PSG – Girona. Forecast and announcement for the Champions League match

On September 18, the match of the 1st round of the Champions League will be held at the Parc des Princes, in which PSG will meet with Girona. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

PSG

The team has long established dominance in the domestic arena in such a way that Bayern and Real Madrid never dreamed of it. Such a large gap is more characteristic of the championships of Central and Eastern Europe, such as Bulgaria. And, like Ludogorets, the metropolitan French project has long evaluated the success of the season by the results in the European Cup, in this case, of course, the Champions League. With Luis Enrique, it was possible to get out of a difficult group and go to the playoffs with Barcelona in the last cycle, but then relegation followed. Now we have to play without Mbappe. And the new regulation clearly hints that here even the favorites are not guaranteed anything, and they will not make it to the playoffs at all. So it was lucky that the draw gave a chance to start at home, even against a not very strong opponent. Even against the background of another victory – 3:1 with Brest, by the way, another participant of the Champions League.

Girona

The club has been coming to this debut for a long time. More precisely, they did not seriously discuss this even an hour ago – which is logical, because the project is spending its fourth season in Primera, and only the second one after returning to this place. Then there were doubts because of the same owners as Manchester City. Here it was possible to find a consensus with UEFA, but only time will tell if the breeders succeeded in covering the sales of the leaders led by the killer Dovbyk. In August, Girona started poorly, with 1:1 against Betis and 0:3 at the Atlético field. But then Michel Sanchez clearly made adjustments, and the summer was closed with a 4:0 defeat at home to Osasuna and a solid 2:0 on the field of Sevilla. But in September, Barcelona had no particular problems with its neighbor, beating it with a score of 4:1.

Statistics of personal meetings

Naturally, PSG has not met the child of the Manchester City structure on the football field before.

Forecast

Bookmakers do not believe in the guests’ chances even for a draw. Experienced Frenchmen will win at home with a handicap of -1 goal (coefficient – 1.6).