PSG and Leipzig meet in the hottest match on Tuesday in the UEFA Champions League groups.
In group H, the finalist of the last edition of the Champions League is in difficulty, with only 3 points obtained in the first 3 matches.
The Germans, on the other hand, have 6 and the advantage given by the last victory 3 weeks ago.
You can find the recommended tip at the end of the match analysis.
PSG: Team form, news and statistics
Regarded as the big favorite in qualifying, in group H, PSG is in a difficult situation.
He has only 3 points, after losing at home to Manchester United, 1-2, and Leipzig, away, also 1-2.
The victory in Istanbul, from the second stage of the group stage, only offered the illusion of a security that the French champion no longer has. And the last championship match, lost on the field of Monaco, after leading 2-0 at the break, says quite a lot about the mood in which Tuchel’s team finds itself.
Despite the recovery shown after the weak start of the season, PSG is not evolving at optimal parameters, so there is a risk that last year’s finalist will not leave the groups.
The Parisians desperately need the 3 points at stake, even at a score that allows them to have the direct results on their side.
Tuchel still has a lot of problems and it is not decided whether to bet on Marquinhos in front of the defense or to remove him from his usual position, as central defender. Kimpembe is suspended, and a Diallo-Danilo couple would make PSG’s defense vulnerable. Most likely, Tuchel will bring Danilo to the center of the field, where he usually plays, and the chosen system will be 4-4-2, with Di Maria and Neymar on the flanks.
Offensively, Mbappe will play alongside Kean. In fact, he will be, rather, a 4-2-4 with all the strategy oriented towards the offensive.
Gueye is also suspended, and Bernat, Draxler, Kehrer and Icardi are injured.
Ander Herrera and Verratti are uncertain.
A decision regarding the Italian will be made on the day of the match.
PSG have only one victory in the last 4 UEFA Champions League matches, starting with the final of the previous season.
Since the start of the season, PSG has ticked only two games in which it did not score, even the first two, with Lens and Marseille, both lost 1-0.
In the last 22 games played at home, in the Champions League, PSG lost only 3 times.
Once with Real Madrid (1-2) and twice with Manchester United (1-3 and 1-2).
Leipzig: Team form, news and statistics
Semifinalist in the previous edition, Leipzig has a huge chance to make a name victim from the group stage.
Julian Nagelsmann’s team has 6 points after the first 3 matches and can afford to play evenly on the Parc des Princes.
Any result other than failure, keeps Leipzig in the books for the qualification in the eighth, from a much more complicated group than it initially seemed. Leipzig managed to return the result in the round, after being led 1-0, which alleviated the disaster at Old Trafford, where they lost 5-0. As Manchester United is almost impossible to beat in direct matches, the Germans only have to try to stay above the Parisians, but for that you need a perfect approach to the match.
he Germans did not win in the last stage of the championship, in which they took only one point on the field of Eintracht Frankfurt (1-1).
Nagelsmann cannot rely on a few important players, such as Halstenberg, Klostermann and Laimer.
Tyler Adams will have a difficult mission on the right side, where he will face Neymar and Mbappe.
Upamecano and Konate will make up the pair of central defenders. The mucus is uncertain.
Poulsen will start on the offensive, with Nkunku, Olmo and Forsberg behind him.
Leipzig was demolished in the first away match of the group, 0-5 with Manchester United.
However, in the last 11 league matches, Nagelsmann’s team lost only the semifinal to PSG (0-3).
The failure in Manchester put an end to a series of 5 useful results away, 4 victories and a draw.
⚽️Statistics of direct matches PSG vs Leipzig
The two met in only two official matches.
PSG won the semifinals last season, 3-0, and Leipzig won the match in Group H, this season, 2-1.
The first meeting was a friendly played in 2014 and also won by the Germans, 4-2.
Football Prediction of the Day PSG vs Leipzig
PSG has no margin of error, after losing two of the first 3 matches in the group.
With only 3 points obtained so far, and with failures in front of Leipzig and Manchester United, the finalist of the last edition desperately needs a success in front of the Germans.
PSG can get a vital victory in the fight for qualification in the eighth, given the presence of Di Maria, Neymar and Mbappe in the first 11. I think, at the same time, that the defensive problems of the Parisians, so well masked until the match with Monaco, do not they could be corrected in such a short time. I bet on a goal game from the first half.
Bet Tips: over 1.5 goals – first half
Odds: 2.10
