Preview: Paris FC vs. Monaco – prediction, team news, lineups

Champions League-chasing Monaco head to the capital to tackle Paris F.C. at Stade Jean Bouin in Friday’s Ligue 1 motion, conscious of the potential for getting into the coveted high 4 after this weekend’s twenty ninth spherical.

The Red and Whites have claimed six consecutive high-flight victories, they usually purpose for a seventh in opposition to an opponent seeking to win three straight league matches on their turf for the primary time since returning to the highest tier.

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Paris FC’s determination to half methods with Stephane Gilli in February has confirmed to be a brief-time period masterstroke, with the capital membership’s kind justifying the decision.

The Parisians have been a spot and 6 factors away from Auxerre in sixteenth after Gilli’s final recreation in spherical 23, however Antoine Kombouare has up to now gone 5 matches with out dropping to put them thirteenth within the table9 factors above the relegation playoff spot.

Kombouare’s facet has secured two wins and claimed three attracts because the begin of March, with each successes coming in Paris.

Having beforehand notched simply two wins at Stade Jean Bouin beneath the previous head coach, consecutive victories over Nice (1-0) and Le Havre (3-2) imply the league returnees might safe three dwelling wins on the trot for the primary time since their high-flight comeback.

That consequence would require the hosts to do the double over the league’s most in-kind facet, having defeated Monaco 1-0 within the Principality in November, a end result that ended a 5-match dropping run in opposition to Les Monegasques, albeit between 1974 and 1979.

beating Sebastian Pocognoli‘s males shall be an undeniably robust problem, particularly as final 12 months’s third-positioned facet discover themselves on the cusp of rising into the highest-4 positions with six video games remaining.

Top of the shape desk after profitable six in a row, the fifth-positioned Monegasques might go away the place, guaranteeing a Europa League spot for fourth place, changing Marseille to occupy a qualifying spot for Europe’s premier membership competitors, or supplant Lille into third, a place that assures outright involvement.

While they’ve purpose to really feel optimistic about leapfrogging Marseille, who’ve suffered two defeats on the trot, Lille could also be a trickier problem, contemplating that Les Dogues are unbeaten in eight Ligue 1 matches, profitable 5 of their final six.

However, Monaco, on 49 factors, are doing their prospects no hurt, and the one-level distinction from the facet in third means they’re in a positive place to take advantage of any errors Lille (50) or Marseille (49) make of their bid to function in subsequent season’s Champions League.

Indeed, with the guests unbeaten on their travels in 2026, profitable three on the spin after taking part in out two goalless encounters in opposition to Le Havre and Nice, the touring followers will flip their facet to say a fourth away success in a row.

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Although Rudy Matondo returns from suspension, the hosts are with out a number of gamers as a result of harm, with Jean-Philippe Krasso (knee), Julien Lopez (again), Pierre-Yves Hamel (calf), Vincent Marchetti (again), Tuomas Ollila (calf), Sofiane Alakouch and Remy Riou sidelined, whereas Ciro Immobile is scuffling with sickness.

While Ilan Kebbal has neither scored nor assisted since late January, the attacking midfielder might return to the XI this weekend, aiming so as to add to his 12 purpose contributions this season (eight objectives, two assists).

That quantity is seven away from Moses Simon — three objectives and two assists — regardless of two of the Nigerian’s strikes being recreation-clinching efforts, yet one more than Kebbal’s single match-winner.

Only 4 gamers — Wesley Said (six), Joaquin Panichelli, Mason Greenwood and Ousmane Dembele (all 5) — have scored extra decisive strikes than Monaco’s Folarin Balogun‘s 4, with the USMNT ahead’s effort deciding final weekend’s victory in opposition to Champions League rivals Marseille, bringing him to 10 Ligue 1 objectives.

While they didn’t seem to undergo any harm points in opposition to the Olympians, the fifth-positioned facet are with out Caio Henrique (thigh), Kassoum Ouattara (knee), Paris Brunner (hamstring), Vanderson and lengthy-time period ACL absentees Takumi Minamino and Mohammed Salisu.

Paris FC potential beginning lineup:

Trapp; Camara, Coppola, Mbow, Sangui; Munetsi, Lees-Melou, Matondo; Ikone, Geubbels, Simon

Monaco potential beginning lineup:

Hradecky; Kehrer, Zakaria, Faes; Teze, Coulibaly, Camara, Mawissa; Akliouche, Golovin; Balogun

We say: Paris FC 1-3 Monaco

Paris FC’s dwelling momentum and recollections of November’s success within the Principality recommend they won’t be overawed regardless of Monaco’s blistering kind.

Regardless, the Monegasques’ latest away document and superior high quality on paper trace at an open contest that ends in favor of the guests.

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