3 TIPS for PSG – Strasbourg 17-02-2018

Still licking the wounds of failure in the Champions League, Paris Saint-Germain welcomes Strasbourg this Saturday, February 17. In the Parc de Princes, the game is part of the schedule of the twenty-sixth round of the French Championship 2017/2018. The beginning is scheduled for 14h (Brasília time).

PSG’s recent performance

On Tuesday, February 14, PSG made it the most anticipated game of the first leg of the round of 16 of the European Champions League. At the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid, he left in front of Real Madrid. It did, however, take the turn. He lost by 3 to 1 and now will have to reverse the disadvantage in the game of slack, scheduled for March 7.
Until then certainly the team and especially the coach Unai Emery, considered one of the main responsible for the failure, should be the target of much criticism from the fans and the press. The decisions that the coach has made in Spain also have the potential to cause relationship problems.
One of them was the withdrawal of Brazilian defender Thiago Silva (16 matches in the 2017/2018 French Championship without a goal) from the starting lineup. Captain of the team and friend of the owner of PSG, the defender was an absolute starter until in so. It remains to be seen how he will react in the following days to be barred.
That, however, was not the coach’s most questionable decision. Emery saw his team lose by leaving two fast and efficient strikers on the bench. He chose not to use the German Draxler (20 games, two goals) nor the Argentinean Angel di Maria (19 games, six goals). By taking the field scorer Edinson Cavani (23 games, 21 goals), he preferred to put defender Thomas Meunier (14 games, three goals).
That should make the coach the main target of criticism, but not the only one. Neymar (18 games, 18 goals) did an overly individualistic performance and far below what was expected. Another who also left ‘burned’ of the game was Argentine midfielder Giovani Lo Celso (21 games, one goal). He unnecessarily committed the penalty that allowed Real Madrid to tie the game at the end of the first half.
All this situation means that there is the possibility of a significant number of changes in the starting lineup for Saturday’s match. Series a form of self-defense by Emery. Despite PSG leading the French Championship with 65 points (21 games, two draws and two defeats), to be in the final of the French League Cup and still in the fight for the title of the French Cup, the achievement that really interests the supporters and top-haters of the club is the Champions League.

The current form of Strasbourg
Strasbourg will enter the field knowing that it may be a victim of the situation of PSG, who need an immediate reaction. At least he took advantage of the previous game and managed to breathe in the fight against relegation.
By beating Troyes 3-1, he had 30 points (eight wins, six draws and 11 losses). It occupies the thirteenth place. It has a margin of five points in comparison with the Angers, eighteenth place and first in the relegation zone.
Enough not to take the sleep of coach Thierry Laurey, who has two medical problems to administer before the game this Saturday. Defender Kader Mangane (18 matches in the French Championship 2017/2018, one goal) and midfielder Benjamin Corgnet (seven games, no goal) are in the process of recovering from injury.

History of the PSG vs Strasbourg matches
Strasbourg were responsible for one of PSG’s rare defeats in the 2017/2018 season. In the first round of the French Championship, scored 2 to 1. The change was not late. Less than two weeks after being beaten in Ligue 1, PSG knocked out the French League Cup rivals by scoring 4-2.

After the failure on Tuesday, PSG will be forced to give an immediate response trying to contain the crisis that opened due to the failure in Madrid. With technical quality much superior to the Strasbourg is the best option of guess for the confrontation. It has a price of 1,062 on Bet365. Draw returns 11.00. Success of visitors multiplies the investment by 29.00. Quotes were in effect at 15:36 on 2/15/2018.

– PSG win @ 1.062
– DRAW @ 11.00
– Strasbourg win @ 29.00

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