PSG arrives in Portugal with Mbappé but without Verratti, more and more uncertain

Paris SG landed Saturday August 8 in Faro (Portugal), where it will remain three days before its Champions League quarter-final: the injured Kylian Mbappé and Marco Verratti are summoned but the Italian did not make the trip according to the press announcing it forfeit against Atalanta Bergamo.

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This is more bad news for PSG, which is playing its quarter-final on Wednesday. According to RMC Sports, Verratti, who had a calf injury this week, did not accompany his teammates on the plane to Faro on Saturday, where the club will undergo a three-day preparation camp.

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According to the media, the club of the capital recorded the package of "Little Owl" for the quarter-final in Lisbon, while his participation in the rest of the tournament remains uncertain. Coach Thomas Tuchel, also injured - he sprained an ankle! - had not hidden in the middle of the week his concern about the case of Verratti, victim of a "significant contusion" to the right calf.

The Italian, on the other hand, is part of the group of 28 players called for this camp, as is the French striker Kylian Mbappé, who continues to recover from an ankle injury. His compatriot Layvin Kurzawa, who suffers from a muscle injury to a thigh, is also in the game, as well as the German Thilo Kehrer, affected in an ear according to several media.

Mbappé and Kurzawa are in any case well of the trip to Faro, according to the few pictures distilled by the club on its social networks in the afternoon.

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But the absence of Verratti, if it is confirmed, will make the Parisian eleven even more hairless, already deprived of Angel Di Maria, suspended for the quarter-final, and perhaps of Mbappé, launched in a race against time for come back from injury in time.

Twenty-eight players make up this expanded Parisian group including several young people including Kays Ruiz-Atil, Arnaud Kalimuendo and Timothée Pembélé.

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