Rotation, “mental disengagement”, recovery: how PSG will manage its infernal calendar

Playing 11 matches in 44 days: this is the perilous and physical mission that awaits PSG players. It begins this Saturday with the reception of OGC Nice and will stretch until the weekend of November 12 to 13 with a meeting against AJ Auxerre at the Parc des Princes. An intense, concentrated and condensed series of matches over a particularly short period. Never in its history has the club from the capital had to deal with such a hellish pace at this time of the season, the World Cup in Qatar played from November 20 to December 18 having completely upset the usual constitution of the French calendar and European.