This is a new major test that awaits the French champion in Poland this Thursday (8:45 p.m.).
In Kielce, PSG will have the sole objective of winning their second consecutive success in the 2020-2021 Champions League, which will allow them to balance their record after four games.
In clear return to form since the beginning of the month, the capital club will nevertheless have to do without Nikola Karabatic, which we know since Monday that he will be unavailable for at least six months.
PSG never stops winning ...
The complicated start (despite the victory) in the league against Aix, then the two consecutive defeats in LdC against Flensburg and Meshkov Brest had sown doubt.
Since their setback in Belarus, the Parisians are doing much better.
In three weeks, Raul Gonzalez's players have chained five victories in all competitions, with an impressive average of goals scored (37.4 per game).
Among these successes, that acquired in Coubertin last Thursday against the Norwegians of Elverum and the former Parisian Luc Abalo allowed them to open their counter in the Champions League.
... but lost Luka Karabatic
This is the very bad news that taints the picture.
Injured on Saturday in Ivry following a poor reception, the star of the France team, who was in very good shape, underwent exams on Monday morning.
The diagnosis is final: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee for the Parisian rear, ie at least six months of unavailability.
To replace him as playmaker, the Spanish tactician will have to rely on Nedim Remili, Mikkel Hansen, and the young Sadou Ntanzi (20).
Thank you for all your messages which motivate me to return to the highest level after this injury ❤️ # thank you #gracias #danke #hvala #thanks pic.twitter.com/wfZ4Xkcst2
- NIKOLA KARABATIC (@NKARABATIC) October 19, 2020
Kielce, the bad memory
It was a little less than a year and a half ago.
In the quarter-final first leg of the event, the Parisians had suffered a real disillusion (24-34) in the winner of the Champions League 2016. On the return, they took nine goals (35-26) out of the ten behind and therefore fail for the first time since 2015 at the doors of the Final Four.
After four games played (3V, 1D), Kielce is leading the group, thanks in particular to Nicolas Tournat, the international tricolor arrived this year from HBC Nantes.
A destination that Dylan Nahi, the PSG winger, will find again next year and for four seasons.