Before receiving PSG this Sunday (8:45 p.m.), in a sold-out Velodrome stadium, OM may have heavy legs.
The Marseillais will start the game with 48 hours less recovery than their Parisian rivals who played Tuesday night in the Champions League (3-2 against Leipzig).
But the Marseillais will be a little light-hearted: they know they are strong and strong at the moment.
Returned to third place in the Ligue 1 standings, OM are still undefeated in the Europa League.
Undefeated but not a winner because the Canebière club remains in three draws.
After those against Lokomotiv Moscow (1-1) and Galatasaray (0-0), Marseille went to find another in Rome against Lazio (0-0).
Faced with this great Serie A and European football club, Dimitri Payet's OM have shown themselves to be solid, failing to be fully rewarded for all their efforts.
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Under the impetus of the Turkish international Cengiz Ünder, the Marseillais have long dominated the game in the Eternal City. With an incisive Payet and an unsuccessful Ünder, OM proved dangerous on multiple occasions, especially shortly before the break when the Turk rolled up a nice strike from the left stopped by the Roman goalkeeper Strakosha. For more than an hour, Marseille seemed quite able to win.
But OM also ended up losing the thread of the meeting in the last half hour. In retreat so far, the Lazio attack began to stick out the tip of its nose to be more and more dangerous in turn. For long minutes, the two teams surrendered blow for blow. But it was Lazio who were the most determined, for example when Immobile three minutes before the end found himself alone in front of Pau Lopez. The Olympian goalkeeper had to pull out all the stops to preserve his clean sheet.
Finally, Marseille does not win and in the classification of this Europa League, Marseille is treading water.
If they want to pass this preliminary round, the Olympians will have to win return matches from this group stage.
Starting with the one against Rome in two weeks at the Vélodrome.
But in the meantime, OM is showing solidity, will and heart.
Qualities which must appeal to his supporters and which will be very useful to him this Sunday evening against the Parisian stars.
