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Fourth place Marseilles lost 3-1 to bitter rivals Paris Saint Germain Before the international break, but with five goals from Balotelli in eight appearances since his departure from Nice in January, the club is optimistic.
The attacker, often controversial, seems to flourish in the atmosphere often comic and hushed Marseille.
"We can count it in our number", said club president Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
The coach Rudi Garcia is of the same opinion: "when you are under pressure and under pressure, you can always find it, it can hold the ball and get everyone back".
The former idol of OM, Didier Drogba, admitted last week that he had told Balotelli that a stay in Marseille would do him good.
"Take your chance. It's a club that will do you good"Drogba said that he said at 28 years old.
The striker will be well rested after Roberto Mancini left the Italian group for the recent qualifying matches at Euro 2020, saying that he was unfit, making him write on Instagram that he was "tired" of being underestimated – in a threatening way for Angers.
The owner of the club, Frank McCourt, has launched a "project of champions" to bring Marseille back into the Champions League. His team is now six points from the target and nine games to play.
"We are more than happy with the way it has integrated and with his contribution on the ground"Eyraud says about the role Balotelli played.
The direct rival of Marseille for the final place in the Champions League is Lyon, which sits in third place and warms up for the semifinal of the Coupe de France next week with Rennes.
– Sala gap in Nantes –
Goalkeeper Anthony Lopes is back after a concussion and psychological violence during the Champions League 5-1 defeat in Barcelona.
Defender Ferland Mendy is still injured in the Barca calf, while forward Maxwel Cornet and Dutch defender Kenny Tete are also in Lyon.
Hatem Rennes Ben Arfa, eliminated by Arsenal in the Europa League two weeks ago, suspends three players but will in the match in good shape and with a solid record at home.
Twenty points ahead at the top of the Ligue 1, defending champions PSG go to Toulouse Sunday before their own semi-final Coupe de France with Nantes.
Toulouse has won only one of its last five games and is facing the rise of striker Kylian Mbappe as a lone striker in the absence of Neymar and Edinson Cavani, injured , and PSG with seven consecutive league wins to their credit.
The former club of Emiliano Sala, in Nantes, welcomes Lille, which occupies the second place, with the formation of the Atlantic coast, after having learned this week that Cardiff had declared null and void the transfer of the Dead attacker.
Sala remains the top scorer in Nantes out of 12 with two other Gabriel Boschilia and Majeed Waris on only four each.
But the French champions of 2001 have 10 points ahead of the fall zone The veteran coach Vahid Halilhodzic seems to have put the Canary Islands back on target after the shock of the death of their former teammate.
Lille, who won the French championship most recently in 2011, was beaten for the last time by the Monaco, which returned to first place, and will want to impose face Lyon which is approaching third place.
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