Olympique de Marseille could not create the feat on Tuesday on the lawn of Santiago Bernabeu. After a start to the match totally missed the sky and white managed the scoring in the first period and then finished the meeting in numerical superiority, they were finally overthrown on two penalties transformed by Kylian Mbappé.
After this complicated start to the match of the men of Roberto de Zerbi, the Marseillais left Madrid with some reasons of satisfaction, in the forefront of which their ability to be dangerous on their rare opportunities. But the happy with this first outing of the Olympians was undoubtedly Canal+.
Dispuser of the Champions League, Canal+ has indeed recorded a historic audience thanks to OM. The match against Real Madrid, broadcast on the premium channel, has indeed exceeded the symbolic bar of the two million viewers with 2.01 million subscribers and a peak at 2.3 million. Or an audience share of 11.7% which allows Canal+ to be the second most watched channel behind France 3.
Laure Boulleau expected
Especially this audience is synonymous with a record for the new formula of the Champions League since no match of the league phase had gathered such an audience last season. For comparison, PSG's decisive match against Manchester City had brought together only 1.68 million viewers and its entry against Girona was only watched by 1.34 million pairs of eyes.
This beautiful audience of Olympique de Marseille was expected in the ranks of Canal+. It is true that there is less club (compared to last season). But having Marseille, it compensates a little. We must not forget that this is one of the favorite clubs of the French and we know that the audience will be there with OM, had entrusted Laure Boulleau to TV Mag approaching the resumption of the Champions League. We are also very happy to follow the matches when we know they are interested in a lot of people. »»
If Canal+ broadcast the two OM and PSG matches this week, it should be different thereafter, one of the two teams that should undoubtedly be satisfied with Canal+ Foot according to the posters. And between the two rivals, there will be a match.
