• PSG won 3-1 on Saturday in Metz and ideally prepared for their Champions League semi-final first leg.

  • Coach Mauricio Pochettino can even come forward confident before Manchester City.

    For several reasons…

  • First, because it will have an almost complete workforce.

    But not only.

At the Saint-Symphorien stadium,

Remember, it was February 14, 2015. That day against Caen (2-2), PSG lost four players to injuries: Marquinhos, Lucas, Cabaye and Aurier. Three days before the reception of Chelsea in the knockout stages of the Champions League… This disaster scenario has not happened again a little more than six years later. In Metz this Saturday, Paris won quite easily (3-1) and did not have to declare any injuries. There is indeed an alert concerning Kylian Mbappé, but nothing that should prevent Mauricio Pochettino from sleeping.

The Argentine coach can even come forward confident before the arrival of Manchester City on Wednesday in the semi-final first leg of the C1.

For several reasons.

Already, therefore, because it will have an almost complete workforce.

Long-term injured Bernat aside, everyone should be there.

Even Marquinhos, affected from Munich.

“He's training well, we'll see how he is for Wednesday.

We hope that he will be part of the group, ”reassured the technician, visibly confident.

Towards a quadruple history?

Another reason for satisfaction, the PSG is in the nails in all the competitions in which it participates. In Moselle, he took over the lead of Ligue 1 in Lille (before the OL-LOSC shock this Sunday) and Neymar and co are in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France. Not to mention that the Champions Trophy is already in the trophy cabinet. A quadrupled history therefore remains relevant.

Finally, and this is perhaps what should reassure Pochettino the most, is that his team is showing its strength in every outing at the moment. Bright in Munich (3-2), she had suffered but never panicked on the return against the Germans (0-1). Meanwhile, the partners of Presnel Kimpembe had walked in Strasbourg (4-1) before overthrowing Saint-Etienne (3-2) with an extraordinary mind. Then crush Angers (5-0) and control Metz (3-1) without ever leaving the impression of being taken.

In Saint-Symphorien this Saturday, Mbappé and his family may have doubted a quarter of an hour, no more.

The time that the French goleador does not register a new double (5th, 59th) and quickly restore order.

Mbappé is in dazzling form and, more broadly, the squad seems to have imbibed the Pochettino style.

It hurts, it plays fair, it rattles less and it… wins almost all the time.

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