In Paris as in Marseille, it remains a highly anticipated match.
OM-PSG is this Sunday at 8:45 pm in a sold-out Velodrome, a stadium where the Marseillais have not beaten the Parisians for 10 years ... Last year, OM then coached by Villas-Boas the won at the Parc des Princes after 20 games without a win in the clasico.
And this year, the players of Sampaoli, who have made a good start to the season, want to believe it against a difficult to pin down PSG, who wins (almost) all the time but without really convincing.
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For Mauricio Pochettino, this would be the ideal moment to combine efficiency with the expectations of good play aroused by an XXL squad.
Because the Parisian coach knows it and does not hide it: in this kind of confrontation, "there are not only three points at stake".