Reims-PSG is a match of the twelfth day of Ligue 1 and is played on Saturday at 5:00 p.m.: statistics, likely lineups, TV and predictions.
Psgs long winning streak came to a halt last Tuesday in the Champions League, where Mbappé and his teammateshad to raise the white flagin the face of a besotted Milan and buoyed by a San Sirodeterminant in its role as 12th man. Pioli’s Rossoneri thus avenged (2-1) the heavy defeat of the first leg by putting themselves back in the running for qualification, which is still all to be won even for the Parisians.
This is not the first setback of the season for a Psg that seems to lack personality when the level rises: it had also happened a month ago in the Champions League match with Newcastle, but neither should we forget the challenge at the Parc des Princes with Nice, so far the only league defeat for the reigning French champions. At home, it is precisely Francesco Farioli’s men who are preventing Psg from occupying the first place in the standings: Nice is even still unbeaten and has one point more than the men ofLuis Enrique, also tailed by Monaco and the surprisingReims
Psg, in one of the two Saturday advances, will pay a visit to what is now a certainty in the transalpine top league, fresh off two consecutive victories.
WillStill‘s Reims, should it absurdly finish Ligue 1 today, would qualify for the Champions League preliminary round. It has 20 points, only four less than Psg, and looks down on better-equipped clubs such as Marseille, Lens and Lyon. The red-and-whites, dragged by the goals of the Maltese strikerTeuma(already 4 in the league), have lost only two games since September, both in front of their own public against Brest and Monaco. It will not be easy to stop a Psg that, beyond the defeat to AC Milan in the cup, has always won in the last four league days, never scoring less than three goals.
The prediction
Wounded by the San Siro defeat, Psg goes on the hunt for redemption against a team that is doing very well as Reims andis fourth in the standings with full merit Despite the absences of Hakimi (disqualified) and Kolo Muani, the Parisians should come out on top in a matchfrom at least three goals in total
The likely lineups for Reims-PSG
REIMS (3-4-3):Diouf; Agbadou, Okumu, Abdelhamid; Foket, Richardson, Matusiwa, Wilson-Esbrand; Ito, O. Diakité, Daramy.
PSG (4-3-3):Donnarumma; Mukiélé, Marquinhos, Skriniar, Hernandez; Zaïre-Emery, Ugarte, Vitinha; Dembélé, Gonçalo Ramos, Mbappé.