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Played
August 22, 2010 8:00 PM BST
Parc des Princes
Referee: Mr Anthony Gautier
August 22, 2010 8:00 PM BST
Parc des Princes
Referee: Mr Anthony Gautier
Ligue 1 Preview: Paris Saint-Germain – Girondins de Bordeaux
Les Rouge et Bleu are the next side to try and benefit from the slump les Girondins continue to experience...
By Robin Bairner
Good Start
Every summer an expectation builds around the performances of Paris Saint-Germain and almost invariably les Parisiens fall flat on their face, though victory against Bordeaux in Sunday night’s showcase encounter would certainly go some way to justifying the hype surrounding this vintage of the Parc des Prince’s finest.
An opening day triumph over Saint-Etienne was incisive and deserved, while last weekend’s 0-0 draw against a strong Lille side displayed that Antoine Kombouare’s men have plenty of backbone and won’t be easy to roll over.
Even with a largely reserve side in their Europa League encounter against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday evening Kombouare’s men would not be pushed off the winning track. With only a handful of first team regulars deployed in the starting XI, PSG cruised to victory. Peguy Luyindula, who is presently the top active scorer in Ligue 1 following Mamadou Niang’s departure to Fenerbahce, and Guillaume Hoarau scored the goals.
With a perfect record in competitive football at home to defence, PSG will be confident of scooping the points, though Kombouare will likely play their chances down in the media.
A Poor Vintage
Bordeaux haven’t had the opportunity to consider European football this term, still stinging from a miserable conclusion to last season that saw them fighting on four fronts only to crumble miserably on each. Les Girondins’ league form was the crucial facet of their campaign to suffer, and the club are still feeling the knock-on effects now.
At Christmas 2009 they seemed certainties to claim the Ligue 1 title, sailing miles clear of closest challengers Lille, Montpellier and Olympique de Marseille, though their collapse was so great that they would ultimately have to settle for a thoroughly disappointing sixth – an outcome unthinkable only five months previous.
Without Champions League football to financially support the squad, Jean Tigana has basically had to work with a fractured shell of what was left by Laurent Blanc. Short of confidence, the players are desperately toiling to find their best form, as the former Monaco and Fulham boss has already acknowledged.
“Bordeaux haven't got rid of their bad habits of last season. I wasn't there at the time but I've inherited a difficult situation,” Tigana has lamented. “This is a psychological problem.”
If les Girondins are to pinch anything from this encounter, they have to rapidly shed such issues as PSG are presently on the other end of the confidence spectrum.
TEAM NEWS
PSG
Les Parisiens have a clean bill of health going into this encounter, assuming no knocks were picked up in the midweek meeting with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Veterans Gregory Coupet and Claude Makelele will be restored to the starting XI after being rested for Thursday night’s match.
Probable Starting XI: Coupet; Jallet, Camara, Sakho, Armand; Sessegnon, Makelele, Bodmer, Nene; Hoarau, Erding
Bordeaux
Jean Tigana continues to suffer from selection headaches, despite the return of Michael Ciani, Henrique and Cedric Carrasso from suspension.
Carrasso is still carrying an injury sustained with the France World Cup squad in South Africa and is not certain to feature, while understudies Ulrich Rame and Abdoulaye Keita are both missing too.
The defence hopes to regain Marc Planus, who was one of their key elements last term, in September.
Fernando Cavenaghi has been quiet in attack and will see his place come under threat from new signing Anthony Modeste.
Probably Starting XI: Olimpa; Chalme, Ciani, Savic, Tremoulinas; Fernando, Diarra; Plasil, Gourcuff, Wendel; Cavenaghi
Every summer an expectation builds around the performances of Paris Saint-Germain and almost invariably les Parisiens fall flat on their face, though victory against Bordeaux in Sunday night’s showcase encounter would certainly go some way to justifying the hype surrounding this vintage of the Parc des Prince’s finest.
An opening day triumph over Saint-Etienne was incisive and deserved, while last weekend’s 0-0 draw against a strong Lille side displayed that Antoine Kombouare’s men have plenty of backbone and won’t be easy to roll over.
Even with a largely reserve side in their Europa League encounter against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday evening Kombouare’s men would not be pushed off the winning track. With only a handful of first team regulars deployed in the starting XI, PSG cruised to victory. Peguy Luyindula, who is presently the top active scorer in Ligue 1 following Mamadou Niang’s departure to Fenerbahce, and Guillaume Hoarau scored the goals.
With a perfect record in competitive football at home to defence, PSG will be confident of scooping the points, though Kombouare will likely play their chances down in the media.
A Poor Vintage
Bordeaux haven’t had the opportunity to consider European football this term, still stinging from a miserable conclusion to last season that saw them fighting on four fronts only to crumble miserably on each. Les Girondins’ league form was the crucial facet of their campaign to suffer, and the club are still feeling the knock-on effects now.
At Christmas 2009 they seemed certainties to claim the Ligue 1 title, sailing miles clear of closest challengers Lille, Montpellier and Olympique de Marseille, though their collapse was so great that they would ultimately have to settle for a thoroughly disappointing sixth – an outcome unthinkable only five months previous.
Without Champions League football to financially support the squad, Jean Tigana has basically had to work with a fractured shell of what was left by Laurent Blanc. Short of confidence, the players are desperately toiling to find their best form, as the former Monaco and Fulham boss has already acknowledged.
“Bordeaux haven't got rid of their bad habits of last season. I wasn't there at the time but I've inherited a difficult situation,” Tigana has lamented. “This is a psychological problem.”
If les Girondins are to pinch anything from this encounter, they have to rapidly shed such issues as PSG are presently on the other end of the confidence spectrum.
TEAM NEWS
PSG
Les Parisiens have a clean bill of health going into this encounter, assuming no knocks were picked up in the midweek meeting with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Veterans Gregory Coupet and Claude Makelele will be restored to the starting XI after being rested for Thursday night’s match.
Probable Starting XI: Coupet; Jallet, Camara, Sakho, Armand; Sessegnon, Makelele, Bodmer, Nene; Hoarau, Erding
Bordeaux
Jean Tigana continues to suffer from selection headaches, despite the return of Michael Ciani, Henrique and Cedric Carrasso from suspension.
Carrasso is still carrying an injury sustained with the France World Cup squad in South Africa and is not certain to feature, while understudies Ulrich Rame and Abdoulaye Keita are both missing too.
The defence hopes to regain Marc Planus, who was one of their key elements last term, in September.
Fernando Cavenaghi has been quiet in attack and will see his place come under threat from new signing Anthony Modeste.
Probably Starting XI: Olimpa; Chalme, Ciani, Savic, Tremoulinas; Fernando, Diarra; Plasil, Gourcuff, Wendel; Cavenaghi
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Field Report
Reader's Predictions
Top 3 Predictions
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Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 Bordeaux
- 21.43 %
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Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 Bordeaux
- 20 %
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Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 Bordeaux
- 14.29 %
| France - Ligue 1 (FRA1) | Jan 20, 2013 | Bordeaux 0 - Paris Saint-Germain 1 |
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| France - Ligue 1 (FRA1) | Aug 26, 2012 | Paris Saint-Germain 0 - Bordeaux 0 |
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| France - Ligue 1 (FRA1) | Mar 25, 2012 | Paris Saint-Germain 1 - Bordeaux 1 |
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| France - Ligue 1 (FRA1) | Nov 6, 2011 | Bordeaux 1 - Paris Saint-Germain 1 |
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| France - Ligue 1 (FRA1) | May 18, 2011 | Bordeaux 1 - Paris Saint-Germain 0 |
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Paris Saint-Germain
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| May 18, 2013 | Paris Saint-Germain 3 - Stade Brestois 29 1 | FRA1 |
| May 12, 2013 | Olympique Lyonnais 0 - Paris Saint-Germain 1 | FRA1 |
| May 5, 2013 | Paris Saint-Germain 1 - Valenciennes FC 1 | FRA1 |
| Apr 28, 2013 | Evian Thonon Gaillard 0 - Paris Saint-Germain 1 | FRA1 |
| Apr 21, 2013 | Paris Saint-Germain 3 - OGC Nice 0 | FRA1 |
Bordeaux
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| May 18, 2013 | ESTAC Troyes 1 - Bordeaux 0 | FRA1 |
| May 14, 2013 | ESTAC Troyes 1 - Bordeaux 2 | FRAC |
| May 11, 2013 | Bordeaux 3 - AS Nancy-Lorraine 2 | FRA1 |
| May 3, 2013 | AS Saint-Etienne 0 - Bordeaux 0 | FRA1 |
| Apr 27, 2013 | Bordeaux 0 - Stade de Reims 0 | FRA1 |
| - | Grégory Coupet | Goalkeeper |
| 26 | Christophe Jallet | Defender |
| 6 | Zoumana Camara | Defender |
| 3 | Mamadou Sakho | Defender |
| - | Ceará | Defender |
| 19 | Nenê | Midfielder |
| 28 | Stéphane Sessegnon | Midfielder |
| 5 | Mathieu Bodmer | Midfielder |
| 4 | Claude Makelele | Midfielder |
| 9 | Guillaume Hoarau | Striker |
| 11 | Mevlut Erding | Striker |
| 30 | Apoula Edima Edel | Goalkeeper |
| 22 | Sylvain Armand | Defender |
| 20 | Clément Chantôme | Midfielder |
| 21 | Jean-Eudes Maurice | Striker |
| - | Ludovic Giuly | Striker |
| 23 | Jérémy Clément | Midfielder |
| 8 | Péguy Luyindula Makanda | Striker |
| 16 | Cédric Carrasso | Goalkeeper |
| 28 | Benoit Tremoulinas | Defender |
| 6 | Ludovic Sané | Defender |
| 2 | Michael Ciani | Defender |
| 21 | Matthieu Chalmé | Defender |
| - | Wendel | Midfielder |
| 23 | Alou Diarra | Midfielder |
| 5 | Fernando | Midfielder |
| 18 | Jaroslav Plasil | Midfielder |
| 7 | Yoan Gouffran | Midfielder |
| 10 | Jussiê | Striker |
| 30 | Kevin Olimpa | Goalkeeper |
| 2 | Vujadin Savic | Defender |
| 23 | Florian Marange | Defender |
| 8 | Pierre Ducasse | Midfielder |
| 20 | Henri Saivet | Striker |
| - | Anthony Modeste | Striker |
| 8 | Yoann Gourcuff | Midfielder |
| Nenê | |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Squad Number: | 19 |
| Games | Goals | YC | RC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nene will be the man PSG look to create them chances down the left flank and from set piece opportunities. While with Monaco the Brazilian displayed an aptitude for creating goals out of nothing and he has already opened his account with the Parc des Princes club in Ligue 1, scoring the third against Saint-Etienne a fortnight ago with a mundane tap-in. It’s over free kicks he should be closely watched, as he nearly snatched a dramatic winning goal against Lille in such a manner last weekend.
| Yoann Gourcuff | |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Squad Number: | 8 |
| Games | Goals | YC | RC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
There is a great deal of pressure on the shoulders of Yoann Gourcuff to be the man who pulls Bordeaux from their problems. The creative midfielder hasn’t really lived up to his star billing over the course of the last year but as the club’s last big money acquisition will be the man that Jean Tigana looks to in order to provide that bit of magic to undo the hosts.
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Results
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Match News
Top Scorers
| Player | Goals | Penalties | |
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic Striker PSG |
30 | 4 |
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Striker AS Saint-Etienne |
19 | 1 |
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Darío Cvitanich Striker OGC Nice |
18 | 5 |
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Bafetimbi Gomis Striker Lyon |
16 | 4 |
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Anthony Modeste Striker SC Bastia |
15 | 3 |
