Drogba back to lead Marseille mission
Marseille will put their faith in Didier Drogba’s powers of recovery and his extraordinary strikerate as they attempt to overcome Valencia in the Uefa Cup final in Gothenburg tonight.
Drogba, who has delivered a startling nine goals in Europe this season prada replica, has been struggling to recover fitness since suffering a hip injury in a French League match against Monaco 10 days ago.
Despite France’s player of the year himself raising doubts about his fitness, Marseille’s coach Jose Anigo yesterday insisted Drogba Barberino Factory Outlet Prada would line up against the Spanish champions in the Ullevi Stadium.
Anigo said: “Didier is 100% fit and he will play. It took us some time to get Didier back on his feet but now everything is perfectly fine. After the Monaco match he could hardly move or dress and we feared the worst.”
The Ivory Coast striker, who scored twice against both Liverpool and Newcastle, is clearly a major About Prada Products weapon in their quest to win their first European trophy since the 1993 Champions League final.
Anigo lavished praise on his striker. “Didier is the perfect match between Jean-Pierre Papin and Authentic Prada Shoes Outlet George Weah,” All Prada Nylon Bags he said. “He has Papin’s sense and Weah’s power.”
Victory tonight would crown a remarkable start to managerial life for the Marseille-born Anigo, who was surprisingly promoted from head of the youth academy to replace Authentic Prada Shoes Sale the sacked Alain Perrin in January.
The goalkeeper Fabien Barthez is the Authentic Prada Shoes Outlet only survivor from the side which triumphed in 1993 over Milan in Munich.
David Albelda, Valencia’s captain, believes the team are better equipped to win European trophies than in 2000 and 2001 when they lost successive Champions League finals. “The key to our success is hard work and humility,” said Black Prada Bag With Gold Hardware the midfielder, who added that there were no plans to change their defensive tactics to cope with Drogba. “We are talking about a great player. But in the Spanish League we have to cope with great players week in, week out and we don’t use any special man-marking or other plans to stop them.”
Valencia’s coach Rafael Benitez claimed his side had their own potential match-winner in the Argentinian playmaker Pablo Aimar.
“Aimar is the sort of player Authentic Prada Handbags Wholesale that can unlock determined defences and if necessary we will be looking to him to perform that role,” Benitez said.
Ottmar Hitzfeld, the most successful Authentic Prada Nylon Messenger Bag German club coach of recent times, Authentic Prada Handbags Wholesale will leave Bayern Munich on Saturday at the end of the Bundesliga season. The announcement comes just over a week after Hitzfeld lost all hope of a fifth league title with Bayern following their 3-1 home defeat by Werder Bremen. Since he joined Bayern in 1998, he also won the Champi ons League in 2001 and the German Cup twice.
Valencia (probable) : Canizares; Torres, Ayala, Marchena, Carboni; Albelda, Baraja; Vicente, Aimar, Rufete; Mista.
Marseille (probable) : Barthez; Beye, Meite, Hemdani, Ferreira; Batlles, N’Diaye, Marlet, Flamini, Meriem; Drogba.
Referee: P Collina (Italy).
TV: BBC2, kick-off 7.45pm
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