Athletic set for Marseille and Atalanta acid tests | OneFootball

After gentle warm-ups against lower-tier sides, Athletic now face Marseille then Atalanta, firm pre-season gauges before La Liga dates with Sevilla, Barça and Celta.

They head to Marseille this afternoon, with the Vélodrome friendly tomorrow at 17:30. As reported by as.com, Terzic has selected 25 players.

Agirrezabala misses out as he pursues a move to Racing, Gorosabel and Vencedor are also omitted. Injured Vivian stays behind and Gift has dropped to the B team, while Spain’s World Cup players remain on leave.

Marseille finished fifth last season and will play in the Europa League. Greenwood, 16 league goals, has gone to Fenerbahçe for nearly 40 million and Aubameyang, 10, has joined Deportivo, with Bilal Nadir leaving for Hamburg. De Zerbi started 2025-26, Beye replaced him in February and Bruno Génésio is now in charge, adding Facundo Medina and Timothy Weah.

The clubs have met four times across two Europa League ties, Athletic advanced in 2015-16 and Marseille in 2017-18. Aduriz’s strike earned a 0-1 in the 2016 round of 32, then a 1-1 at San Mamés sealed progress, though Sevilla later won on penalties. French away days have yielded three defeats in four for Athletic.

Génésio’s side have beaten Yamoussoukro 0-3, lost 0-3 to Nice, edged Nimes 2-1 and defeated Al Shahania 3-0 in friendlies. The Vélodrome holds 67,400, second only to the Stade de France, and was modernised between 2011 and 2014.

Source: as.com

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