Marseille vs Eintracht Frankfurt PREVIEW & PREDICTION 20/09/2018

Interesting game is what awaits us this Thursday at the Stade Vélodrome, when the current runner-up of the competition such as Olympique Marseille receives the visit of the German cast Eintracht Frankfurt, in game corresponding to Group H of the UEFA Europa League and will be played at closed doors.

Olympique Marseille:

As you know, those led by Rudi Garcia made an acceptable presentation in the previous edition of the UEFA Europa League reaching the final, unfortunately they could not conquer it and lost it to Atlético Madrid. Unfortunately some incidents led to the decision to sanction them to play without public a series of games.

The positive is that Olympique Marseille finished fourth in Ligue 1 last season and with that he got an immediate return to the UEFA Europa League, and in this way adds his fourth participation of the group stage of that competition.

As for the start of the season in Ligue 1, they arrive very motivated by their last two victories, first a 2-3 in their visit to Monaco and now last a 4-0 on Guingamp and so they have only lost one game of the five disputed, placing in the second place with 10 points, five points less than the leader PSG.

Eintracht Frankfurt:

At the moment the start of the season for Adi Hütter has not been the best in Frankfurt, and is that defending champions of the DFB Pokal were eliminated in the first round of the Pokal before a modest Ulm that beat him 2-1.

For a change it was thought that the victory in the debut of the Bundesliga on Freiburg 0-2 was going to be the awakening of the team, this has not been so come with a run of two consecutive defeats, first at home a 1-2 to Werder Bremen and now last a 3-1 in their visit to Borussia Dortmund, this way they are located in the lower part of the classification in the German Bundesliga.

Despite this, there is great confidence in what Adi Hütter can do who arrives at the team after making good presentations in Bern with Young Boys, and in Salzburg with Red Bull.

Recall that Eintracht Frankfurt comes to this competition after winning the title of the German Cup 2017/18 to beat the Bundesliga champion, Bayern München by a score of 3-1, in what meant to break a 30-year drought without a title, in addition to securing his first European campaign in the last five seasons.


PREDICTION: Marseille to win @ 1.62

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