PSG-Le Havre is a match valid for the 31st day of Ligue 1 and is played on Saturday at 9 p.m.: statistics, likely lineups, live TV and predictions.
The PSG fans’ scream last Wednesday was choked in their throats. Mbappé and his teammates did their duty in the Lorient away match, scrambling 4-1 against the Bretons and collecting yet another positive result in the league – they haven’t lost even since September – but the victory of Monaco, on the pitch a few hours later, postponed the celebration of the Parisians, who are now one step away from the 12th title in their history.
The Monegasques’ success over Lille kept the distance separating Luis Enrique’s men and Adi Hutter’s men in the standings, by 12 points, unchanged. But fear not: arithmetic will likely come this weekend, when PSG need only not lose at the Parc des Princes to third-last-place Le Havre. Even a draw would allow the defending champions to kick off the celebrations. Sobering, however, as next Wednesday awaits them in the semifinal first leg with Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, the club’s main objective. Luis Enrique, who already made a full-bodied turnover against Lorient by resting Marquinhos, Vitinha and Hakimi, will continue to rotate many players in order to have them fresh for the Signal Iduna Park match, which the whole PSG environment now awaits with spasmodic anxiety.
Little Le Havre certainly cannot expect to pick up salvation points in this challenge. After a less-than-positive second half of the season – in stark contrast to the first half – the newly promoted side has become a leading candidate for relegation. And since February it has won only one game, scraping together one point in the last five Ligue 1 days. Freefall
The prediction
Luis Enrique is in a hurry to close games in the league so he can focus on the Champions League, the Parisian club’s real goal, which has become an obsession. Le Havre will not be able to resist, despite the Spanish coach’s – probably extensive – turnover. At least three goals overall.
The probable lineups of PSG-Le Havre
PSG (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Hakimi, Danilo, Hernandez, Nuno Mendes; Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz; Dembélé, Mbappé, Barcola.
LE HAVRE (5-3-2): Desmas; Casimir, Sanganté, Youté, Lloris, Operi; Kuzyaev, Targhalline, Kechta; Ayew, Sabbi.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-0
