The scarecrow of C3, FC Barcelona, ​​will meet Eintracht Frankfurt and could find … OL in the semi-finals, according to the table of the last four.

Lyon have avoided Champions League-level chunks like Barca, for now, RB Leipzig or Atalanta Bergamo, with the latter two playing each other in the quarter-finals.

The posters for the quarter-finals of the Europa League, after the draw was made on March 18, 2022 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon Fabrice COFFRINI AFP

The Lyonnais, for the eleventh European quarter-final in their history, will meet two French internationals on April 7 and 14, defender Kurt Zouma and goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, on loan from Paris SG.

The world champion does not start in the Premier League but plays in the cups.

Zouma, trained in Saint-Étienne, will find him an old adversary.

West Ham also has English international Declan Rice or Ukraine striker Andriy Yarmolenko, who scored the qualifying goal against Sevilla on Thursday in extra time (2-0 ap, 1-0 for the Spaniards on the way).

West Ham's European exploits, all in the European Cup, date back half a century.

The London club won it in 1965, against Munich 1860 (2-0), then was a semi-finalist the following year, eliminated by Borussia Dortmund (2-1/3-1), and still a C2 finalist in 1976, beaten by Anderlecht (4-2).

OM-PAOK in two cauldrons

The Hammers have only met a French club on the continent once, Stade Rennais, and emerged victorious (0-1/3-1) in the 1999 Intertoto final.

In the event of victory, the Lyonnais could therefore measure themselves against the Barça of their ex-leader Memphis Depay, if the Catalans also pass the pitfall of Frankfurt.

In the goals of the German club, Kevin Trapp will find the Camp Nou, where he lived the nightmare of the comeback with Paris SG (6-1), in 2017.

In the other quarter-finals, Sporting Braga, finalists of this C3 in 2011, face Glasgow Rangers, back at this level for the first time since their C3 final lost in 2008 against Zénit Saint-Petersburg (2-0 ).

In the Europa League Conference, OM-PAOK promises two boiling legs in their cauldrons, the Vélodrome on the way out, the Toumba de Salonique on the return, for the tenth European quarter-final in OM's history.

PAOK has already crossed paths with French clubs three times in its history.

He eliminated FC Sochaux in the 1982-1983 UEFA Cup (0-1/2-1 ap) and he too, like West Ham, Rennes in C3 2005-2006 (5-1), in a single match.

But the two-headed eagle had suffered the law of PSG in C3 1992-1993 (2-0 / 3-0).

If they go to the semi-finals, Marseille will face a club with a vertically split red and white jersey, Feyenoord Rotterdam or Slavia Prague, who meet in the quarter-finals.

Finally José Mourinho's AS Roma finds the Norwegians of Bodo Glimt who had humiliated them in the group stage (6-1).

The last quarter opposes Leicester, who lost Stade Rennais (2-0/1-2) and PSV Eindhoven.

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