Matchday 15: PSG vs. Auxerre

By: Thomas | November 27th, 2009

jelen_ireneusz_1

Thankfully this guy won’t be there to bother our struggling defense tomorrow.

Tomorrow at 19:00 CET this lower-midtable club from Paris will welcome lofty league leaders AJ Auxerre. In my opinion, this s a must win game. That may seem like a ridiculous demand against the table toppers, but if the situation here gets any worse drastic measures ma be necessary (i.e. Kombouare will be registering at the unemployment office). For information about AJA go to new blogger Dean’s preview at the Auxerre Offside.

Auxerre Team News:
Le Groupe Auxerrois: Sorin, Riou – Hengbart, Coulibaly, Mignot, Berthod, Grichting – Pedretti, Narry, Ndinga, Chafni, A. Capoue, Dudka, – Niculae, Contout, Oliech, Bourgeois, Quercia

Top scorer and all-around threat Ireneusz Jelen is out, as are A. Traore, Kevin Lejeune, A. Sidibe, and Alexandre Licata. The most notable fit players to be left out of the squad are Valter Birsa and Robert Popov. The reasons for these exclusions are unspecified. You can expect the formation to look something like this…

Sorin
Hengbart-Coulibaly-Gritching-Mignot
Ndinga
Pedretti-Chafni
Quercia-Niculae-Oliech

PSG should look to attack heavily as Auxerre’s main strength is in their defense. In terms of defensive strategy, one (preferably the only) defensive midfielder should be given the task of shutting down Benoit Pedretti, Auxerre’s main playmaking threat. The PSG defense would be advised to sit back or else play a disciplined offside trap to counteract Auxerre’s exceedingly fast forwards.

PSG Team News:
Le Groupe Parisien: Grégory Coupet, Edel Apoula-Marcos Ceara, Sammy Traore, Mamadou Sakho, Zoumana Camara, Gregory Bourillon, Sylvain Armand-Jeremy Clement, Claude Makelele, Christophe Jallet, Granddi Ngoyi, Younousse Sankhare, Stephane Sessegnon-Mevlut Erding, Ludovic Giuly, Peguy Luyindula, Jean-Eudes Maurice

Basically, we’re missing Hoarau and Chantome. Fun. I would like to see a lineup that looks like this…

Coupet
Ceara-Camara-Sakho-Armand
Makelele-Clement
Jallet-Giuly-Sessegnon
Erding

But we’ll most likely see a 4-4-2 with the same keeper, defense, and defensive center mids, but with Jallet/Giuly on the right and Sessegnon on the left with Erding and Luyindula up top.

I may or may not do a liveblog tomorrow. Do you guys want one, or will ther not be enough people?