• Olympique de Marseille receives PAOK Salonika this Thursday evening in the quarter-final first leg of the Europa League Conference (9 p.m.).

  • The Marseillais can count on Amine Harit, in great shape at the end of the season, after having played very little since his loan from Schalke 04.

A rebirth, at the best time of the season.

Like Olympique de Marseille, its midfielder, Amine Harit, is regaining color at the start of spring.

Very little used by Argentinian coach Jorge Sampaoli since the start of the season, the Franco-Moroccan has been finding playing time since mid-March.

And efficiency since he scored against Saint-Etienne on Sunday (2-4), after a goal and an assist against Brest (3-1), in mid-March.

“It's been going well for a few weeks, I have more playing time. It's something that happens in the head, I walk on confidence.

I didn't change anything in particular, I kept my own line of conduct.

The coach gives me more freedom and playing time, and I think I give him back this confidence, ”he savored at a press conference, before the quarter-final first leg of the Europa League Conference against PAOK Salonika. this Thursday (9 p.m.).

"End the season like these last games"

A real turnaround because no one saw Amine Harit continue on the side of the Vélodrome stadium next season (he is loaned, without option to buy, by Schalke 04), while he only played intermittently.

"Of course it's hard not to play, it's not a moment I enjoyed.

I'm not going to lie.

But I've always believed in myself, I know what I'm capable of and what I can bring.

I chained good performances and I want to perform at this level until the end of the season, ”he said of this bad patch.

A renewal that comes at the best time for Olympique de Marseille, while its playmaker, Dimitri Payet has been in decline since the second part of the season.

To the point of imagining the future of Amine Harit at OM next year?

“My goal is to finish the season like these last games.

I feel good at the moment, it's up to me to continue these good performances.

And there will inevitably be discussions between Marseille and Schalke, that's for sure, ”he reframed.

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But before that, there is a European Cup semi-final to go for, and a qualification for the next Champions League.

And with the absence of Milik for this quarter-final first leg, and the injury of Konrad, for whom the season is over, Amine Harit still has cards to play to afford a bright future.

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