The PSG champion has visited Strasbourg and the one playing “for something” is Messi: to improve his poor numbers at the French club

Paris Saint Germain will debut their French Ligue 1 title this afternoon when they visit Strasbourg at the start of matchday 35.

The team led by Argentine Mauricio Pochettino along with his compatriots Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María but without the injured Leandro Paredes and Mauro Icardi will play from 4:00 pm at the Meinau stadium in Strasbourg with a transmission from on ESPN and Star +.

PSG captured Ligue 1 on Saturday after a draw at the Parc des Princes against Lens (1-1) with a great goal from Messi.

The Parisian team, with 78 points, was 13 ahead of Olympique de Marseille, led by Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, and fulfilled its obligation to win the league title after another failure in the European Champions League.

The Argentina national team captain has reached 38 titles in his career and the first at a club other than Barcelona.

Leo has four games left to continue a goal-scoring tradition that began in the 2006/07 season.

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Messi arrived in Paris with the pain of his departure from Barcelona but with the greatest joy of his career, his first title with the Argentine National Team: the Copa América in Maracaná and against Brazil. But at PSG he found himself under constant pressure of having to win the Champions League to fulfill expectations, something that in football is impossible to anticipate.

The defeat against Real Madrid, in the round of 16, exposed a team full of stars but with little defensive spirit, exploding on attack with Mbappé and Neymar as stars, but giving up every time they were attacked . And he had to settle in the local league, something his fans didn’t accept.

One by one, Messi experienced adaptation to another competition, with greater physical friction, was absent due to injury in some games and fell ill covid after spending the New Year in Rosario. All this means that his stats at PSG are not the best, far from it.

In case he fails to score in the next four games, Messi will close out the season with the lowest average goal of his career. Before visiting Strasbourg, he has 9 cries in 29 games, giving him an average of 0.31 goals per game. A value only comparable to 2005/2006, his first full season as a starter at Barcelona, ​​when he played 25 games and scored 8 goals, to close at 0.32. And so far from 1.22 of 2011/2012, when he scored 73 goals in 60 games, Pep Guardiola’s last year at the Catalan club.

all dates

. Friday:

. At 4:00 pm: Strasbourg-PSG.

. Saturday:

. At 12: Lens-Nantes.

. At 16: Rennes-Saint-Etienne.

. Week:

. At 8: Troyes-Lille.

. At 10: Brest-Clermont; Lorient-Reims; Monaco-Angers and Montpellier-Metz.

. At 12.05: Bordeaux-Nice.

. At 3:45 pm: Olympique de Marseille-Olympique de Lyon.

Positions: PSG 78 points; Marseille 65; Rennes and Monaco 59; Excellent 57; Strasbourg 56; Lens 54; Lyons 52; Lille 51; Excellent 50; Brest 45; Montpelier 42; Rheims 40; Galit 35; Lorient 34; Troyes and Clermont 33; Saint Etienne 31; Bordeaux 27 and Metz 24.