AMIENS VS PARIS SG PREVIEW & PREDICTION
With only one point less than champion Paris Saint Germain in the last five matches, PhD student Amiens is in a good shape. Does the PhD student know how to make the match difficult for the champion, or do the Parisians know how to win this game for bacon and beans without too much trouble?
Amiens:
With three more contests on the program, PhD student Amiens has nine points ahead of the relegation zone and also has a much better goal difference. Theoretically, Les Licornes can still degrade, but in practice this seems impossible. Ten points were taken by Christophe Pélissier’s team from the last five matches. Only from Olympique Lyon was lost, but against exiting champion Monaco, a nice draw was achieved. Direct competitors Caen, RC Strasbourg and Lille were even defeated, as a result of which all three teams are not (yet) certain of life retention due to Amiens.
The man of the season at Amiens was without doubt Moussa Konate. The Senegalese who joined his foreign legion at the start of this season, has an average goal of three matches, more than reasonable for a striker of a PhD student. After three good seasons at FC Sion in Switzerland, the Senegalese has also proved in a top-5 competition as the Ligue 1, but if he wants to play at a bigger club in the next few years, he will have to make a real difference.
PSG:
After the 7-1 victory in the championship match against AS Monaco, the motivation of the Parisians seems to have largely disappeared. Van Girondins de Bordeaux was still won with some difficulty (0-1), but against Guingamp, the team of departing coach Unai Emery was behind 0-2 in his own home after seventy minutes. Two hits by Edinson Cavani save the honor and the point for the Parisians, but the perfect status in house is lost to the Paris top club.
The announcement of Unai Emery prior to the game against Guingamp last week that he leaves after this season at the club that is in Qatari hands may have had more influence on his players than expected in advance. The missing of the Champions League (in spite of the millions of investments of the past years) has cost the Spaniard his head and it is in line with the expectation that his successor will face the same fate if he also fails to win the former European Cup I. to win.
PREDICTION: Over 2.5 goals @ 1.37
