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Paris Saint-Germain face another tough away day on Saturday when they travel to the principality to tackle AS Monaco in Ligue 1. The French champions are now out of the Coupe de France after they were beaten by their bitter rivals Olympique de Marseille in midweek so head coach Christophe Galtier is under pressure to make sure that his PSG players are ready for Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League next week. Kylian Mbappe will likely miss out again through injury and has been joined by Lionel Messi which challenges Neymar to carry the team in their absence.
“You have to find the right words and make a realistic analysis of the match we lost,” said Galtier at Friday’s PSG press conference. “We also have to look ahead to Monaco, who are a quality team. We have to talked with the players about what did not work against Marseille. We cannot do anything about our elimination from the Coupe de France, we have to focus on what comes next, and Monaco. We have to keep cool and work on what we can do better. We have got an intense run of games. Monaco did not play in the week. We have to use as many players as possible and exploit the physical and mental freshness of everyone to get through this run of matches.”
“We will perhaps have to play in a different way given the injuries and abilities of the players,” added the French tactician. “Of course, Messi will be a miss against Monaco, but it is part of being a coach to deal with those sorts of things. We have to make a big effort to be better mentally and to win more challenges in midfield. We should expect the same kind of match as against Marseille but with different characteristics. They are a team that presses a lot, play high up the pitch with man-to-man marking in zones. There is a lot of attacking quality with several players who can feature up front. They are capable of being dangerous at any time, but we can cause Monaco problems and we have to show a…
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