Olympiakos vs Marseille UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be the fifth meeting between Olympiakos and Marseille in European competition -the French side have won three of the previous four, although they lost the most recent clash in November 2011 in the UEFA Champions League (0-1 ).
Marseille have won each of their previous two away games at Olympiakos in European competition, picking up a 2-1 victory in the UEFA Cup in 1994 and winning 1-0 there in the UEFA Champions League in 2011.
This is the second time Olympiakos and Marseille have been drawn together in the group stage of a UEFA Champions League campaign -in 2011/12, the away side won both of their meetings by a 1-0 scoreline.
Marseille have only lost one of their previous six games against Greek opponents in European competition (W4 D1), while they are unbeaten in the three away games in this run (W2 D1).
Olympiakos have only won one of their last 14 games in the UEFA Champions League (D2 L11), although that victory did come in their most recent game in the competition -1-0 v Crvena Zvezda in last season's group stage.
This will be Marseille's first game in the UEFA Champions League since a 1-2 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in December 2013 -they will resume in the competition on a nine-game losing streak, which is already their longest ever run of consecutive defeats in the European Cup/Champions League.
Following their win against Crvena Zvezda in their last UEFA Champions League game, Olympiakos will be looking to record back-to-back home victories in the competition for the first time since December 2014 (a run of six).
Marseille manager Andre Villas-Boas will take charge of his first UEFA Champions League game since March 2016, when his Zenit St Petersburg side were eliminated in the Last 16 by Benf1ca -indeed, Villas-Boas has lost his last three games in the competition; his longest losing run across spells at Chelsea and Zenit.
Olympiakos midfielder Mathieu Valbuena could face his former club in this game -the Frenchman made 37 appearances for Marseille in the UEFA Champions League, which remains the joint-most of any outfield player for the club (along with Benoit Cheyrou).
Steve Mandanda has played 41 games in the UEFA Champions League, the most of any player for Marseille in the competition and European Cup overall. His appearances account for 37% of the total games played by players currently in the OM squad (41/111).
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