PSG
Nantes
After another defeat in the Champions League, Tuesday in Munich (1-0), Paris Saint-Germain returns on Saturday against Nantes to a Ligue 1 that it flies through with the limited lessons it can draw from it.
The Parisians are thus hovering above the L1 (1ers with six points ahead of their runner-up Monaco) but are on the edge of the precipice in C1, occupying with four points a 25e place on 36 synonymous with theoretical elimination, before the last three matches.
It is therefore difficult for the players, the coach and the observers to use Ligue 1 as a benchmark for the real level of PSG, perhaps even more so this year than in previous championship seasons.
Nantes, a priori easy prey
“What makes you think that Ligue 1 does not have the sufficient level? Brest, Monaco and Lille are high in the Champions League rankings »however counterattacked coach Luis Enrique on Friday. And the Spaniard thinks anyway that “the ranking (European) of PSG is not deserved »he who saw “positive things” in the Champions League.
Tuesday evening against Bayern Munich, full of stars, his team was not unworthy, especially in the midfield and in the general intensity. But she never really worried the Bavarians offensively, and did not even have the multiple scoring opportunities that she had been able to create during previous European meetings.
There is no doubt that Nantes, defeated five times in its last six matches, will appear to be easy prey on Saturday. But a shower of goals would not offer certainty to PSG, who must absolutely beat Salzburg on December 10 if they want to preserve the hope of avoiding a pitiful elimination in the first round of the Champions League, unprecedented under QSI.
“It's a match where we can repeat behaviors that we want to see in the Champions League, underlined Luis Enrique. Yes we need to win points in the Champions League, but we have to start doing it in Ligue 1.”
Without the Nantes supporters
On Saturday, adversity will not come from the stands. The Ministry of the Interior issued an order on Friday banning the travel of FC Nantes supporters to Paris. Minister Bruno Retailleau made this decision in view of the announced presence of “more than 1,000 Nantes supporters including 250 ultras, members of the Loire Brigade”.
A procedure for dissolving this Loire Brigade, members of which invaded the pitch last Sunday during the match against Le Havre, is also under study.
This Saturday, November 30 at 9 p.m., on DAZN.
