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.