Would statistics mixed with opta algorithms have a tooth against OM? A few days after predicting a fifth final place in Ligue 1 for the Marseille club – even before the start of the season and the famous Rabiot affair which certainly caused a delay in the ignition in the Marseille cloakroom – the analyst plays the ominous bad people for the Olympians in the Champions League.
According to OPTA indeed, OM will not pass the league phase in C1 this season. Successively opposed to Real Madrid, Ajax, Sporting, Atalanta, Newcastle, Union Saint-Gilloise, Liverpool and Cercle Bruges, the team led by Roberto de Zerbi should complete the first phase of the competition at 31e Rang (out of 36).
Such a scenario would mean the pure and simple elimination of Marseille even before the dams reserved for the classified training of the 9e at the 24e place. Paphos' Cypriots, according to these projections, inflicting a funny humiliation by the rest by finishing 30ea level above the rich workforce built by the tandem Pablo Longoria-Medhi Benatia.
PSG among ultra-favoris
Still to believe Opta, the Marseillais would have little only 4.28% chance of rallying the knockout stages of the tournament. It is much less than a AS Monaco which will have on its way Real Madrid, Manchester City or even Juventus. The Principality club, potentially 21e At the end of the eight initial meetings, would thus have 10.91% chance of accessing the quarter -finals.
And what about the Parisian title holder, who would have 22.01% of the big Budapest final on May 30, 2026? OPTA thus sees PSG well appearing from competition – unlike the past season – with a league phase concluded in fifth position, behind an English quartet composed of Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea. And just in front of Barça, Real and Inter.
