Paris (AFP)
RB Salzburg, winner on the lawn of Maccabi Tel Aviv (2-1) and Krasnodar, who beat PAOK Salonika by the same score, took an option on the group stage of the Champions League on Tuesday in the first leg dams.
These two results do not do the business of Olympique de Marseille who hope for their eliminations, and if possible a third, to enter hat 3 in the draw for the group stage on October 1.
It is precisely a former Marseillais, Rémy Cabella, who allowed Krasnodar to equalize by obtaining a penalty that Claesson transformed.
And it is the same Cabella who gave the advantage to the Russians, 20 minutes before the end of this first leg.
The Greek club created a sensation by eliminating Besiktas Istanbul and then Benfica Lisbon.
He will try in the second leg to advance to the group stage for the first time since 1977 but he will have to be more enterprising next week to eliminate the Russians.
Another bad news for OM, RB Salzburg is on track to eliminate Maccabi Tel-Aviv, reigning Israeli champions.
Three other clubs involved in these play-offs with a UEFA coefficient higher than that of OM will play on Wednesday, the Olympiakos of Matthieu Valbuena and Yann M'Vila against the Cypriots of Nicosia, the Belgians of La Gantoise against the Ukrainians of Dynamo Kiev.
Dams go from C1:
Tuesday:
Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR) - RB Salzburg (AUT) 1-2
Krasnodar (RUS) - PAOK Salonika (GRE) 2-1
Slavia Prague (CZE) - Midtjylland (DEN) 0-0
Wednesday (9:00 p.m.):
Olympiakos (GRE) - Omonoia Nicosia (CYP)
Molde (NOR) - Ferencvaros (HUN)
La Gantoise (BEL) - Dynamo Kiev (UKR)
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