• OGC Nice receives Olympique de Marseille this Wednesday evening (9:15 p.m.) for the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France.

  • In addition to facing each other in the Coupe de France, one of OM's objectives this season, the two teams are close in the standings for qualification for the Champions League.

We believed it for three or four days, but Peter Bosz allowed us to breathe.

After Lyon's victory against Olympique de Marseille last week in a late match (2-1), the fear of seeing the Lyonnais come to win a qualification for the Champions League under the noses of OM was beginning to germinate.

Even a little more when our colleague published an article “Champions League: And if Lyon still beat Marseille on the wire in the race for qualification?

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But Peter Bosz, and his dubious choices, and the Lyonnais, and their inconstancy, reassured us by losing 2-0 against Monaco, synonymous with treading water and a deficit of 9 points in the standings against OM.

“No, really our main competitors this season are Nice”, cuts Najet Rami, loyal supporter of Olympique de Marseille.

The Niçois can shatter this Wednesday evening (9:15 p.m.) the Marseillais' dream of finally winning the Coupe de France, one of OM's objectives this season.

“Yes it's true, I really want to share joy with the city and with this group of players, admitted Jorge Sampoli.

It is a concrete, but difficult opportunity.

We know how important it is for the city”.

Especially since the elimination of the Parisian ogre, winner of six editions over the last seven years, by the people of Nice during the previous round.

The Southern Derby

“There is already a rivalry with Nice through the southern derby, which should not be minimized.

And the rivalry has grown even more in recent years as the two clubs play at the top of the rankings.

In addition to that we play them in the Cup, which is clearly one of the objectives of the season.

The return match in March promises to be boiling hot for all these reasons, not to mention the bottle throwing at Payet on the way out, ”considers Najet Rami.

The Alpes Maritimes prefecture has also banned OM supporters from traveling to Nice, a ban considered “unfair” by Sampaoli.

A victory this Wednesday evening would send the Marseillais to the semi-finals of the Coupe de France, and would allow Jorge Sampaoli's players to get a little closer to this objective.

“I think that for tomorrow's match, the 2nd against the 3rd in the standings, the winner will have a great chance of winning, even if there are several matches left,” Arek Milik has already projected himself.

“In no case do we place this match on the history of this season”

The two coaches preferred to limit the importance of this meeting to their only course in the Cup.

“They won against Paris, then lost against Clermont.

The psychological aspect can be positive but also negative.

This psychological force of victory can also lead you to defeat.

Everything happens very quickly in football, towards good or bad.

You can go from joy to crisis in an instant.

This match tomorrow is very important, it's a knockout.

But once it is over, and no matter who wins, there will be no more past, and we will be focused on Sunday's match, ”swept Jorge Sampaoli.

When Christophe Galtier recalls that “it's above all a quarter-final.

OM are second in the championship.

They have a large workforce in Ligue 1. In no case, we place this match on the history of this season, obviously there is a craze.

But the objective is to reach the semi-finals”.

Last round March 20

However, Najet Rami believes that a victory would "totally" take the psychological advantage over the people of Nice, for the end of the season and the fight for qualification in the Champions League, while she believes that OM "is well above” Nice, despite “the good work of Christophe Galtier”.

The answer is looming anyway very quickly since OM will welcome the Niçois from March 20, 15 days after Monaco, the other team which could also interfere in the fight for qualification for the Champions League.

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