Paris (AFP)

One year after a 5-1 slap suffered in Lille, Paris SG returns to the North for a full-scale test on Sunday in Ligue 1 (9 p.m.), while its dolphin Marseille, weakened by suspensions, welcomes Angers on Saturday (5.30 p.m.) to the 21st day.

- The shock: Lille against PSG -

The last trip to the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in April 2019 left a very bad memory for Parisians, humiliated as rarely in recent years.

Nine months later, the face of PSG has a lot more radiance. The "Fantastic Four" should be associated in attack Sunday (21:00), with Kylian Mbappé and Neymar and the returns of Mauro Icardi and Angel Di Maria, spared during the victory against Reims in the semi-final of the League Cup on Wednesday (3 -0).

The only downside for the L1 leader is the injury to Marquinhos, who was absent for around three weeks.

Paris starts in Lille a marathon of nine matches in a month, the most important of which will be the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League, in Dortmund on February 18.

- Absent: Payet's private OM -

Undefeated in L1 since the end of October and the defeat at the Parc des Princes (4-0), Marseille will try to offer themselves a ninth success in ten matches and consolidate their second place on Saturday.

But against Angers, often solid on the outside, OM will have to do without Dimitri Payet, suspended.

And when it is deprived of its master to play, the team of André Villas-Boas is not quite the same: during the four games of suspension of their N. 10 this fall, after insults towards a referee, the Olympians had won only one meeting.

Moreover, the midfielder will not be the only absent holder against the Angevins, Boubacar Kamara and Bouna Sarr also being suspended.

- The tribute: Sala honored at Beaujoire -

On the evening of January 21, 2019, the Argentinian striker Emiliano Sala disappeared at 28 in the plane crash which took him to Cardiff, where he had just enlisted after three and a half years in Nantes.

A year later, the Beaujoire will pay tribute on Sunday to its old N.9 at the reception of Bordeaux (17:00), the player's first professional club. Jersey in the sky and white colors of Argentina, giant tifo, clip broadcast on giant screens, minute of applause, the stadium will revive the memory of its front center.

In sporting terms, Nantes, now eliminated from all the Cups, hopes to defend its fourth place in the championship. Opposite, the Bordeaux must stop their spiral of defeats, four in a row in the league and a pitiful elimination in the Coupe de France against Pau, National club (3-2 ap).

- The number: 11th defeat for Toulouse? -

Despite the arrival of a new coach, Denis Zanko, to replace Antoine Kombouaré, the Toulousains started 2020 as they ended 2019: with two new setbacks. The first in the Coupe de France against Saint-Pryvé Saint-Hilaire (4th division), the other in L1 during a humiliating home defeat against Brest (5-2), the 10th in a row in the league.

The trip Sunday (3:00 p.m.) to Lyon (7th), in full revival for a month, poses the risk of an 11th disappointment for the red lantern. The sad record of 12 consecutive defeats, held by the Paris Athletic Club (1933-1934), is getting dangerously close for the Violets ...

Lyonnais side, all the lights are green: final of the League Cup, eighth of the Coupe de France, victory in Bordeaux in L1 ...

Everything is better for OL, which scores a lot (18 goals in 5 games) despite the long-term injury of its star Memphis Depay. The revelation Rayan Cherki, 16 years old and radiant against Nantes in the Coupe de France, was responsible, among other things, for making the Dutchman forget.

Lyon has also just hired the services of Cameroonian striker Karl Toko Ekambi, who arrived from Villarreal, and sees further with the arrival in June of the current top scorer of L2, Tino Kadewere (18 goals).

The program:

Played Friday:

Nice - Rennes 1 - 1

Saturday:

(5.30 p.m.) Marseille - Angers

(8 p.m.) Saint-Etienne - Nîmes

Brest - Amiens

Reims - Metz

Montpellier - Dijon

Monaco - Strasbourg

Sunday:

(3:00 p.m.) Lyon - Toulouse

(5:00 p.m.) Nantes - Bordeaux

(9:00 p.m.) Lille - Paris SG

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