Earlier, the Swiss city of Nyon made the draw for the European League matches for the 2023/24 season. The only representative from Ukraine at the European Cups, Donetsk Shakhtar, recognized his opponent. “Girniki” plays against the French Olympique Marseille.
Kind regards, the team from Rivera, France.
Rik is sleeping:31 shekel 1899 rock.
Chief:René Dufaret de Montmiral.
The club formed a partnership between two sports associations: the Marseille Football Club, which is based on the motto “Droit Au But” (“Straight to the snow”) and the fencing club “L’Epee” (“The Sword”).
Olympique Marseille played its first match in the club’s history in 1902 against the Union Sportive Phocéenne (Marseille Sports Union) and won with a score of 0:4.
Ten-time French Cup winner: 1924, 1926, 1927, 1935, 1938, 1943, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1989.
Three-time French League Cup winner: 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12.
Three-time winner of the French Super Cup: 1971, 2010, 2011.
Win the European Cup/UEFA Champions League: 1993.
Stadium:Orange Velodrome (67.394).
The stadium was opened on June 13, 1937. During the Second World War, the territory of the arena was captured at various times by the French, German and American armies for the development of military equipment.
The Velodrome field hosted competitions for the 1938 and 1998 World Championships and the 1960, 1984 and 2016 European Championships.
Head coach:Gennaro Gattuso.
Legendary in Italian football. “Mafia” two won the Serie A and the Champions League in Milan. The apotheosis of the footballer’s career was the World Cup in 2006, where he also won the tournament together with the Italian national team.
In his coaching career, things are still not going well for Rino, because his technical performance is not respected during his teams’ matches. At this point, the Marseille head coach can only benefit from winning the Italian Cup with Napoli in the 2019/20 season.
After cheering up the ‘Provençal’, Gattuso remains dissatisfied and often happy. “Olympians” entered this season led by Spanish Fahivian Marcelino García Toral, who replaced Croatian Igor Tudor. But he was destined to buy only two and a half months. Due to the threat from Marseille’s ‘crazy’ fans, the Spaniard of 58 rivers is likely to turn to his homeland soon. At the height of the season, the French club had no special options, but those that did (Galtié and Zidan) immediately gave up. Also on April 27, Gennaro Gattuso himself called for Marcelino’s change. ‘Mafiosi’ are not carried away by Marseille fans.
Road to Shaktar
Marseille started the European Cup season with qualification for the Champions League and immediately lost in the third round to the rival of our Dnipro-1, the Greek Panathinaikos (0:1, 2:1 after penalties 3:5).
The victory in the third qualifying round of the Champions League guaranteed the “Provencals” a place in the European League group. The French team is linked to Amsterdam’s Ajax, Athens’ AJK and current European Cup debutant English Brighton. Behind the world of LE, also known as the ‘group of death’. After beating Marseille led by the Spaniard Marcelino with an effective draw against Ajax on the road (3:3), the team had already led Gattuso at home from Brighton (2:2). Then there was a possible “spark” with AJK (3:1, 2:0) and a new battle with Ajax, in which Olimpik won an overwhelming victory (4:3), ensuring the exit to the next round. In the rest of the round, the boys “Mafia” faced the team of another Italian Roberto De Dzerbi in the match for first place, giving up a minimal margin, despite a single goal in the 87th century, including Pedro. In the end, Marseille once again secured a place in Group B, gaining 11 points with a goal difference of 14:10.
The French team was among the top five scoring teams in the group stage of the European League. In turn, Olimpik lost more to any other team (along with Germany’s Freiburg), which managed to take the first two qualifying spots of the LЄ group.
Command warehouse
Marseille’s main goalkeeper is 29-year-old Spaniard Pau Lopez, who recently played for Betis and Roma. Vin is the undisputed first choice in this position, so let’s take a look at his stats: 23 games this season and the entire game is “zero”.
It is important that Olimpik plays with a 4-3-3 formation, or if the situation is bad, you can enter the match with a 4-4-2 or 3-4-3 formation. If Gattuso’s team plays with two central players, Chancel Mbemba and Leonardo Balerdi will play in these positions. If the French come up with a plan with three central locks, it will be up to Bamo Meite or Samuel Gigot to call in their representatives. In the position of the flankers are the head coach Renana Lodi (left-handed) and Jonathan Klauss (right-handed).
The French midfield is in good order, which is important because of the results of the players who played at the best level. The language is about Geoffrey Kondogbia, Jordan Veretou and Valentina Rongier. And there is the young Azzedine Unahi, who caused a great sensation in world football with the Moroccan national team at the last World Cup in Qatar.
In a three-brain scheme, Vereta and Captain Rongier will play. Before them, the top three is Kharit abo Kondogbiya. When using the 4-4-2, 3-4-3 schemes, a pair of CPUs is formed by Veretu-Kondogbiya (Unakhi).
The attack of the team from the Cote d’Azur still looks difficult. Star striker Pierre Emery Aubameyang will continue to trouble the goalkeepers of Marseille’s super teams. This year he has played 23 games, scored 12 goals and provided 7 assists. He scored five of Liza Europe’s 12 goals, ceding the feat to Brighton striker Joao Pedro, who scored more in one take. The Senegalese Ismaila Sarr and the Portuguese Vitinho assist the 34-rich Gabonese in the attack. More
The great leader of Roman Lazio and Milanese Inter is Joaquin Correa, who is literally in the club’s infirmary.
Team warehouse: Lopes – Mbemba, Balerdi, Gigot – Murillo, Kondogbia, Harit, Veretou, Lodi – Aubameyang, Ndiaie.
Ukrainian track
Olympique Marseille is no stranger to Ukrainian football. Another part of last season, our “legionnaire” Ruslan Malinovsky played for the French team, having played 23 matches, including two goals and one assist. In Igor Tudor’s team, a native of Zhytomyr was the unguarded digger of the main warehouse. At the initiative of the Croat Fahivian, Ruslan ended up in Marseille. However, after the arrival of a new head coach in the person of Marcelino at the club, the Ukrainian became a prominent player in the team, after which he was sold to Genoa.
Do you think this is where Ukrainian history will end in the Olympique de Marseille? Not really!
Long before Ruslan Malinovsky started cheering up patients with his harmonious shots, another Ukrainian, goalkeeper Dmytro Nepogodov, played for Marseille. Well, what about Grav? Skorish trained in the main warehouse of the “Provencals”. He was the club’s stable third goalkeeper from 2006 to 2009, but never played a single match for his first team. They moved to another French club in Cannes, where they stayed for two months, after which they moved to the Donetsk Metallurg. Ale, then it’s a completely different story.
History of the protest
Shakhtar no longer has contact with Marseille. Old-school Ukrainian fans, of course, remember the famous performance of “Girniki” during the UEFA Cup. At that time, during the quarterfinals of the tournament, the Donetsk club collaborated with the French team. In the first match in Donetsk at RSK Olimpiyskiy, Mirchi Lucescu’s team celebrated a 2:0 victory, mainly thanks to the goals of the Czech Tomas Hubschman and Jadson. A week later, at the Velodrome, Shakhtar became stronger again (2:1). The goals of Brazilians Fernandino and Luis Adriano allowed the Donetsk team to reach the final stages, where they remembered the legendary confrontation with Dynamo Kiev. Oh, what a time that was…
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