Benfica travels to Marseille on Thursday evening to play the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final. A meeting that Portuguese fans were not theoretically supposed to attend, but after huge chaos between the two clubs, the decision was finally made to allow them to attend. 3,000 fans arrived in the last hours to watch this match, which the Portuguese won in the first round (2-1).
BFM Marseille tells us that an unexpected scene occurred at a Burger King restaurant in La Canebière last night. About a dozen Benfica fans had gathered there to eat, but they saw the arrival of the police, who took them to their hotel, where they arrived safely. because of ? A group of OM supporters, obviously several dozen of them, were trying to reach them to fight.
The police are afraid of these violations and planned to enhance security for this match, especially by transporting Benfica fans to designated metro stations. They will even be escorted to the Vélodrome. Atmosphere.