RB Leipzig – Marseille Prediction & Picks (05.04.2018)

RB Leipzig and Olympique Marseille meet at Red Bull Arena, in a match for this phase of the UEFA Europa League (Quarter-finals). This will be the first direct confrontation between these two teams, as they have never faced each other before.

RB Leipzig:

The home team reaches this stage of the UEFA Europa League (Quarter-finals) after having played previous qualifiers with: Zenit St. Petersburg and Napoli. In their last match, for the Bundesliga, they won against Hannover 96 by (2-3). In the last 10 home matches RB Leipzig has won 5, tied 2 and lost 3. They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in their last 4 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 3 of the last 4 matches for this competition.

Up to this moment the Leipzig team has been presenting an excellent performance in the field, proof of which is that it arrives strong for these quarterfinals. In the previous phase the team managed to eliminate Zenit, after winning the first match, next to their fans, by the score of 2×1 and draw 1×1 away from home. Needing to build a good result in this first game, the home team will have to go with everything on their opponent, they will decide their classification away from home. The local coach should take a fairly competitive team to the field and will fight for a positive result during the 90 minutes of play.

Marseille:

The visiting team reaches this stage of the UEFA Europa League (Quarter-finals) after having played previous qualifiers with: Athletic Club and Sporting Braga. In the last match that they disputed, for the League 1, they won against Dijon FCO by (1-3). In the last 7 away matches for the UEFA Europa League Olympique Marseille has a record of 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses. Defensive consistency has not been their best feature, as they have conceded goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 14 matches in this tournament, they have conceded the first goal 6 times and have only won 1 result.

This will be a very complicated duel for Marseille, as it will play away from its fans, but the French team aims to present the same football that it presented in the previous phase, when it eliminated the Athletic Bilbao team, having defeated the two matches, both inside and outside the home. The visiting team will seek to make a strong defensive score, thus creating a bolt in its defensive sector, to try to sustain the attack of the owners of the house. The visiting coach should not have important absences for this duel, then it will lead to a very competitive team for the field.