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Marseille bundled out by Benfica

Submitted by Andrew Slevison on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 23:39

A dramatic night in France has seen Marseille bundled out of the Europa League by Portugal’s Benfica.

Following a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Marseille took a slight advantage with their away goal and it looked even better when Mamadou Niang netted with 20 minutes remaining.

But disaster struck for the French club when Maxi Pereira hit back five minutes later to make it 1-1 on the night and 2-2 overall before substitute Alan Kardec to score in the final minute and break the hearts of the Marseille fans as they saw their beloved team knocked out of the tournament 3-2 on aggregate.

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Matches

Home Away Score Time
Sun May 20th
Saint-Étienne Bordeaux 2 - 3 19:00
Lorient PSG 1 - 2 19:00
Sochaux Olympique Marseille 19:00
Auxerre Montpellier 1 - 2 19:00
Olympique Lyon Nice 3 - 4 19:00
Toulouse Ajaccio - 2 19:00
Evian TG Brest - 1 19:00
Stade Rennes Dijon 19:00
Valenciennes Caen 3 - 1 19:00
Lille Nancy 4 - 1 19:00
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Tables

Team P W D L GD PTS
Montpellier 38 25 7 6 34 82
PSG 38 23 10 5 34 79
Lille 38 21 11 6 33 74
Olympique Lyon 38 19 7 12 13 64
Bordeaux 38 16 13 9 12 61
Stade Rennes 38 17 9 12 9 60
Saint-Etienne 38 16 9 13 4 57
Toulouse 38 15 11 12 3 56
Evian TG 38 13 11 14 -1 50
Olympique Marseille 38 12 12 14 4 48
Nancy 38 11 12 15 -10 45
Valenciennes 38 12 7 19 -10 43
Nice 38 10 12 16 -7 42
Sochaux 38 11 9 18 -20 42
Brest 38 8 17 13 -7 41
Ajaccio 38 9 14 15 -21 41
Lorient 38 9 12 17 -14 39
Caen 38 9 11 18 -20 38
Dijon 38 9 9 20 -25 36
Auxerre 38 7 13 18 -11 34
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