The meeting between OM and PSG scheduled for Sunday February 7 at 9 p.m. will be broadcast by Téléfoot, but also by Canal +.

This co-broadcasting system has already been set up exceptionally for the Champions Trophy on January 13, and comes in the midst of a TV rights crisis.

The Ligue 1 summit between Marseille and Paris SG, Sunday at 9 p.m., will be broadcast by Canal + in co-broadcasting with Téléfoot, the Mediapro channel, the Professional Football League (LFP) announced on Wednesday.

The match of the 24th day of Ligue 1 was initially part of the batches of matches held by the Sino-Spanish group Mediapro, the failing broadcaster of French football which the Telefoot channel continues to broadcast.

And the LFP also attributed this match to the encrypted channel at the end of "a market consultation initiated this Wednesday", she detailed in a statement.

TV rights still not reassigned

This co-broadcasting system, already set up exceptionally for the Champions Trophy on January 13, comes in the midst of a crisis in TV rights, while the Professional Football League has still not re-allocated the batches of matches. abandoned by Mediapro, unable to honor its payments this fall.

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Worse, this comes at a time of legal conflict between the Vivendi subsidiary and the LFP, the first having refused to participate in a call for tenders launched by the second on Monday for the Mediapro lots, after considering that only a call for The global offers, including the matches it already broadcasts, was likely to allow the remarketing of the rights to the French Championship.

The LFP said Wednesday evening that TF1, M6 and France Televisions had all submitted an offer "of very high quality" for this meeting at the top of Ligue 1. Mediapro and Téléfoot also announced that they would also broadcast the other seven Matchday 24 Ligue 1 matches that are on their grid, as well as the usual eight Ligue 2 matches.

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The OM-PSG shock of the weekend is particularly expected because of the context surrounding the two teams.

This will be the first OM-PSG of new PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino on the bench, and the Parisians will be revenge after their defeat in the first leg at the Parc des Princes (1-0), even if they recovered in January in Lens during the Champions Trophy (2-1). 

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But it is especially in Marseille that the situation is insane: the club has just announced the dismissal as a precautionary measure of its coach André Villas-Boas, himself having indicated that he wanted to submit his resignation before, Tuesday. 

And the climate is deleterious with the supporters, some of whom broke into the training center of the Marseille club on Saturday, incidents that led to the postponement of the OM-Rennes match and the placement in pre-trial detention on Monday of eight people involved in these clashes. .