PSG vs. Guingamp: Team News, Predicted Line-Ups, Live Stream and TV Info
French champions Paris Saint-Germain are top of Ligue 1, but need a win against EA Guingamp on Tuesday after two consecutive draws allowed the chasing pack to narrow the gap on Laurent Blanc’s men.
PSG welcome an in-form Breton side, with Jocelyn Gourvennec’s outfit on a run of three straight victories after a trio of defeats opened the campaign.
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Where to Watch
Date: Tuesday, September 22
Time: 8:00 p.m. BST (9:00 p.m. CEST)/3:00 p.m. EDT
Venue: Parc des Princes, Paris
TV Info: Canal+ (France—9:00 p.m. CEST), BT Sport 1 (UK—shown on delay at 9:00 p.m. BST), beIN Sports (USA—shown on delay at 10:45 p.m. EDT)
Live Stream: beIN Sports Connect
Preamble
PSG are looking for their first league win in three matches when Guingamp visit Parc des Princes on Tuesday.
After winning their four opening Ligue 1 fixtures, Girondins de Bordeaux and Stade de Reims have held the capital outfit to successive draws and Stade Rennais have consequently been able to close within a point of Blanc’s men at the summit.
With the exception of Serge Aurier, who is suspended, PSG.fr's official squad list illustrates that Les Parisiens are more or less at full strength.
PSG thrashed Guingamp 6-0 in Paris back in May and Gourvennec will be hoping that his players avoid a repeat performance this time around.
The Breton club have recovered well after a poor start to the season; three consecutive opening defeats have been followed by three straight wins and they now find themselves in the top half of the Ligue 1 table.
Boosting Gourvennec is the news that notable absentees from the squad are at a minimum for the visitors in Paris, per PSG.fr (in French).
After heavily rotating his squad in Reims, Blanc is expected to play close to his strongest XI on Tuesday and Guingamp will be hoping complacency gets the better of their opponents. If it does not, Gourvennec and his men might not stand a chance.
Form Lines (all competitions)
PSG
W 0-1 vs. Montpellier HSC (Ligue 1)
W 0-3 vs. AS Monaco (Ligue 1)
D 2-2 vs. Bordeaux (Ligue 1)
W 2-0 vs. Malmo FF (Champions League)
D 1-1 vs. Reims (Ligue 1)
Guingamp
L 0-1 vs. Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1)
L 3-0 vs. SC Bastia (Ligue 1)
W 2-0 vs. Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1)
W 0-1 vs. OGC Nice (Ligue 1)
W 2-1 vs. Gazelec Ajaccio (Ligue 1)
Predicted Formations
"Paris-Guingamp : Les compos probables (LeParisien et L'Équipe) #PSGEAG #PSG pic.twitter.com/SukDOvc1qb
— Paris No Limit™ (@ParisNoLimit) September 22, 2015"
PSG (4-3-3): Trapp; Van der Wiel or Marquinhos, Silva (c), Luiz, Maxwell; Motta, Verratti, Matuidi; Di Maria, Ibrahimovic, Cavani.
Guingamp (4-1-4-1): Lossl; Jacobsen, Kerbrat, Sorbon, Angoua; Mathis (c); Coco/De Pauw, Diallo, Sankhare, Benezet; Briand/Privat.
Player to Watch Per Side
Whenever he takes to the pitch, PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic is almost invariably the centre of attention and that will be no different against Guingamp on Tuesday. However, the Swede will be the man everybody has their eye on for a different reason to their usual expectations of brilliance from the talismanic striker.
Ibrahimovic is currently enduring a difficult spell of form after a series of niggling injuries derailed the start of his season for the second successive term.
The 33-year-old is yet to score for PSG in Ligue 1 or the Champions League, and he put in one of his worst displays for the capital club in Reims last weekend.
Can Zlatan quell the growing concern that we may well have seen the best of him?
As for Guingamp, the arrival of Jimmy Briand on a free transfer this summer was a surprise move by Gourvennec and something of a coup for the Bretons. The France international is well known in Le Championnat after spells with Rennes and Lyon, and the 30-year-old will likely lead the visitors’ attack at Parc des Princes.
Briand scored a superb acrobatic effort in Guingamp’s 2-1 home win over Gazelec Ajaccio last weekend and laid on the other for strike partner Sloan Privat.
The pair could be a handful for a PSG defence that has all of a sudden looked vulnerable in the last two games after four consecutive clean sheets at the start of the season.
Key Battle
The key battle on Tuesday will be between the in-form Edinson Cavani and Jeremy Sorbon.
If Guingamp can stop PSG’s Uruguayan, who is currently on a prolific run of six goals in his last four games across all competitions, then they may well be able to frustrate their hosts for long enough for them to implode.
Cavani is not the defending champions’ only threat of course, but he is their most-prolific source of goals at present. El Matador currently accounts for half of Les Parisiens’ 10 Ligue 1 goals so far this season, and he will be hungry to add to that tally as he seeks to break into double figures as quickly as possible.
Sorbon and central-defensive partner Christophe Kerbrat will be key to that. Once they have silenced Cavani, then they can tackle the task of keeping all of PSG’s other star talents muted as well.
Odds (Oddsshark)
PSG: -909
Guingamp: +1541
Draw: +928
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