Terminus for French clubs Thursday evening and it is clear that the course of Ligue 1 clubs is to be welcomed this season.
In the Europa League, OL and AS Monaco finished first in their group, the same situation for Rennes in the Europa League Conference - without having played their last match due to the postponement in London against Tottenham - only OM disappointed with an elimination from the group stages in the 2nd of the European Cups.
Consolation prize for the Olympians, the transfer to C4 thanks to their success in front of Lokomotiv Moscow (1-0) Thursday evening.
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Let's start first with OL and AS Monaco, first and therefore directly qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League.
This already prevents them from a tricky "round of 16".
As a reminder, play-offs for access to the knockout phase will be disputed, in a round trip, before the 8th between the eight second in groups and the teams classified third in the pools of the Champions League.
It is still a little early to make projections to try to find out who the opponents of Lyonnais, Monegasques and even Rennais may be in the Europa Conference Conference.
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On the other hand, Monday at 1 p.m., OM will keep a watchful eye on the draw for the play-offs to definitively access the table of the round of 16 of the new European competition. As third in a Europa League group, Marseille will have to play a play-off against a second in the Europa Conference League. A round of 16 disguised on a round-trip confrontation, on February 17 and 24. You follow ? For clarity, the list of eight possible opponents of Jorge Sampaoli's men has been known since Thursday evening.
It could be Tottenham, if the Spurs - who must play their match against Rennes - finish second in their group. A dream poster facing OM would be the best possible advertisement for this famous “C4”. If it is not the formation of Hugo LLoris and Harry Kane, the Marseille club could find much less prestigious competitors. The Norwegians from Bodo Glimt, the Israelis from Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Danes from the Randers, the Serbs from Partizan Belgrade, the Czechs from Slavia Prague, the Greeks from PAOK Salonika and the Azeris from Qarabag.
OM's potential opponents in the play-off:
-Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR)
-Partizan Belgrade (SER)
-Bodo Glimt (NOR)
-Randers (DAN)
-Slavia Prague (RTC)
-PAOK Salonika (GRE)
-Tottenham (ANG ) or Vitesse Arnhem (PB)
- Qarabag (AZE)