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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2017/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 0-3) Estádio Municipal de Braga - Braga Thursday 22 February 2018 SC Braga 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Olympique de Marseille Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 04/05/2018 23:28CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 19 1 SC Braga - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 22 February 2018 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique de Marseille - SC Germain 4, 69, 15/02/2018 R32 3-0 Marseille Braga Thauvin 74 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique de Marseille - SC 05/11/2015 GS 1-0 Marseille N'Koudou 39 Braga Ahmed Hassan 61, SC Braga - Olympique de Wilson Eduardo 77, 22/10/2015 GS 3-2 Braga Marseille Alan 88; Alessandrini 84, Batshuayi 87 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 6 Olympique de Marseille 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 6 3 SC Braga - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 19/03/2009 R16 SC Braga - Paris Saint-Germain Braga Hoarau 81 agg: 0-1 12/03/2009 R16 Paris Saint-Germain - SC Braga 0-0 Paris Olympique de Marseille - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vitória SC - Olympique de 02/11/2017 GS 1-0 Guimaraes Hurtado 80 Marseille Olympique de Marseille - Vitória Ocampos 28, Lopez 19/10/2017 GS 2-1 Marseille SC 76; Martins 17 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Niang 70; Maxi Olympique de Marseille - SL 1-2 18/03/2010 R16 Marseille Pereira 75, Alan Benfica agg: 2-3 Kardec 90+1 SL Benfica - Olympique de Maxi Pereira 76; Ben 11/03/2010 R16 1-1 Lisbon Marseille Arfa 90 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Porto - Olympique de Sektioui 27, Lisandro 06/11/2007 GS 2-1 Porto Marseille 78; Niang 47 2 SC Braga - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 22 February 2018 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga UEFA Champions League Olympique de Marseille - FC Niang 69; Lucho 24/10/2007 GS 1-1 Marseille Porto González 79 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Porto - Olympique de 04/11/2003 GS1 1-0 Porto Alenichev 21 Marseille Drogba 24, Marlet 84; Olympique de Marseille - FC 22/10/2003 GS1 2-3 Marseille Maniche 31, Derlei Porto 35, Alenichev 81 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers SL Benfica - Olympique de 1-0 18/04/1990 SF Lisbon Vata 83 Marseille agg: 2-2 ag Olympique de Marseille - SL Sauzée 14, Papin 44; 04/04/1990 SF 2-1 Marseille Benfica Lima 10 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 2 1 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 3 7 Olympique de Marseille 7 4 1 2 6 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 13 4 2 7 16 17 3 SC Braga - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 22 February 2018 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Match background Two teams that began their 2017/18 UEFA Europa League campaign in the third qualifying round meet in the second leg of the round of 32 as Braga host Marseille hoping to retrieve a 3-0 first-leg deficit – an onerous task despite the visitors' poor record on Portuguese soil. • Braga topped Group C with ten points – the lowest tally recorded by any of the 12 section winners – while their French opponents finished second in Group I to Salzburg after winning two, drawing two and losing two of their six matches. Previous meetings • This is one of only two ties in this season's UEFA Europa League round of 32 in which the participants had previously met in European competition prior to last week's first legs, the other being FC København v Atlético Madrid. • Two goals from Valère Germain and a third from substitute Florian Thauvin gave Marseille the biggest first-leg home win of this season's round of 32 as Braga mustered only one shot on target at the Stade Vélodrome. • These two clubs traded home wins in the group stage of the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League group stage. Braga won 3-2 on matchday three, with all the goals coming in the final half-hour, including three in the last six minutes. Ahmed Hassan scored Braga's opening goal past Steve Mandanda. • Marseille recorded a 1-0 win in the south of France a fortnight later. Both clubs qualified for the round of 32. • Braga's only other games against French opposition brought defeat in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup round of 16 as they lost 1-0 on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain (0-0 away, 0-1 home). • Marseille have never won in six visits to Portugal, the latest of their five defeats coming in this season's group stage when they went down 1-0 on matchday four to Vitória SC in Guimaraes. The only time they have avoided defeat on Portuguese soil was when they drew 1-1 at Benfica in the first leg of the round of 16 in the inaugural 2009/10 UEFA Europa League. However, they were eliminated after losing the second leg 2-1 at home. Form guide • Braga have gone 23 European fixtures without a clean sheet but have won four of their five home games this season. Their UEFA Europa League round of 32 record in the Estádio Municipal is W1 D1 L1. • Marseille are without an away victory in six European encounters (D4 L2), scoring just three goals over that period but conceding only five. They are undefeated away from home, however, in their last three UEFA Europa League knockout games, one of those being that 2009/10 draw at Benfica. • Fifth in Portugal last term, and runners-up in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League, Braga are competing in the round of 32 for the fourth time – and seventh including the UEFA Cup. • Braga began this season in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League, where they edged out Swedish side AIK 3-2 after extra time before winning home and away against Iceland's FH in the play-offs (5-3 on aggregate). They finished first in a group containing Ludogorets, İstanbul Başakşehir and Hoffenheim. • The last time Braga topped their UEFA Europa League group, in 2015/16 (when they finished above Marseille), they went on to reach the quarter-finals, defeating Sion 4-3 on aggregate in the round of 32. • UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998/99 and 2003/04, and quarter-finalists in 2008/09, Marseille are competing in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 for the third time. They overcame FC København 6-2 on aggregate at this juncture in 2009/10 but lost 2-1 over two legs to Athletic Club in 2015/16. • Marseille finished fifth in last season's Ligue 1 and, like Braga, entered the UEFA Europa League in the third qualifying round, where they defeated Belgium's Oostende 4-2 on aggregate before getting the better of Slovenian side Domžale in the play-offs (4-1). • Braga have won five and lost five of the ten UEFA competition ties in which they have suffered an away defeat in the first leg. Although they have turned the ties in their favour on the last three such occasions, including the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League semi-final against Benfica (1-2 away, 1-0 home), they have failed to qualify on the three previous occasions they lost the away first leg 3-0. • Marseille have won 12 of the 18 UEFA competition ties after taking a first-leg lead at home, most recently in the third qualifying round of this season's UEFA Europa League when they defeated Oostende 4-2 at home and on aggregate. On the two previous occasions they have won the home first leg 3-0 – against Brøndby in the first round of the 1989/90 European Champion Clubs' Cup and Spartak Moskva in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 32 – they went on to win the tie. UEFA Europa League squad changes 4 SC Braga - Olympique de Marseille Thursday 22 February 2018 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga • Braga In: Wilson Eduardo, Diogo Figueiras, Andrej Lukić Out: Ricardo Ferreira, Fransérgio, André Moreira • Marseille In: Henri Bedimo, Romain Cagnon Out: Dória, Tomáš Hubočan, Christian Madede Links and trivia • Marseille's Rolando (Campomaiorense 1999–2003, Belenenses 2003–08, Porto 2008–15) and Kostas Mitroglou (Benfica 2015–17) have both played for Portuguese clubs. • Rolando's 17 matches against Braga have yielded 11 victories, including the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League final, which Porto won 1-0 in Dublin. Mitroglou did not play in the first leg but has a perfect record against Braga, with five wins out of five, in which he has scored five goals – two of them past current Braga goalkeeper Matheus.