If Marseille fans are sitting at home on Champions League nights next season watching Lille in the prestigious tournament, they will shudder at the memory of Saturday's draw at home against relegated Strasbourg.

It could be a result which prevents the Mediterranean club from making the European tournament.

Level on points will Lille in the third and final Champions League qualifying place before play, Marseille needed a second-half equaliser just to take a point while Les Dogues claimed all three from their match with Lyon.

Marseille's game with Strasbourg was scoreless at half-time, but heated up quickly after the restart with Samir Nasri striking the first goal for the home side in the 47th minute.

Yacine Abdessadki and then Rudy Carlier gave the visitors the lead before Franck Ribery pulled Marseille level in the 73rd minute.

Marseille threatened in the sixth minute when Nasri centred from the left but his drilled cross was just out of team-mate Toifilou Maoulida's reach.

Mamadou Niang tried his luck from 25 yards out for Marseille but his shot failed to stretch Stephane Cassard.

Twenty minutes into the contest and Strasbourg began to find their feet and looked dangerous down the left.

Abdessadki nearly found himself on the end of Rabo Hosni's ball in but Fabien Barthez was sharp in the Marseille goal and claimed the ball first.

Abdessadki fed Hosni from the right but his header drifted by the stranded Barthez's right post.

Shortly after, a blocked shot for Marseille fell at the feet of Ribery who crossed for Maoulida in a good position but he failed to direct the ball on target.

Pontus Farnerud shot for Marseille but his effort flew left of the Marseille goal.

Marseille's Taye Taiwo raced through the Strasbourg defence from the left of the penalty area but his close-range effort drifted just to the right of Cassard's goal.

The home side appealed for a penalty shortly before half-time after Sabri Lamouchi launched a counter-attack and found Niang, who then passed to Maoulida as the latter ran into the box.

Maoulida was halted by Karim Haggui, but it was unclear if he had gotten some of the ball.

Marseille would not be denied in the second half.

Strasbourg only half-cleared a corner which found its way to the feet of Nasri and he unleash a piledriver from 30 yards which Cassard watched zoom past him into the back of the net.

Abdessadki wasted no time restoring parity.

Arthur Boka whipped an innocuous looking ball into the middle which somehow found its way through to the strikers' feet for him to finish from six yards.

Abdessadki continued to be influential and delivered a fine ball from the right for Carlier.

Twelve yards out and under pressure from Renato Civelli and Frederic Dehu, he failed to get a shot off.

Carlier gave the visitors the lead after being fed by Boka, though.

There was some suspicion of offside but the forward didn't fail when one-on-one with Barthez, firing in off the inside of the left-hand upright.

Ribery equalised after receiving a pass from Cana down the left.

He beat the statuesque Yves Deroff easily before shooting beyond Cassard.

Nine minutes from the end and Taiwo headed on target from Nasri's corner but Cassard blocked the attempt on the line.