Back in the Champions League, OM knows its eight opponents of the league phase. The draw, which took place this Thursday in Monaco, reserved for the Phocaeans beautiful posters. They will face Liverpool, Real Madrid, Atalanta, Bruges, Ajax, Sporting Portugal, Newcastle and Union Saint-Gilloise.
The Olympian supporters necessarily checked this big meeting at the Vélodrome against Liverpool, but also the trip to the Santiago-Bernabéu. This match against Real Madrid will be an opportunity to find a certain Kylian Mbappé, who did not leave good memories to the Marseillais.
Indeed, the captain of the Blues faced OM 16 times during his passages in Monaco (2015-2017) and Paris Saint-Germain (2017-2024). And during these confrontations in front of the residents of the Vélodrome stadium, the kid of Bondy simply never experienced defeat (14 victories and 2 draws).
Benatia on the trip to Madrid: “I did not have good memories there”
During these 16 meetings against Marseille, Kylian Mbappé, which is more often played a major role. This is evidenced by his 10 goals scored and 3 assists issued. Statistics that inevitably pushes the entire Marseille club to distrust.
“” It's nice, these are beautiful games to play, if you qualify in this kind of competition is to live this kind of evenings ”said Medhi Benatia at the microphone of Canal+ after the draw, and add: ” I even think of the players. When we see the draw, there are beautiful teams, it will be committed matches. It will not be easy. We did everything last year to manage to play these kinds of matches. We will have to be ready and show a beautiful face. We're going to return to Madrid. I didn't have good memories there, but frankly these are good matches. »»