PSG will continue this Friday against Angers (9 p.m.) its operation to climb the standings. Despite his two initial defeats against Lens (0-1) and Marseille (0-1), the champions of France can already claim the podium if they sign a fourth success in a row against the Angevins. An opponent against whom the capital club has never lost (11 wins, 4 draws) in its history.
“When we go to Paris, we have a 5% chance of winning,” argues Stéphane Moulin, the SCO coach. But football is great that it can happen a lot of things that sometimes make logic flout. Thomas Tuchel hopes to prevent him from giving Angers too much hope. For this, he is counting on the return of the efficiency of a team which has scored only six goals in five games, far from its usual standards. Especially for lack of precision when the Parisians have already struck 72 times on goal for only 21 attempts on target.
Sarabia and Draxler in competition
A waste against the goal, particularly visible at Neymar during the two games he played despite a colossal influence on the game. The Brazilian who has been chasing a goal since July 24 and the final of the Coupe de France against Saint-Etienne (1-0) will have the opportunity to open his counter this season.
Not sanctioned by the disciplinary committee after his bittersweet exchanges with Marseille’s Alvaro Gonzalez, the Auriverde star no longer seems bothered by his right calf. His small contracture felt at the end of the meeting in Reims (2-0), Sunday evening, is healed just like the muscle discomfort of Idrissa Gueye which had prevented him from making the trip to Champagne. “They did the last two collective training sessions with all the intensity necessary,” explains Thomas Tuchel. They are ready and feeling good. “
Neymar should be associated with Kylian Mbappé and Mauro Icardi in attack. To replace Angel Di Maria, who is serving the first of his four suspension games, Julian Draxler and Pablo Sarabia are in the balance. Layvin Kurzawa (suspended) and Thilo Kehrer (adductors) are the other two absent.
