Beaten 1-0 by Bayern on Tuesday evening, PSG will travel to Salzburg on December 10 in a decisive match for the club's future in the Champions League. At least two players will miss this very important Salzburg/PSG and not the least.
The month of December spares us this time an international break, PSG will play again in just two weeks in the Champions League and will travel to Austria as part of the 6th day. With only 4 points taken out of 15 possible, PSG must absolutely win at least two of their last three matches to hope to secure a place in the Top 24, synonymous with the play-offs.
And if there is an opponent who seems on paper within the reach of PSG, it is Salzburg 2024/2025, who again lost heavily 5-0 on Tuesday evening against Bayer Leverkusen and only has 3 points after five days with already 15 goals conceded and a goal average of -12.
Dembélé suspended for Salzburg/PSG
Sent off Tuesday evening after a stupid first yellow card and a somewhat harsh second, Ousmane Dembele's will be suspended against Salzburg in two weeks and will thus miss his second match of PSG's European campaign after that against Arsenal, when Luis Enrique preferred to leave him in Paris.
No other player is suspended for this match since Salzburg's Polish defender, Kamil Piatkowski, was not cautioned against Leverkusen, who was under threat of suspension in the event of a yellow against the Germans. On the other hand, Salzburg will be deprived of its Ivorian striker Karim Konate (20 ans).
Salzburg loses its striker Karim Konaté
Holder since the start of the season and already the author of 8 goals in all competitions (including 2 in the Champions League against Feyenoord Rotterdam), Karim Konaté was injured on Tuesday evening against Leverkusen and his coach Pepijn Lijnders declared after the match that he feared “a rupture of the cruciate ligaments”. We should quickly find out more about the seriousness of his injury, but it already seems impossible that he could be there in two weeks against PSG.
In the absence of Konaté, Pepijn Lijnders could decide to line up the Serbian Petar Ratkov (21 years old, 1m93), author of two goals this season, or trust the Malian Moussa Yeo (20 years old), who has moved into the axis Tuesday evening following Konaté's injury after starting the match on the right wing.
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