The latest edition of Le Classique will take place on Sunday when Marseille welcome Paris Saint-Germain to Stade Velodrome for matchday five of Ligue 1.
This will be the 110th meeting between the two sides across all competitions, arriving at a time when Les Olympiens sit eighth in the standings while Les Parisiens occupy top spot.
Having finished second last term, a hefty 19 points behind PSG, Marseille entered this campaign hoping to mount a stronger challenge against the powers that be in Paris, but Roberto De Zerbi has not enjoyed the dream start to the campaign.
The Italian has endured a slow beginning to his second season in charge, marred by off-field fracas and inconsistency, with Les Olympiens alternating between victories and defeats, their six points leaving them already six adrift of the reigning champions.
Although De Zerbi’s men were rampant last weekend, smashing four past Lorient without reply, they failed to carry that momentum onto the continental stage, where the French side fell 2-1 to Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu.
Timothy Weah’s opener made him Marseille’s first Champions League debutant scorer in sixteen years, yet it proved little more than a footnote as the Olympians squandered their numerical advantage, undone by Kylian Mbappe’s strike from the spot.
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