• Three players from the Olympique de Marseille workforce tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.

  • New tests were carried out this Thursday and others will be carried out on Friday, before the start in Bordeaux.

  • The Girondins have evoked a package for this meeting still uncertain in the face of the cases of Covid-19, while Jorge Sampaoli pleads for solidarity between the clubs.

The shadow of the Covid-19 also hangs over the Olympique de Marseille. While the Ligue 1 meeting between Girondins de Bordeaux and Olympique de Marseille scheduled for Friday (9 p.m.) is still uncertain, due to the many absentees on the Bordeaux side, it is OM's turn to be affected by the virus. Three players tested positive on Wednesday, said to be Milik, Gerson and Alvaro. Steve Mandanda and Valentin Rongier, who did not train this Thursday, are themselves affected by injuries.

“We worked on several things on Wednesday with a group of players and today [Thursday], three are not present,” explained the Argentine coach, before developing the concerns related to this situation: “It's very complicated to make game plans, in the organization, or in the 11 holder, because we can prepare one day, but the next day it will be different.

It's like that for everyone, it is up to us, the coach, to solve these problems ”.

"A need for equality for all"

A situation which is not frankly better experienced on the side of the players. “We have already experienced it in the past, we are tested every morning when we arrive at the training center, we keep the mask in the locker room, in the treatment room, we check each other with our fists. It's complicated because we had rediscovered real football, with the spectators, at the start of the season and we are going back to what we experienced last season. It's difficult, but health first and foremost, ”said Amine Harit.

In this period of uncertainty, which has turned into controversy since the request for postponement of the match by the Girondins de Bordeaux, even going so far as to mention a forfeit, Jorge Sampaoli preferred to play it collectively. “I don't think they are bluffing, they are commenting on the situation they are going through. There is a huge wave of Covids all over the world, and the main one is health. If we can't play, the match won't be played. If we can play, the match will be played. Tomorrow it could be us in this situation, there is a need for equality for all. Unfortunately in these situations, everyone is looking at their club. You have to come out bigger and everyone should stick together. My hope is just to be able to play this championship in complete health, fair and equal ”, he wished.

New tests were carried out this Thursday morning at the OM training center, and others will be carried out on Friday, just before the group's departure for Bordeaux.

No communication from the club is planned before the revelation of the convened group.

And the League should not, either, decide before Friday morning on the holding, or not of this match.

A match which could, beyond the uncertainty linked to the Covid, take on a historic turn since OM has not won in Bordeaux for 44 years.

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