Marseille v Salzburg background
Marseille have gift in their hands as they bid to join Group we winners Salzburg in a subsequent round.
• The French side will be by to a knockout proviso if they equivocate defeat; they can still validate if they lose, though usually if a other organisation tie between Vitória SC and Konyaspor is drawn.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ initial assembly in UEFA foe came on matchday two, hosts Salzburg winning 1-0 interjection to a 73rd-minute strike from Israeli striker Munas Dabbur.
• Marseille’s record in 5 games opposite Austrian clubs is W2 D1 L2 (W1 D1 in France).
• Salzburg’s record in 5 matches with French sides is W3 L2. They were jubilant on their final revisit to France – 2-0 during Nice in final season’s organisation stage.
Form guide
• Marseille have won all 4 European games during a Stade Vélodrome this term, scoring 10 goals and surrender three. They have never formerly achieved limit points during home in 11 six-match UEFA organisation theatre campaigns.
• Salzburg are behest to go undefeated by a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a record fourth time. They are dominant in their final 14 European matches (W9 D5), given a 1-0 home detriment to Nice on matchday 3 final season.
• The Austrian bar have kept purify sheets in any of their final 4 European fixtures; a record in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final, is five, set by Napoli in 2014/15. Ten other teams have purebred 4 in succession, many recently Manchester United final year.
• Fifth in France final term, Marseille final featured in a organisation theatre in 2015/16 when they done it to a turn of 32, eventually losing to Athletic Club. They were UEFA Cup runners-up in both 1998/99 and 2003/04.
• Austrian joining and crater double winners for a past 4 seasons, and 1994 UEFA Cup runners-up, Salzburg missed a cut in final year’s organisation theatre after next in their prior 3 attempts.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Salzburg to Marseille is around 800km.
• Marseille defender Adil Rami won a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League with Sevilla, starting 7 matches including the final opposite Liverpool.
• Salzburg won final season’s UEFA Youth League, violence Benfica in a final underneath Marco Rose – now in assign of a comparison side.
• Along with FCSB, Salzburg are in a record seventh UEFA Europa League organisation stage. They have turn a initial organisation to win their organisation on 4 occasions – 7 others have achieved a attainment 3 times.
• Salzburg are also a usually bar to have accessible a limit 18 points in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre on dual occasions (2009/10 and 2013/14).
• This is Salzburg’s 52nd UEFA Europa League match, organisation theatre to final; usually Spanish clubs Villarreal and Athletic Club have played more.
• On-loan Salzburg defender Jérôme Onguéné started his comparison career in France with Sochaux; he was personification in a pot while Marseille goalkeeper Yoann Pelé (2014–15) was in a comparison side, a span personification 3 first-team games together in May 2015.
• OM have Boubacar Kamara accessible again after a one-game ban.
• Marseille’s Jordan Amavi is dangling after being shown a red label in a matchday 5 confront during Konyaspor.
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 domestic double delight in 2010/11. He subsequently spent 3 seasons in assign of Roma.
• Previously active as youth-team boss, Marco Rose stepped adult to a comparison Salzburg helm after prototype Óscar GarcÃa left in June. A defender with home-town bar Leipzig, Hannover and Mainz, he has been on Salzburg’s staff given 2013.