Shakhtar Donetsk v Marseille Live

The second French-Ukrainian footballing battle takes place this Thursday evening when Marseille travel to Donetsk to face the local Shakhtar team in what is sure to be an entertaining fixture. Join us here at oleolefootball.com for UEFA Cup action live and online – live stream football at its very best.

Both teams come into this game after contrasting league fortunes last time out. Whereas Shakhtar lost away to M. Zaporozhye by 1-0, Marseille travelled to St. Etienne and thrashed the local side by 3-0.

Shakhtar reached this stage of the competition thanks to an aggregate victory in their Ukrainian-Russian battle against CSKA Moscow by 2-1. They won the second leg in Donetsk by 2-0, overturning the 1-0 away defeat.

Marseille are currently second in the French league, only one point behind leaders Lyon. This is the closest the league has been for years and Marseille are actually unbeaten in eight French league games – confirming they are in top form at the moment. They got to this stage of the UEFA Cup competition following a hard fought two legs with Ajax Amsterdam, they game finally finishing 4-3 on aggregate to Marseille after thirty minutes of extra time were needed to separate the teams.

Despite the long trip to the Ukraine, Marseille will start the tie as slight favourites and will be hoping to at least score an away goal in the first leg to make matters a bit easier for them when they play the second leg in France next week.

You can enjoy all the action from the Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Marseille game right here on oleolefootball.com this coming Thursday evening. Watch live soccer online from all the UEFA Cup clashes this week and find out what live stream football is really all about.