Monaco and Rennes want to keep the lead
The Monegasques travel to Trabzonspor, a Turkish club that Philippe Clément’s men beat a week ago (3-1), thanks in particular to a very good Wissam Ben Yedder, the French international scorer of two goals.
ASM will have an eye on the other match of the group, in the authorized framework Ferencváros, which has the same number of points as the L1 club (six but a lower goal difference), receives the Red Star of Belgrade .
Rennes can confirm
As a reminder, only the first of each group is qualified for the 8th finals. The second must play a play-off against the third in the Champions League groups. In this context, a success for Rennes against Dynamo kyiv (in Poland due to the conflict in Ukraine) would be welcome.
Bruno Genesio’s men are still undefeated this season on the European scene (7 points) but are advanced on goal difference by the Turks of Fenerbahce, who travel to Cyprus to face Larnaca.
The situation of the third French club engaged in C3 is much less comfortable: FC Nantes, which hosts the solid FC Fribourg, only occupies third place in Group G, six points behind the German leader.
In the other groups, AS Roma are in great danger when they travel to Betis Sevilla, where a defeat could prevent them from qualifying.
After a sloppy start to the competition (defeat against the Bulgarians of Ludogorets and victory against Helsinki), José Mourinho’s men lost last week at home to Betis, and found themselves in third position in group C.
An affordable match for Nice
The first place seeming promised to the Sevillians (which could also come into force this Thursday evening), here are the Romans already under pressure when they are also in their infancy in the league (6th four points from Naples).
Another tenor of this C3 has every interest in winning on Thursday: Manchester United, which hosts Omonia Nicosia (9:00 p.m.) is, with six points out of nine, chasing Real Sociedad, which is making a faultless run at the top of the group e.
In the Europa League Conference, Nice (co-leader with Partizan Belgrade) receives the small thumb of its group, the Czechs of Slovácko that the Aiglons had beaten (0-1) seven days ago.