Two surprises in Mauricio Pochettino's eleven.
According to various sources (
RMC, L'Equipe, Le Parisien
), Colin Dagba and Julian Draxler will start this Wednesday (9 p.m., live commentary), against Bayern Munich, in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Aged 22, the first has only 124 minutes in total and four C1 matches in the legs.
He is preferred to the German international Thilo Kehrer at the right-back position, thus compensating for the package of Alessandro Florenzi (Covid-19).
Also deprived of Marco Verratti (Covid-19) and Mauro Icardi (thigh), Pochettino could have launched Moise Kean in front or opted for a three-way midfielder at kickoff, with Ander Herrera.
He favored the Draxler option.
It is also a Gueye-Danilo tandem that will be sent to the front for recovery, Kylian Mbappé being probably called upon to evolve in the axis.
Recall that two players are under suspension for the return match on April 13 at the Parc des Princes, Gueye and Neymar Jr. On the Bayern side, no surprise expected in the eleven.
It is the former Parisian Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting who should start in peak, in place of Robert Lewandowski.
The other player likely to be a starting point, Serge Gnabry, is positive for Covid-19.
Wink of history, it is two years ago exactly, on April 7, 2019, that Choupo had ... deprived PSG of a goal by stopping the ball on the line, against Strasbourg (2 -2).
The probable Parisian 11
:
Navas - Dagba, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Diallo - Gueye, Diallo - Di Maria, Neymar, Draxler - Mbappé.
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