Overview
- OM hosts Lorient after the international break, with the coach stressing a one-match-at-a-time focus before trips to Real Madrid on Tuesday and a visit from PSG on Sunday.
- The team enters the Lorient game after a poor August with two defeats and only three points from three Ligue 1 matches.
- Recruitment targeted the back line and midfield, adding late-window arrivals Emerson Palmieri, Nayef Aguerd, Benjamin Pavard, Arthur Vermeeren and Matt O'Riley.
- Benjamin Pavard completed his first Marseille training session on Wednesday after France duty and said the side must be ready immediately at the Vélodrome.
- De Zerbi acknowledged the Rabiot affair weighed on the early season and now leans on a deeper pool of 19 to 20 players for selection.