On the eve of Nice/PSG, the capital club has not released the list of players who will not participate in the match but only three names are expected on this list of absentees. Plus the now famous Dembélé uncertainty.
On the eve of Nice/PSG in Ligue 1 (7th day), the capital club has for once not released a medical update and it is therefore difficult to know who will definitely be absent. Paris found no less than five players during the trip to Arsenal last Tuesday (DonnarummaNuno Mendes, Vitinha, Gifted et Asensio), these five have been training ever since and so there have been no relapses concerning them nor obviously any new injuries, which is excellent news.
The certain absentees from Nice/PSG on the Parisian side will therefore be the club’s long-term injured, whose condition changes very little and which the club summarized as follows nine days ago: “Presnel Kimpembe continues its performance program. `Lucas Hernandez continues its recovery protocol. `Gonçalo Ramos continues his rehabilitation. » Since then, nothing has seemed to change, except that Kimpembe is clearly no longer with the professional group in training. But during the club’s last medical update on Thursday, Kimpembe was not mentioned at all.
Luis Enrique does not confirm Dembélé’s return for Nice/PSG
Besides the possible bad surprises on match day, the fourth absentee for this Nice/PSG could therefore be Ousmane Dembele’s. The winger deprived of a trip to Arsenal by his coach for behavioral concerns returned to the group this Friday, he is therefore applying for a place in the group, in theory, and the Spanish coach announced on Monday that he did not want to prolong the ‘affair. In the meantime, Dembélé missed the resumption on Thursday due to angina, returning to the group only on Friday.
But, above all, Luis Enrique refused to confirm his return this Saturday at a press conference, with a rather particular speech. At first, he seemed to announce a return of Dembélé to the group: “As I told you at the time, when a player does not fulfill his obligations to the team, he is not ready (to play). When he complies with the team rules, he’s ready, and right now that’s the case with every player on the team. »
“I repeat: each player has a series of obligations towards the team and must fulfill them. To date, all players have completed them”
But when a journalist asked him to confirm that Dembélé was going to return for Nice/PSG, Luis Enrique did not want to answer clearly and simply: “I repeat: each player has a series of obligations towards the team and must fulfill them. To date, all players have completed them. If tomorrow there is one who does not fulfill them, seriously, then I will make the necessary decision whether it is good, easy or difficult. I have no problem making difficult decisions in these types of situations because I always think about the best interests of the team. I may or may not be wrong, and that’s another debate, but what is clear is that I will always make my own decisions. No one will take them for me. It’s my responsibility as coach of this team. »
While PSG should therefore have a rather empty infirmary for this match and on the sidelines of the Dembélé case, OGC Nice on the other hand suffers from several absences which weigh, particularly in the offensive sector as explained in this article:
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