With Arsenal's trip to Madrid looking the more competitive of the two Europa League semi-finals tonight, Marseille's 2-0 lead from a comfortable first-leg win against RB Salzburg didn't appear overly problematic.
Yet, anyone who witnessed Lazio's trip to Austria in the quarter-final will have known that this particular cog in the Red Bull machine have a bit about them.
After 90 minutes, the 2-0 lead had been equaled and both sides were heading for extra-time. With this year's Europa League final taking place in Lyon, the French side would have been devestated to fall in such a fashion.
With the game looking to be going to penalties, it fell to the 32-year-old central defender Rolando to sneak Marseille into prime-position again.
However, it was not without controversy. Beautifully finishing a Dimitri Payet corner, there were serious doubts that the corner ever should have been given in the first place.
GOAL! #Salzburg 2-1 #Marseille. Rolando shambles a Payet corner - which shouldn't have been given - into the corner.
— Robin Bairner (@RBairner) May 3, 2018
Awful decision to award Marseille a corner has cost Salzburg. So cruel
— Ed Aarons (@ed_aarons) May 3, 2018
Another awful decision from the officials who gave a corner to Marseille, despite it clearly coming off a Marseille player before going out.
A sad end to a wonderful journey for the Austrian club!— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) May 3, 2018
A fairly inexplicable mistake, you can see the shot the 'deflection' that brought Marseille the crucial corner at the end of the video below.
Marseille on their way to the #UEL final, scoring off a corner kick which was actually a goal kick. Terrible mistake from the refs #FCSOM pic.twitter.com/R5tsHMi9Wj
— Jonah Takalua (@Destaquito2) May 3, 2018
That being said, one former Marseille man was not one bit bothered.
C’est pas du liiiiiiiive caaaaa?!?!?!? @OM_Officiel 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 aller faut tenir encore 5min pic.twitter.com/RveZbEWMBz
— Didier Drogba (@didierdrogba) May 3, 2018
