Despite missing several key elements of the squad, the Rhone giants have managed to stay on the Ligue 1 summit and coach Elie Baup will have four fresh players at his disposal in the club’s opening game of the Europa League
Top on the Ligue 1 standings with five wins from the opening five games means that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-de-Marseille-c40127 have made the best start in their history. Despite conditions not being ideal during the summer transfer market, Les Phoceens have done admirably well.
Now, the conditions seem ideal for the 2010 champions of France to start off their Europa League campaign. On Thursday, Elie Baup’s side will take on Turkish Super Lig giants Fenerbahce in the first group game of Europe’s second tier club competition.
However, it must be noted that Marseille had more or less a small workforce at the start of the season which means that there is still risk of tumbling down after a positive start.
Although striker Andre-Pierre Gignac seems to be a rejuvenated soul, a time will come when the management will have to rest the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 international. Now, it appears that the coaching staff at Stade Velodrome is set to use four players in the Europa League
game, who have not featured so far this season.
The first of these players could be loan signing Joey Barton. The controversial Englishman has been banned on the domestic front but is allowed to play in Europe meaning that the player has been declared fit to travel with the rest of the team to Istanbul.
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international is still an unknown quantity so a European outing might do him more good than harm.
Finally, France international, Loic Remy, who is yet to play for Les Phoceens this season, could be set to lead the attack against the Turks on Thursday which means that Gignac may have a partner to share the goalscoring burden with.
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