Olympique de Marseille beat Shakhtar Donetsk (3-1) in Europa League play-off. Marseille is the only French club to survive in the round of 16.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the only goal of the match for the Marseillais. Rennes, Toulouse and Lens had all been eliminated at the start of the evening, but Marseille avoided a pitiful zero out of four for Ligue 1 in the play-offs of the old C3.