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Paris Saint-Germain is fixed. After removing Bayern Munich from the Champions League Tuesday night, the capital club is preparing to challenge Manchester City in the last four, with a first leg scheduled for April 27 or 28. With or without Marquinhos and Marco Verratti? Released during the first half in the first leg, all after scoring the second Parisian goal at the Allianz Arena (3-2), the first named suffers from adductors and was therefore absent when he returned to the Parc des Princes. Start of the week. As for the second, he did not take part in the first leg or the return leg. Package on the way out because positive for Covid-19, the Italian midfielder was back in the group for the return but not used by his coach Mauricio Pochettino, considered too short physically. So, will both players be back and present for the new shock that looms at the end of the month?
Optimism for Verratti, uncertainty for Marquinhos
As for the transalpine international, he should be there. Barring a physical glitch, Marco Verratti will have effectively regained all his physical means to challenge Pep Guardiola’s team. Between now and this meeting, Paris Saint-Germain must play three matches: two in the championship against Saint-Etienne (this Sunday, 1 p.m.), then Metz (03/24), as well as one in the Coupe de France against Angers ( 04/21). Enough to put the midfielder back in the mix, just like his compatriot Alessandro Florenzi, in exactly the same case. The 28-year-old, who had only two fairly light collective sessions before Bayern on Tuesday, should be at “one hundred percent for the semi-final of C1” ensures his entourage.
More doubts surround Marquinhos, however. Victim of a grade 2 injury to the adductor in Munich during the first leg, the Brazilian international must observe a minimum period of unavailability of three weeks, the time for healing. This is the time between the match at the Allianz Arena and the semi-final first leg against Manchester City. If he should not participate in one of the three matches that awaits the Ile-de-France on the French scene in the coming days, Marquinhos is highly hoped to take part in the duel against the Citizens. But the medical staff has work to do.
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