The Parisians trained for the last time on Tuesday, at the Red Bull Arena. A session which ended with a small opposition on reduced ground, ten against ten, without this allowing to clear with certainty the eleven which will begin Wednesday evening in Leipzig. Pochettino will only announce this to the players a few hours before the game. Neymar and Icardi were lined up together on one side. In the other team, we found Di Maria and Mbappé. Victim of an ENT infection last week, Bondy’s crack is fit, he will be able to take his place.
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Pochettino has put his players to work in a four-way defense, which can assume he will maintain his set-up to 4-3-3, although at a press conference he did not rule out the idea of playing three. behind: “We can play multiple systems. As a fixed system, we can start with three exchanges. But we are looking for flexibility, not a fixed image. “
Hit to one knee and plagued by muscle problems, Lionel Messi did not fly with the rest of the team. We will therefore have to compose without the Argentinian, replaced at half-time from PSG-Lille, last Friday, and who continues his solo care in the capital.
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It will be the first appearance this season in the European Cup for Angel Di Maria, who after serving his three games of suspension, is expected to form the attacking trio with Neymar and Mbappé. In addition, Paris is still deprived of Ramos (calf), Verratti (hip) and Paredes (quadriceps). In good form, Danilo Pereira has a good chance of starting as a sentry. Unless the Parisian coach decides to change the system by moving it back a notch, associated with Marquinhos and Kimpembe. Idrissa Gueye is expected in the midfield. The last place in the middle should be played between Georginio Wijnaldum and Ander Herrera.
Suspended against Lille in L1, Achraf Hakimi will return to the right of the defense, on the left it is Nuno Mendes who should start since Juan Bernat is not qualified in the Champions League. Finally, if he continues on the same logic of alternating goalkeepers, Gianluigi Donnarumma, who received long instructions from the staff during the session, should be preferred to Keylor Navas.
