UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Vélodrome - Marseille Thursday 25 October 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Olympique de Marseille Group H - Matchday 3 SS Lazio Last updated 21/02/2019 17:41CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 Olympique de Marseille - SS Lazio Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique de Marseille - SS 3-0 Niang 60, Mendoza 03/08/2005 SF Marseille Lazio agg: 4-1 61, Ribéry 65 SS Lazio - Olympique de 27/07/2005 SF 1-1 Rome Di Canio 42; Méïté 70 Marseille UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers S. Inzaghi 17, 37, 38, SS Lazio - Olympique de 14/03/2000 GS2 5-1 Rome 71, Bokšić 82; Leroy Marseille 50 Olympique de Marseille - SS Stanković 64, 24/11/1999 GS2 0-2 Marseille Lazio Conceição 77 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Olympique de Marseille 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 5 8 SS Lazio 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 8 5 Olympique de Marseille - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Inler 22, Higuaín 24, SSC Napoli - Olympique de 06/11/2013 GS 3-2 Naples 75; A. Ayew 10, Marseille Thauvin 64 Olympique de Marseille - SSC A. Ayew 86; Callejón 22/10/2013 GS 1-2 Marseille Napoli 42, Zapata 67 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Milito 75, Pazzini FC Internazionale Milano - 2-1 13/03/2012 R16 Milan 90+6 (P); Brandão Olympique de Marseille agg: 2-2 ag 90+2 Olympique de Marseille - FC 22/02/2012 R16 1-0 Marseille A. Ayew 90+3 Internazionale Milano UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AC Milan - Olympique de Borriello 10; Lucho 25/11/2009 GS 1-1 Milan Marseille González 16 Olympique de Marseille - AC Heinze 49; F. Inzaghi 15/09/2009 GS 1-2 Marseille Milan 28, 74 2 Olympique de Marseille - SS Lazio Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Vélodrome, Marseille UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Internazionale Milano - 0-1 14/04/2004 QF Milan Meriem 74 Olympique de Marseille agg: 0-2 Olympique de Marseille - FC 08/04/2004 QF 1-0 Marseille Drogba 46 Internazionale Milano UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Parma FC - Olympique de Crespo 25, Vanoli 36, 12/05/1999 F 3-0 Moscow Marseille Chiesa 55 Bologna FC - Olympique de 1-1 Paramatti 18; Blanc 20/04/1999 SF Bologna Marseille agg: 1-1 ag 87 (P) Olympique de Marseille - Bologna 06/04/1999 SF 0-0 Marseille FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique de Marseille - AC 26/05/1993 F 1-0 Munich Boli 43 Milan European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique de Marseille - AC 1-0 20/03/1991 QF Marseille Waddle 72 Milan agg: 2-1 AC Milan - Olympique de 06/03/1991 QF 1-1 Milan Gullit 14; Papin 27 Marseille European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Juventus - Olympique de 3-0 Bettega 4, 37, Haller 27/09/1972 R1 Turin Marseille agg: 3-1 44 Olympique de Marseille - 13/09/1972 R1 1-0 Lyon Bonnel 52 Juventus SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Le Marchand 90+2 02/11/2017 GS SS Lazio - OGC Nice 1-0 Rome (og) Balotelli 4; Caicedo 5, 19/10/2017 GS OGC Nice - SS Lazio 1-3 Nice S. Milinković-Savić 65, 89 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/12/2015 GS AS Saint-Étienne - SS Lazio 1-1 Saint-Etienne Eysseric 76; Matri 52 Onazi 22, Hoedt 48, 01/10/2015 GS SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne 3-2 Rome Biglia 80; Sall 6, Monnet-Paquet 84 3 Olympique de Marseille - SS Lazio Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Vélodrome, Marseille UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/10/2001 GS1 FC Nantes - SS Lazio 1-0 Nantes André 72 Couto 7; Fabbri 3, 19/09/2001 GS1 SS Lazio - FC Nantes 1-3 Rome Armand 63, Ziani 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Guivarc'h 39, 85; 2-2 17/03/1998 QF AJ Auxerre - SS Lazio Auxerre Mancini 7 (P), agg: 2-3 Gottardi 13 03/03/1998 QF SS Lazio - AJ Auxerre 1-0 Rome Casiraghi 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 24/09/1996 R1 SS Lazio - RC Lens Rome Fuser 44; Šmicer 67 agg: 2-1 10/09/1996 R1 RC Lens - SS Lazio 0-1 Lens Agglo Chamot 85 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-2 Maurice 22, 31/10/1995 R2 SS Lazio - Olympique Lyonnais Rome agg: 1-4 Assadourian 58 Devaux 15, Deplace 17/10/1995 R2 Olympique Lyonnais - SS Lazio 2-1 Lyon 65; Winter 23 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Six 45, 57, 115 ET, 6-0 Bousdira 109 ET, 02/11/1977 R2 RC Lens - SS Lazio Lens agg 6-2 (aet) Djeballi 118 ET, 119 ET Wilson 30, Giordano 19/10/1977 R2 SS Lazio - RC Lens 2-0 Rome 31 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Olympique de Marseille 9 5 1 3 9 1 4 4 2 1 0 1 20 7 5 8 19 26 SS Lazio 9 5 2 2 9 3 2 4 0 0 0 0 18 8 4 6 25 26 4 Olympique de Marseille - SS Lazio Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Match background Last season's UEFA Europa League runners-up Marseille will be keen to get their 2018/19 campaign back on track after a disappointing start to Group H as they host competition regulars Lazio at the Stade Vélodrome. • Despite taking the lead in both of their opening two fixtures, Marseille have only one point on the board, a 1-2 home defeat by Eintracht Frankfurt followed by a 2-2 draw at Apollon Limassol. Lazio beat Apollon 2-1 at home on matchday one but had two players sent off in a 4-1 defeat in Frankfurt last time out. Previous meetings • Lazio, and in particular Simone Inzaghi, have happy memories of their two UEFA Champions League second group stage meetings with Marseille in 1999/2000, a 2-0 win in the south of France preceding a 5-1 victory at Rome's Stadio Olimpico. Lazio's current head coach scored four goals in the latter match, becoming only the second player to achieve that feat in the UEFA Champions League after Marco van Basten in 1992/93 – the season in which Marseille went on to defeat the Dutchman's Milan side in the inaugural final. • Marseille overcame Lazio in the semi-final of the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup (1-1 away, 3-0 home) and have a home record of W5 D1 L3 against Italian visitors, though two of the last three such fixtures have ended in defeat. • Lazio have won three times in nine visits to France, most recently 3-1 at Marseille's local rivals Nice on matchday three of last season's UEFA Europa League, Sergej Milinković-Savić scoring a double. Form guide 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, the first of them to Italian club Parma. • Marseille staged ten UEFA Europa League matches at home last season – from the third qualifying round to the semi-finals – and won nine of them. The only team to deny them victory at the Stade Vélodrome were Salzburg – 0-0 in the group stage – but OM remedied that by defeating the same opponents 2-0 there in the first leg of the semi-final. Lazio • Edged out of fourth place and into fifth in last season's Serie A by Internazionale on the final day, Lazio are back for a seventh venture into the UEFA Europa League, their best performances having been in 2012/13 and 2017/18, when they reached the quarter-finals. • The Rome side have played more games in the competition than any other Italian club, this being their 59th – and 39th in the group stage. Their last five group stage participations have all been successful – after failures in the first two – and they have topped their section on three of those occasions.