PSG, with the return of world champion Messi, against Angers, for the French championship: timetable, previews, TV and probable formations

Lionel Messi, world champion with Argentina and best player of Qatar 2022, also plays this Wednesday with Paris Saint Germain and against Angers, bottom team of the French League 1, but without special recognition from the club for having conquered the top selection tournament in Arab lands.

Three weeks after the historic conquest of the World Cup in Qatar, the Argentine champion has been called up to play the match which will start at 5 pm at the Parque de los Príncipes stadium, with Star+ television.

Messi received a warm welcome from the PSG squad, staff and management when he returned to training last week.

While the French media are speculating on how the Parisian fans will be welcomed, taking into account the victory in the final against their national team, the club has decided not to organize a special recognition given that, according to the newspaper Le Parisien, the welcome received last week at the Camp des Loges training center “is enough”.

This position, however, contradicts what DT Christophe Galtier expressed last week when he indicated that he expected a “party” for the representative of the World Champion team in Qatar 2022.

For now Messi will play his first match in 2023, which will have a first half full of activities and will begin the nineteenth year of his immense professional career, which has already exceeded a thousand games (1,003) and is just seven goals away from reaching 800. goal.

The best player of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, with seven goals and three assists, returned to Paris last Tuesday and rejoined the team the next day, although he has not yet physically met Kylian Mbappé, who has been on vacation for a few days.

During the number 30’s absence, the Parisian team played three matches, two in League 1 and one in the French Cup.

On 28 December, while Messi was on leave in his native Rosario, the late French champion narrowly beat Strasbourg 2-1 and suffered his first defeat of the season three days later after losing 3-1 on his visit to the Spare lens.

Last Friday, with Messi already reinstated in the squad, PSG progressed to the next round of the Coupe de France after beating third-tier Chateauroux 3-1.

Messi last played for his team on November 13 at the Parc des Princes, against Auxerre (5-0), on the 15. Date.

Among their next goals, PSG will have six games in League 1 and between the tour of Qatar and Saudi Arabia before receiving Bayern Munich for the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League.

The ‘Pulce’ is enjoying his second season at Paris Saint-Germain after the traumatic departure from Barcelona and, after the World Cup, it was learned that he already has an agreement in principle for the renewal of his contract, which will expire in June this year.

The match will be played on February 14 at the Parc des Princes and the rematch on March 8 in Germany.