PSG's short trip to Reims this Sunday evening could have been a shock between Europeans on the occasion of the 5th day.
But the Rémois are already eliminated from the Europa League after a loss on penalties conceded in Hungary on Thursday against the modest MOL Vidi (0-0, 4-1 tab).
The good news for Thomas Tuchel is his squad lies in this week of complete preparation when fatigue should win the ranks of Stade de Reims.
That's good for PSG who, in Champagne, rarely party.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappé… They all scored on the lawn of the Auguste-Delaune stadium.
But the enclosure remains cursed for the Parisians since 2012-2013, season of the rise in Ligue 1 of the Stade de Reims.
In five trips (that of last year was canceled with the health crisis) in the league, PSG have won only once.
November 23, 2013 thanks to Lucas, Jérémy Ménez and "Ibra".
Otherwise, he has two draws and two defeats, the last of which on May 24, 2019 (1-3).
In the meantime, a victory in the semi-final of the Coupe de la Ligue (3-0) slightly improves this record.
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The domination of PSG over Reims is however real if we take into account the home-away record, all competitions.
The capital club outperforms the Rémois with 11 wins, 7 draws and 8 defeats for 49 goals scored and 46 conceded.
The first match between these two clubs took place in 1971-1972.
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This Sunday evening, Thomas Tuchel could start the meeting with his "fantastic four": Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, Mauro Icardi and Angel Di Maria.
A quartet that the German has only lined up… seven times!
The “legend” of these “fantastic four” therefore remains very limited, even if 4-2-4 (or 4-4-2) is almost the norm for Tuchel and PSG since December 2019. In all cases, this quartet is limited to the gates of the championship.
In the Champions League, he never started, playing only 25 minutes in the second half in Madrid at the end of 2019 (2-2).
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Edinson Cavani is gone and he will have to replace him to score against Stade de Reims.
The Uruguayan appreciated the Champagne region and his flagship club since he had 7 goals, making him the top scorer in Paris.
Cavani is ahead of François M'Pelé in the ranking of executioners in Reims.
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By going to Reims this Sunday evening, PSG travels for the second time in a row in Ligue 1, after the success in Nice on Sunday (3-0).
This is the 77th time in its history that this has happened to him and it is not so easy to collect two victories.
Only 16 times, the club of the capital has won two trips in a row.
