Good night! Welcome to the start of the season in France, welcome to the Champions Trophy The PSG of Messi y Neymar before him Nantes. And the great absentee is Mbappe, out due to accumulation of yellow cards. The Ligue 1 champion against the surprising winner of the Coupe. These two teams will open the season in France in a match that will decide who will be the champion of champions this season.
The expectation is high with this ‘new’ PSG. And we start with the bench. The official ‘debut’ of Christophe Galtier with the Parisians… and he does it after thrashing Gamba Osaka with a final score of 6-2. And it is that PSG has added four victories in preseason… or what is the same: they have won all the games they have played.
Beyond Mbappé, PSG’s casualties are as follows: Layvin Kurzawa, Georginio Wijnaldum, Julian Draxler, Ander Herrera, Rafinha, Thilo Kehrer, Hugo Ekitike, Éric Junior Dina-Ebimbe, Timothée Pembélé.
For his part, the Nantes They are the champion of the French Cup after beating Nice by the minimum in the final and having left Monaco on the road in the semifinals. However, in their pre-season games they have recorded a narrow loss against Rennes and two wins (both 2-0), against Lorient and Caen.
The meeting will take place in Tel Avivspecifically in the Bloomfield Stadium, with capacity for 29,400 fans. It’s the same fief where the French Super Cup was played last year… and it didn’t go well for PSG: they lost 1-0 to Lille. In this way, a positive streak of eight consecutive wins in the summer tournament was broken.
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