Four days before a return match which will decide whether or not to continue the adventure in the Champions League, the current leader of the championship offers a rehearsal this Sunday (5 p.m.) at Coubertin. The calendar put Aix in the way of Raul Gonzalez’s men, in what looks like the perfect trap to avoid.
Continue on the path of the coronation. For those who are wondering, the title is not yet mathematically in the pocket of PSG. For the moment, it is a full box with 21 consecutive victories, and it is difficult to see how the club of the capital could miss an eighth coronation in a row. The Parisian club has the best attack (770 goals scored, 36.7 average), and apart from the end of the interrupted season of Mikkel Hansen, the squad is complete. At Coubertin, the avalanche regularly falls on the opponents’ heads, often after the break. In short, nothing to fear a priori, but it would be an insult to Aix to believe that Thierry Anti’s team is the designated victim.
Aix, stronger far from home. Current third in the standings, one length behind Nantes, the Provençal club has not said its last word for the places of honor. The team led by Thierry Anti has a particularity that only Parisians can claim: it travels very well. In eleven trips, Aix has won ten times away from home, for a single defeat in Chambéry. Be careful, therefore, even if the statistics of the duel largely plead in favor of PSG (8 wins in a row, last loss in November 2017). To create the sensation, Aix will rely on its house pyrotechnician, Matthieu Ong (127 goals, 4th in the championship) and his formidable pair of goalkeepers, the international Wesley Pardin and the Cuban Alejandro Romero.
Elverum objective. Now that the championship is almost folded, at least for the title, PSG has another mission of greater magnitude to achieve: finally win its first Champions League. Accustomed to the Final Four, the capital club has made it its main objective. The problem is that he partly fell on a bone in the middle of last week. Nikola Karabatic and his teammates thought of returning from Norway with promises of qualification, but Elverum hung on (30-30). To reach Kiel in the quarter-finals, it will therefore be necessary to win next Thursday at Coubertin. “They made us understand that we are not invincible,” says Elohim Prandi. Whatever the adversary, it is imperative to give him no chance. “Starting with Aix.
