The dominance and the ball belong to Nice, which, however, finds it difficult to find the best way to hurt in the rival area. Leo, away from the goal, as a kind of hitch or false 9 (at times), exhibits his best virtues with bursts.
A change of front by Sergio Ramos, meters from his area, leads to the reception of Thuram. The 22-year-old Frenchman feints and solves badly, left-footed, what could have been the tie.
Lionel Messi receives in the area and defines first, left-footed, away from goalkeeper Schmeichel. PSG had done little, but the crack solves the mystery with an inspiration, after the explosion of Nuno Mendes from the left sector.
A shot from Thuram, who flies close to the goal and a weak shot from Igobor Moffi, who contains Donnarumma, represent two warnings from Nice against a PSG that started with more emphasis, but ended up staying. Mbappé is well marked.
While playing, he suffers in other orders. The president, the Qatari Nasser Al-Khelaifi, attended training this Friday to talk with the squad after the controversy with Kylian Mbappé and in the midst of the sports crisis of the team that has Messi as the main target of the fans. A header from Danilo Pereira, on the post, almost opened the game.
PSG came out with everything, Nice responds with bursts. It is a good start to the show, with two teams that are usually protagonists of the local contest. The local cast is in seventh position. Messi and Mbappé’s team is the leader, beyond the setbacks.
Nice receives PSG, in a match of the 30th date of the French league. Leo Messi is active: almost at the start, he throws a left-footed shot that passes close by. There is promise of good football.
Far from his best version, in an erratic season, Diego Schwartzman published an image that shows his emotion: seeing Leo Messi live, in Paris. The tennis player from Buenos Aires is a soccer fan and maintains a close friendship with Paulo Dybala.
Darío Cvitanich had a visit to Nice and was on the pitch, applauded by some fans. “There is an idea of working at the club, but I just finished my degree. Not only the club, the city, the people, they all made me feel like I was in Argentina. It makes me happy to be in a place where I was happy. I had to score a lot of goals with this shirt and people value it a lot”, said the striker who went through Banfield, Racing and Boca, among other teams. In 76 games he scored 36 goals.
Christophe Galtier presents a team quite affected by recurring injuries, particularly in the midfield, but the 3-5-2 pattern that he used to use predominates. It is made up of Gianluigi Donnarumma; Sergio Ramos, Danilo Pereira and Marquinhos; Achraf Hakimi, Renato Sanches, Carlos Soler, Vitinha and Nuno Mendes; Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe.
Nice, for its part, will take to the field with several proper names, many of them with a recent past in the Premier League. The young Didier Digard will date Kasper Schmeichel; Youssouf Ndayishimiye, Jean-Clair Todibo and Dante; Antoine Mendy, Aaron Ramsey, Hichem Boudaoui, and Melvin Bard; Nicolas Pépé, Terem Moffi and Khéphren Thuram.
La Pulga will start in the Parisian team, in his quest to convert with this shirt after more than a month without success; the last time was in the 4-2 win over Nantes on March 4.
Welcome to the Nice-PSG Liveblog, a match in which the French champion needs to win again after two straight losses in Ligue 1, to prevent the advance of his guard Lens, who is only 3 points away.