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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS GSP - Nicosia Thursday 4 October 2018 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Apollon Limassol FC Group H - Matchday 2 Olympique de Marseille Last updated 15/12/2018 03:13CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 Apollon Limassol FC - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 4 October 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Apollon Limassol FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Diakhaby 29, Fekir Olympique Lyonnais - Apollon 23/11/2017 GS 4-0 Decines 32, Díaz 67, Maolida Limassol FC 90 Apollon Limassol FC - Olympique Adrián Sardinero 14/09/2017 GS 1-1 Nicosia Lyonnais 90+3; Depay 53 (P) UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers OGC Nice - Apollon Limassol 1-0 29/08/2013 PO Nice Cvitanich 4 FC agg: 1-2 Apollon Limassol FC - OGC 22/08/2013 PO 2-0 Nicosia Sangoy 54, 63 Nice Olympique de Marseille - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AEL Limassol FC - Olympique Orlando Sá 41, Edmar 06/12/2012 GS 3-0 Nicosia de Marseille 79, Dickson 82 Fanni 42, Mendes 61, Olympique de Marseille - AEL 04/10/2012 GS 5-1 Marseille Rémy 76, 90+3, Limassol FC Gignac 90; Ouon 22 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Apollon Limassol FC 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 3 6 Olympique de Marseille 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 5 4 2 Apollon Limassol FC - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 4 October 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Match background Apollon welcome last season’s UEFA Europa League runners-up to Cyprus hoping to end a long winless run in the competition's group stage that continued on matchday one with a 2-1 defeat at Lazio. Marseille, meanwhile, will be eager to bounce back immediately from their opening loss by the same score at home to Eintracht Frankfurt. Previous meetings • This is the first time the clubs have come face to face in UEFA competition. Apollon have one win and one draw from their two games against French visitors, the latter coming last season, 1-1 against Lyon on matchday one of the UEFA Europa League group stage. • Marseille have less than fond memories of their only previous trip to Cyprus – a 0-3 loss in Nicosia against Apollon's local rivals AEL in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League – although they had already been eliminated from the competition despite an earlier 5-1 win in the reverse group fixture at the Stade Vélodrome. Form guide Apollon • Domestic runners-up in league and cup last term, Apollon's sixth successive season in the UEFA Europa League kicked off in the first qualifying round, where they got the better of Lithuania's Stumbras before ousting Željezničar of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dinamo Brest of Belarus and, on away goals in the play-offs, Basel. • Apollon have been in three previous UEFA Europa League group campaigns – a fourth is a record for a Cypriot club – but have never progressed beyond this stage, finishing third in their section in 2013/14 and fourth in both 2014/15 and 2017/18. Their record in the group stage is W2 D4 L13 with no wins in the last 12. Should they fail to beat Marseille, they will equal the longest run in the competition proper without a victory – currently held alone by Panathinaikos. • The Limassol club have won all four home games in this European campaign, scoring ten goals and conceding just one. Indeed, they have been beaten just once in their last 14 UEFA encounters on Cypriot soil – 3-0 by Everton in last season’s final group game. Marseille • Marseille finished fourth in last season's Ligue 1 to claim an immediate return to the UEFA Europa League. • This is the Cote d'Azur club's fourth UEFA Europa League group stage participation. They failed to reach the knockout phase at the first attempt, in 2012/13, but managed to do so in 2015/16 and 2017/18, going all the way in the latter to the final in Lyon, where they lost 3-0 to Atlético Madrid. They were runners-up also in the 1998/99 and 2003/04 UEFA Cups. • Marseille's run to last season's UEFA Europa League final featured nine away games, only one of which – against Athletic Club in the round of 16 – they won, with five ending in defeat. They last won away in the UEFA Europa League group stage on matchday six of the 2015/16 season – 4-2 at Sigma Olomouc. Links and trivia • Fotis Papoulis is one goal away from becoming Apollon's joint top scorer in Europe alongside Milenko Špoljarić (11). • Apollon's Burkina Faso international defender Dylan Ouedraogo was born in Marseille. Other French-born players in the squad are Kévin Bru, David Faupala, Valentin Roberge and Richard Soumah. The coaches • Sofronis Avgousti has coached home-town team Apollon since December 2016, when, as caretaker, he led the club to victory in each of his first eight league matches and to a successful defence of the Cypriot Cup. He has since steered them into back-to-back UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns. Capped 11 times by Cyprus, he previously served the Limassol club in three separate spells as a goalkeeper and was also on the books of AEK Larnaca, Aris Limassol and APOEL. • Marseille coach since October 2016, Rudi Garcia started out as a midfielder at LOSC Lille, returning to coach the club between 2008 and 2013 and masterminding their Ligue 1/Coupe de France double in 2010/11. He subsequently spent three seasons in charge of Roma, leading the Giallorossi to back-to-back runners-up spots in Serie A. In 2017/18 he steered OM from the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League all the way to the final in Lyon, where they were defeated by Atlético Madrid. 3 Apollon Limassol FC - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 4 October 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Team facts Apollon Limassol Formed: 1954 Nickname: Thrylos (Legend) UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2006) Cypriot Cup: 9 (2017) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: group stage 2016/17: third qualifying round 2015/16: third qualifying round 2014/15: group stage 2013/14: group stage 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: third qualifying round 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 4-0 three times, most recently v Dinamo Brest 09/08/18, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 1-4 twice, most recently v Lokomotiv Moskva 28/08/14, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Apollon v Győr 23/09/67, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 8-0 twice, most recently v Djurgården 29/06/96, UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 4-0 three times, most recently v Dinamo Brest (see above) • Biggest away win 1-4 twice, most recently v Lokomotiv Moskva (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3 three time, most recently v Everton 07/12/17, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Bohemians Praha v Apollon 19/09/84, first round first leg 5-0: Borussia Mönchengladbach v Apollon 23/10/14, group stage Olympique de Marseille Formed: 1899 Nicknames: Les Olympiens (The Olympians), Les Phocéens (The Phocians), OM UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup (1): (1991), 1993 • UEFA Cup: (1999), (2004), (2018) 4 Apollon Limassol FC - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 4 October 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2005 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 9 (2010) French Cup: 10 (1989) League Cup: 3 (2012) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: runners-up 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2015/16: round of 32 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: UEFA Champions League group stage 2012/13: group stage 2011/12: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2010/11: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2009/10: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2008/09: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-1: Marseille v US Luxembourg 03/10/73, UEFA Cup first round second leg 6-0: Marseille v CSKA Moskva 17/03/93, UEFA Champions League group stage • Biggest away win 0-7: Žilina v Marseille 03/11/10, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Marseille v Liverpool 11/12/07, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: Köln v Marseille 06/11/73, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 7-1: Marseille v US Luxembourg (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: US Luxembourg v Marseille 18/09/73, first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-2 three times, most recently v Eintracht Frankfurt 20/09/18, group stage 0-1 four times, most recently v Fenerbahçe 22/11/12, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: Köln v Marseille (see above) 5 Apollon Limassol FC - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 4 October 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Squad list Apollon Limassol FC Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.