Former OM player Mathieu Valbuena explained in the columns of Provence that PAOK Salonika, OM’s opponent in the Europa League Conference should not be considered a simple draw for the Phocaeans: “in the quarter-finals of a European Cup, there is no good draw. Of course, for OM, it seems lower than Roma, Leicester, PSV or Feyenoord, but I repeat, at this stage of the competition, there is nothing easy.
Currently leader of the Greek championship with Olympiakos, thirteen points ahead of PAOK, he knows that the Greek club will be very motivated at the idea of facing OM, in a “bonus” match for them: “They know very well that OM are a historic club, accustomed to European games. So they will be very suspicious and will have nothing to lose, because they never imagined getting to this stage of the competition.
