Marseille parted ways with Villas-Boas, but the team’s results remain poor. The series without victories continues and at the moment it already has 7 matches (4 losses and 3 draws). So the mentor wasn’t the problem? In the standings Olympics are in 9th position. After 23 games they have 34 points. You can’t count on anything more than getting into the Conference League zone. The gap in TOP-4 is 15 points. 4 points separate them from the 5th line of the “Provencals”. Marseille started the season confidently and therefore the statistics on the home arena still look decent: Win-4; Draw-3; Defeat-4. 15 goals are scored and 14 are conceded. In the last 3 games at home the Provencals suffered 3 defeats. Prior to these defeats, the team continued a series of 7 consecutive matches without “pockets”. It is noteworthy that in all 11 home games this season Olympic conceded at least 1 goal. Benedetto and Balerdi will not appear on the field due to the disqualification.
Like its current rival, Juventus did not experience any problems with the advancement from the group in the Champions League. The Italian champion ended up in the company of Barcelona, ??Ferencvaros and Dynamo Kyiv. Despite losing 0:2 in the first round to Barcelona, ??the old lady eventually took revenge in Spain with a score of 3:0 and thus won the group with 15 points. During the pause in the Champions League, Juventus has already managed to get hold of the trophy. In the Italian Super Cup they managed to beat Napoli with a score of 2:0. However, in Serie A things are far from being the best for Juve. One of the main contenders for the Scudetto is only fourth in the table and there is already a gap of eight points from the leader of Inter, but there is also a match in reserve. In the last round Andrea Pirlo’s team unexpectedly stumbled in a duel with Napoli. The opponent was drained of personnel losses in defense, but managed to score and keep its goal locked. The 0:1 defeat in Naples ended a successful streak of seven matches.
