The 31-year-old Brazilian has missed PSG’s last two games. Federico Pestellini / PANORAMIC
One hour before the kick-off of this round of 16 of the Coupe de France between OM and PSG, the two coaches revealed their starting line-up.
Shock night. No, Classic night. OM host PSG this Wednesday (9:10 p.m., live commentary), at the Vélodrome, in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France. A poster for which the Parisian visitors, still deprived of Kylian Mbappé, recover Neymar – who will probably be associated with his comrade Leo Messi in front – and Marco Verratti, absent for the last two meetings. Sergio Ramos is also making his comeback behind and it should be noted that there is no alternation in goals, Gigio Donnarumma being preferred to Sergio Rico. Party in the winter transfer window, Keylor Navas had kept the Parisian goals during the first two rounds of the club in this cup.
On the OM side, the question will be how Igor Tudor organizes his team. Four behind? It is very unlikely knowing the habits of the person concerned … With a usual midfielder in a defense of five? It will be recalled that the Marseille coach is deprived of several players in this sector (Bailly, Balerdi, Tavares). One thing is certain: he aligns three players with a purely offensive vocation (Under, Sanchez, Malinovskiy). No Dimitri Payet, no Vitinha either, the most expensive rookie in the history of the Marseille club. In fact, it is probably Mattéo Gendouzi who will join the attacking trio, with Cengiz Under on one side. Remember that OM have not beaten their best enemy at the Vélodrome since… 2011. OM’s last qualification against Paris-SG in the Coupe de France, and moreover the only one in 11 confrontations? In 1991.
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