GALTIER DOES NOT ENSURE ITS OWNERSHIP
Mbappé, doubt until the last minute for PSG-Bayern
Published:13/02/2023 - 22:09h
Updated:13/02/2023 - 22:09h
Kylian Mbappé trained on Monday alongside his teammates in the run-up to the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Bayern Munich. However, Christophe Galtier, PSG coach, left the reappearance of the '10' up in the air
Paris Saint-Germain will receive the Tuesday to the Bayern Munich without Kylian Mbappé to tope. The '10', in fact, will be doubt until the last previous minute to the gone of the eighth of final of the Champions League, although the Monday trained beside his mates and already was inscribed for the party in the Park of the Princes. The forward follows working to recover of a muscular injury in the thigh of the left leg, to the height of the biceps femoral, a week before the planned.
However, Christophe Galtier, technician of the PSG, left clear that will not risk with Mbappé for the Tuesday. "Tomorrow we will ask him how it feels , how it can project in the party. And also we will speak with the medical body. Kylian Has done a big work to do all the possible for being tomorrow, but is not safe that can be. If finally we inscribe him it will be to play, do not know what time, but will not be of ornament", explained the trainer Frenchman.
The player of 24 years lesionó the past 1 February in a party of Tie 1 in front of the Montpellier by a crash with Leo Leroy. This day, the '10' only was 20 minutes in the field and failed a penalti by double game (the collection was repeated, with Benjamin Lecomte cutting across both shots). The time of drop for this type of injuries is of three weeks, but the '10' has worked hard to reappear in record time.
Galtier Puts to the Bayern like favourite
Although the PSG yes will recover to Leo Messi for the gone in front of the Bayern, the míster Frenchman tried to evade the pressure giving like favourite of the eliminatory to a Bayern that classified with holgura in the phase of groups on Inter and FC Barcelona. "If we analyse all the results and the statistical can think that they are they the favourites, but is a party of League of Champions and my players have experience to face this type of duels", said Galtier.
In this sense, the trainer of 56 years considers that the eliminatory this in 50 % for each team, further of the altibajos of both in the last weeks. "The Bayern had a bad moment after the World-wide, but have recovered . We still no, by different reasons, but have a staff tomorrow more complete that in the split precedents", argued the technician. For Paris, the one of the Tuesday is the first 'final' of the season, since a new failure in eighth of Champions would be catastrophic for the club.