PSG-Brest: the Parisians must finally put on their gala outfit

They will end up believing that the fate persists.

Three years since Brest have moved up to Ligue 1. Three years since nothing has gone as planned when it comes to getting close to the stars of PSG in the capital.

In 2020, the championship was interrupted before the match at the Parc des Princes.

The following year the match was played behind closed doors.

This time it's double jeopardy.

Not only will the meeting of the 21st day of Ligue 1 be held, with a gauge of 5,000, under the gaze of a very small handful of spectators, but in addition, some of the stars will not be part of the party.

In addition to Neymar, still in difficulty with his left ankle, Leo Messi has also joined the list of absent subscribers, at the top of which already appeared the Moroccan Hakimi and the Senegalese pair Diallo-Gueye, all three mobilized by the CAN in Cameroon . Affected by the Covid during his trip to Argentina, the seven-time Ballon d'Or has not yet recovered enough to participate in the first outing of the year 2022 at the Parc des Princes and will be, like goalkeepers Letellier and Franchi (Covid) , excused this Saturday evening.

What is only a disappointment for the Bretons is, in reality, more problematic for a Mauricio Pochettino again amputated from many vital forces and undoubtedly forced to maintain the habits acquired for two years by aligning for the 112th time an eleven unprecedented departure. One month before the first meeting against Real Madrid in the knockout stages of the Champions League, time is already running out and allows few obstacles in the way of these certainties and other automatisms that PSG must pile up. hastily. He only has five games left (Brest, Reims, Nice in the Cup, Lille and Rennes) to play before putting his season on the line against Benzema and his gang.

With eleven points ahead of its runners-up Nice and Marseille, it is a little more than the consolidation of its status as leader that Paris will play this Saturday evening at the Parc des Princes in front of the 13th in Ligue 1. doubt in the minds of the greatest number that the title of champion of France will not escape him at the end of the season, his ability to cross the Madrid dike while rowing, as he does too often in Ligue 1, leaves, more puzzled.

He would therefore finally have to know how to be sovereign on the lawn, not to let the slightest hope arise in the opposing camp and to spare himself the recurring fears from this Saturday evening against Brest.

Pending wishes that only have a few more weeks to come true.