PSG vs Marseille, match tips & line-up. Mauricio Pochettino will desire to win his first bit of flatware with Paris Saint-Germain when the Ligue 1 heroes go head to head against Marseille at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in the Trophee des Champions.
PSG got ready for this last with a resonating 3-0 triumph over Brest in Ligue 1, while Marseille were held to a goalless impasse by transfer competitors Dijon.
Match preview
Pochettino couldn’t control Tottenham Hotspur to a significant prize during his five-and-a-half years in charge in North London, yet the Argentine could win his first bit of flatware with PSG under about fourteen days in the wake of assuming responsibility.
The Trophee des Champions is challenged each year between the Ligue 1 and Coupe de France champions, and obviously, PSG have appreciated an unrivaled spate of predominance in the competition as the years progressed.
The 2018-19 season checked one of the uncommon events that PSG neglected to guarantee the class and cup twofold – with Rennes lifting the Coupe de France – yet Les Parisiens defeated their enemies 2-1 in the last to win the opposition for the seventh year running.
Not since 2012 have PSG neglected to lift the Trophee des Champions and they have completed as sprinters up on four events, yet Pochettino will trust that this bit of flatware will be the first of numerous in the French capital as PSG gear up for the 99th Classique meeting with Marseille.
Pochettino’s rule commenced with a 1-1 draw at Saint-Etienne before PSG facilitated past Brest 3-0 at the end of the week, and that outcome sees the Ligue 1 heroes sit just one point adrift of pioneers Lyon after they neglected to improve of Rennes.
As a conspicuous difference, Marseille have not shown up in this yearly match since 2011 and won’t feel too hopeful about their odds of ruining the Pochettino and PSG party.
Andre Villas-Boas’ men procured their entitlement to play in the Trophee des Champions subsequent to completing second in Ligue 1 last season, yet Les Olympiens have just won one of their last five matches and couldn’t discover a route past modest Dijon at the end of the week.
Monaco’s predominant success over Angers – a side whom Marseille were put to the blade by a month ago – saw Villas-Boas’ men exit the best five out of a further hit to their Ligue 1 title possibilities, despite the fact that they do at present have two games close by on the groups above them.
Marseille have won the French Super Cup multiple times since it was initially established as the Challenge des champions in 1955, and they have met PSG once before in the 2010 release, where under the tutelage of Didier Deschamps they won over Les Parisiens in a punishment shootout after a goalless impasse in an hour and a half.
Florian Thauvin’s strike gave Marseille their first success over PSG since 2011 prior in the mission, however the different sides have persevered through differentiating fortunes since that life-changing night at the Parc des Princes in which five players saw red.
PSG form: LWDWDW
Marseille form: WLDLWD
Team News
In a colossal lift for PSG and Pochettino, Neymar returned to the preparation pitches on Monday and could make his exceptionally foreseen rebound against Marseille, but likely not from the main whistle.
Presnel Kimpembe, Danilo Pereira and Leandro Paredes were all apparently put through some serious hardship also, but Rafinha and Thilo Kehrer remain out subsequent to contracting Covid.
Mauro Icardi marked his rebound with an objective from the seat against Brest and will fight the resurgent Moise Kean for a spot up top, while full-backs Alessandro Florenzi and Layvin Kurzawa should make their profits to the principal group here.
Marseille are now without Luis Henrique following his positive Covid test, despite the fact that the youngster was never prone to acquire a beginning here.
The association of midfield duo Morgan Sanson and Kevin Strootman also stays not yet decided, with the previous battling with a hamstring issue while Villas-Boas affirmed that Strootman is set to join Genoa borrowed.
Yuto Nagatomo will proceed at left-back in the nonattendance of Jordan Amavi, while Dimitri Payet is in line to replace Nemanja Radonjic on a similar side in assault.
PSG possible starting lineup:
Navas; Florenzi, Marquinhos, Diallo, Kurzawa; Gueye, Herrera, Verratti; Di Maria, Icardi, Mbappe
Marseille possible starting lineup:
Mandanda; Sakai, Gonzalez, Caleta-Car, Nagatomo; Kamara, Rongier; Thauvin, Cuisance, Payet; Benedetto
PSG vs Marseille
Away Win or Draw
Over 2.5 Goals