Paris (France) (AFP)

Improbable match at the top and improbable great classic between misclassified: Paris SG receives his amazing dolphin Angers for the 9th day of Ligue 1, while Saint-Etienne and Lyon will play an explosive derby.

PSG-Angers, top of the extremes

We did not wait for Angers there, and yet. It is well in the dauphin of Paris SG that the West club arrives at the Park Saturday at 17:00 (15:00 GMT). In case of victory, the SCO, 16 points against 18 for the PSG, would even take the lead of the championship.

So much for the accounting issue. Remains that a world separates the 17th budget of the championship, and the slew of Parisian stars Neymar, Icardi, Silva ...

Even with a schedule charged by the Champions League, even with several executives injured or uncertain -Mbappé perhaps forfeit, Cavani and Draxler who are slow to return - the club of the capital must in principle easily win at home against a opponent who has never beaten him since returning to L1 in 2015.

"The result will depend mainly on them: if they want to get angry, it will be more complicated," admitted Angers coach Stéphane Moulin in an interview with AFP.

And Paris will have reasons to be angry: the last home run ended with a shameful defeat against Reims (2-0).

Saint-Etienne and Lyon, hung up on prestige

The biggest derby of French football has lost its beauty. Saint-Etienne and Lyon may be involved in European cups, the gala match Sunday at 21:00 (19:00 GMT) will put two dying.

With 8 points, the Greens are penultimate before receiving their best enemy, hardly better off: 11th but with a single point more.

And on the sidelines, woe to the loser: the Etienne coach, Ghislain Printant does not even know if he will be on the bench Sunday, and Lyon side, a defeat would clear for Sylvinho, always questioned, the benefit of the victory acquired in the Champions League in Leipzig (2-0).

In the stands, the clash between the clubs that cumulate 17 titles between them will be less hot: no supporters Lyonnais Geoffroy-Guichard, for security reasons.

Bottled behind

Elsewhere, the games will have the challenge of decanting a Ligue 1 always very tight and to sort the chasers PSG.

After their new defeat in the Champions League, against Chelsea (2-1), Lille (4th, 14 pts) will seek to redeem themselves on the national scene Sunday at 15:00 (13:00 GMT).

On paper, the opponent Nîmes, who fights for its maintenance, is in principle winnable, but the team of Victor Osimhen and Jonathan Ikoné, again called by Didier Deschamps for the next matches of the Blues, is not less irregular in the league.

The third Nantes (16 pts) hopes to continue his good start to the season at the reception Saturday at 20:00 (18:00 GMT) Nice, sixth.

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