FC Nantes match preview
By: j | September 11th, 2008The long hibernation is over. Yes my friends the International week is thankfully over and we can get back to Football. PSG welcomes a struggling FC Nantes to Parc des Princes this Sunday and Paul Le Guen is keenly intent on picking up where they left off.
Recent Form
FC Nantes – combined (0 W, 1 D, 3 L) (3 GS, 9 GA)
Aug 9 Auxerre 2 – 1 Nantes
Aug 16 Nantes 1 – 1 Monaco
Aug 24 Girondins de Bordeaux 2 – 0 Nantes
Aug 30 Nantes 1 – 4 Le Mans
PSG – combined (2 W, 1 D, 1 L) (GS, GA)
Aug 9 Monaco 1 – 0 PSG
Aug 16 PSG 1 – 0 Girondins de Bordeaux
Aug 23 Sochaux-Montbéliard 1 – 1 PSG
Aug 30 Caen 0 – 1 PSG
recent Nantes @ PSG – combined (4W, 0D, 1L)(10 GS, 3 GA)
2006/2007 PSG 4 – 0 FC Nantes
2005/2006 PSG 2 – 0 FC Nantes
2004/2005 PSG 1 – 0 FC Nantes
2003/2004 PSG 3 – 2 FC Nantes
2002/2003 PSG 0 – 1 FC Nantes
Nantes new manager Elie Baup has his work cut out for himself as the club has started the new campaign in Ligue 1 miserably with a single point after four matches. Since taking over last week he has had to deal with a porous defense and an offensive attack that has yet to get untracked. However they do have a number of promising players, particularly Croatian striker Ivan Klasnić and Serbia’s midfielder Stefan Babović and are capable of better play then they have shown. However they have been playing like a defeated squad, lacking confidence and spending more time thinking how things will fail as opposed to how to succeed. For Mr. Baup, discipline in marking, lines and concentration is key or they will dig themselves a deep hole early that might be impossible to get out of.
PSG will be hampered with the loss of Claude Makélélé for the match and Mamadou Sakho for upwards to six weeks. Sammy Traoré or Larrys Mabiala are expected to step-in for Mamadou with Jérémy Clément taking Claude’s role. Paul Le Guen will be careful with fatigue levels as they face Kayserispor of the Turkey’s Süper Lig in UEFA Cup action next Thursday. PSG is said to be experimenting with a 4-2-3-1 using Mateja Kežman as the lone striker and will look to choke Nantes hopes early and crush their wounded confidence.
I will report on match as it concludes.
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