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While the league after the international break is resumed for most teams in France’s top class next weekend, the final in the Bordeaux will be in the Coupe de la Ligue. With the two leaders of the French Ligue 1 comes to the dream final Paris Saint-Germain against AS Monaco. Already last year, this match came in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue, which Paris clearly won 4-1 in Lyon. The championship is as good as decided, as catching up 17 points with eight remaining games to the captains will be an impossibility for Monaco. Monaco succeeds in the revenge barely a year later, or can PSG win this event for the fifth time in a row? Kick-off at the Stade Matmut-Atlantique in Bordeaux is at 20:05.
PSG:
More money was invested in new players in Paris last summer, but once again it was not enough to bring the Champions League handlebar to France. In addition to the necessary experience, there was also a lack of luck in the decisive phase. Not only that, the defending champion Real Madrid was already in the second round zugelost, to make matters worse injured before the second leg with Neymar the most expensive and arguably most important player of the Parisians. The 26-year-old Brazilian fails with a hairline fracture in his foot for the remainder of the season. With 20 goals in 20 league games, Neymar has the team’s best goal scoring, but Uruguayan Edinson Cavani was even more successful with 24 league-goals to make up for losing the Brazilian.
From effects after the Champions League out you did not notice the Parisians. Already in the following game, FC Metz was dealt 5: 0. The last two games against Angers and Nice were also won 2-1. Even without Neymar, the offensive machine is still running at full speed. With 95 goals scored, there’s a huge hole in the league’s second-best offense, Monaco’s, which scored 21 goals less in a backhanded game. In the last game against OGC Nice, the supporters of the capital had to wait until the final stages for the opening goal. Only in the 82nd minute succeeded the experienced full-back Dani Alves the 2: 1 winner. For the defender on the other side, Layvin Kurzawa, the final is even more special, after all it’s against his youth club Monaco. Before the match, the 25-year-old assured this final very seriously: “It is important for us to show our superiority. We have to win titles and break records. “After the Champions League and the supposedly secure championship title, the Parisians can focus more on the remaining cup games. In addition to the League Cup final, the Parisians are also in the semifinals of the Coupe de France, which will go in just over two weeks on the stage.
Monaco:
The (still) reigning champion from Monaco is at the mercy of the financial dominance of the Parisians. All the more impressive was the title last season, in which PSG could be kept at eighth points. In the summer, the Parisians but again talk money and bought young star Kylian Mbappe for up to 180 million euros from the direct rival. Also next summer threatens the AS Monaco a loss of an important player with Thomas Lemar, who recently rejected a contract extension and should be among others at the Bayern Munich theme. Hardly a team can cope with such departures and so it is not surprising that Monaco this season, the capital city can not suffice. With 66 points after 30 games, the Monegas are in second place and are already 17 points behind PSG. The eye has to be turned to the downside, as Olympique Marseille is waiting with 59 points for his chance to get a fixed Champions League spot. Third place in France would only mean the playoff round.
For Monaco, the Champions League was much worse than for PSG. Although the expectations were not as great as in the capital cities, but with just two points to be scrapped in the group stage, was probably not on the program. The most important man at the Monegassen is the Colombian Falcao. With 17 league goals, he is by far the most successful scorer in the team. Falcao was also the decisive man in the semi-final of the Coupe de la Ligue, who scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Montpellier. In the league Monaco lost for the last time in late November of last year and was able to win the last three games against Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Lille. Here, the offensive as the opponent from Paris in the foreground. Out of the last ten league games, eight came to a close with at least four goals. In the other two games fell three goals.
Paris SG vs Monaco head to head matches
26.11.17 L1 Monaco Paris SG 1 : 2
29.07.17 SC Monaco Paris SG 1 : 2
26.04.17 COU Paris SG Monaco 5 : 0
01.04.17 COU Monaco Paris SG 1 : 4
29.01.17 L1 Paris SG Monaco 1 : 1