Paris (AFP)

The match Monaco-Paris SG, postponed Sunday due to bad weather in the south-east of France, was reprogrammed Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 21:00 by the Competition Commission of the League of Professional Football (LFP), three days after a ... PSG-Monaco, announced the LFP on Tuesday.

This places the shock of L1 between the defending champion and the last club to have challenged the title midweek, between the 20th day of the Championship of France and the round of 32 of the Coupe de France, a probable new series infernal three games in a week for these teams.

Thus, the PSG, which will already play six games by December 21, will start the year 2020 as it will finish the previous one: it will enter the Coupe de France on January 4-5, then will probably have a quarter of league final to play 7-8, before going on with this double opposition against the Monegasques on 12 and 15, then with a new match of the Coupe de France on 18 or 19. And the series of a match every three days will continue between Cups and Championship ...

Initially scheduled for 21:00 Sunday at the end of the 15th day, the meeting Monaco-PSG had been postponed due to severe weather: the departments of the Var and Alpes-Maritimes, bordering the Principality of Monaco, had been placed on red alert rain -inondation by Météo France.

The Parisian delegation, already on site, had to make an express round trip.

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