After winning its first two matches of the league phase, respectively against Atalanta Bergamo (4-0) and FC Barcelona (1-2), Paris Saint-Germain returns to the Champions League this Tuesday. Luis Enrique's men take to the Bayer Leverkusen pitch (9 p.m.). A match that the German club should play without many elements.
A real massacre seems to be looming for the current fifth in the Bundesliga. In comments relayed this Sunday by L'Équipe, Bayer coach Kasper Hjulmand raised the subject on Saturday after his team's victory in Mainz (3-4). The tactician did not want to say too much and just assured that he would line up
“eleven players on the field”.
Eleven players, certainly, but perhaps not all those he would have liked to be able to line up automatically. Thus, there will be no Martin Terrier or Jonas Hofmann who have not been included on the UEFA list concocted at the start of the season by the German club. Too bad since the Frenchman, for example, scored on Saturday in his first official match after nine months away from the field due to injury.
A doubt for nine Bayer Leverkusen players
No Axel Tape or Ezequiel Palacios either, package. And there is great uncertainty regarding a long list of players. From Patrik Schick to Lucas Vazquez, without forgetting Malik Tillman and Nathan Tella. In total, there are nine elements which are not sure to be operational for the reception of PSG.
Undefeated since the start of the new C1 season, Bayer Leverkusen has not won a single match since it shared the points for its entry into contention against FC Copenhagen (2-2) then against PSV on the second day (1-1).
