Arek Milik still absent with Olympique de Marseille.

The Polish striker, whose return was hoped for Thursday's trip to Thessaloniki, where OM are to face PAOK in the quarter-final second leg of the Europa League Conference, finally had to forfeit and is not in the group that left in Greece.​

Injured with Poland at the end of March, Milik resumed collective training at the end of last week.

But this Wednesday morning, he did not participate in the last session before the start.

Only 14 regular team members available

This new unavailability is a real blow for Jorge Sampaoli, who has a very limited squad to face PAOK on Thursday.

Alvaro is dropped from the squad, De La Fuente and Balerdi are out until the end of the season and Gerson, Kamara and Dieng are suspended.

His group is reinforced by many young players but has only 14 usual members of the first team including the two goalkeepers Mandanda and Pau Lopez.

The state of form of Bakambu and Caleta-Car, absent on Sunday against Montpellier, is also uncertain.

OM beat PAOK 2-1 in the first leg a week ago in Marseille.

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