In the midst of a media storm since the list of transfers of Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe following their altercation in the locker room after defeat in Rennes (1-0), Olympique de Marseille is leaning a new potential hard blow. Facundo Medina was injured in the ankle during Tuesday training and the Argentinian defender left the crutch session.
Examinations are underway, but the way he left the field of the Robert Louis-Dreyfus center is not reassuring. His participation in Saturday's match against Paris FC, on behalf of the 2nd day of Ligue 1, is already understood.
Who will play with Balerdi?
Recall that Medina had already missed the first day against Rennes, not because of an injury, but a suspension contracted with the RC Lens last season. Its potential absence is added to an environment already weakened by unpublished internal tensions and a chaotic context, between disciplinary crisis and defensive uncertainty, weakens the stability of the group.
For Roberto de Zerbi, already forced to line up Geoffrey Kondogbia in a hinge last week, the situation even becomes a little critical. The staff counted on Medina to form a central pair as complementary as they are argentina with Leonardo Balerdi. In his absence, the Italian coach could again trust the English recruit, CJ Egan-Riley, the first of which was rather promising despite the defeat in Brittany.
If Facundo Medina is absent for a longer duration, this will also put additional pressure on Medhi Benatia to recruit a central defender by trade. OM is bogged down in the Joel Ordonez file, for which Bruges claims more than 37 million euros, and it seems unlikely that things are unlocked immediately
This new hard blow illustrates the fragility of a workforce in full swing: between human crises and physical unforeseen events, Marseille must already manage an earlier crisis than ever, as the already important reception of Paris FC.
