Tremendous enthusiasm in France and also in Israel for the Super Cup meeting between Paris Saint-Germain and Nantes tonight (Sunday, 21:00). Leo Messi and his friends who trained yesterday on the grass in Bloomfield will take to the field again in order to win their first title of the season, which they lost last year to Lille, when at that time the flea was not yet part of the team.
In yesterday’s training, coach Christophe Galtier, who will make an official debut on the lines, practiced a formation of three brakes with Sergio Ramos, Presnel Kimpamba and Marquinhos, who was next to him at the press conference. The new coach claimed that he was not looking to impress, but simply to win the title, and a significant part of the questions addressed to the two were actually about Neymar, and less about the flea.
On the field itself, there was enormous enthusiasm in training for every touch of Messi on the ball, and this evening is not expected to be any different. At Lakip they emphasized that the two main goals of the flea this season are winning the World Cup and the Champions League with Paris, when he looked sharp already at an early stage of the season. The Argentinian will certainly not object to winning another official title, which will raise his balance to 41 such, just one less than the record holder Dani Alves.
The estimated composition of PSG: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Ashraf Hakimi, Sergio Ramos, Presnel Kimpamba, Marquinhos, Nuno Mendes, Marco Verratti, Vitinia, Leo Messi, Pablo Sarabia and Neymar.
Meanwhile, in France they also dealt with the issue of the Moroccan defender Ashraf Hakimi. The player who arrived in Paris last season and participated in the Super Cup against Lille in Bloomfield last year received boos every time he touched the ball, especially in light of his tweet in May 2021 where he wrote “Free Palestine”. The coach at the time, Mauricio Pochettino, said of him that he was good in the game, despite the circumstances. At ‘Le Parisien’ they wondered if the issue would repeat itself this time as well, and they believed it would.
Meanwhile, a little more than a month until the end of the summer transfer window, and the team from the City of Lights is still far from closing its roster. Last season the club had no less than 33 players in the senior squad, which is quite unusual, and this season the French do not want more than 25 players. The favorites to leave in the near future are Georginio Wijnaldum, Tilo Kehrer, Rafinha and Andrew Paredes.
