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It will initially be Messi’s first game after Qatar 2022 and after he returned to France from his vacation in Argentina earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Messi, who returned to training last Wednesday, participated as normal in the practice session on Tuesday, just like the Brazilian Neymar, who was suspended from PSG’s previous league match (3-1 defeat at Lens) and preserved as a precaution last Friday in the 3-1 victory over the modest Ch\u00e2teauroux in the French Cup.<\/p>\n
“He has played an extraordinary World Cup, with a lot of physical effort and crashes. I will listen very carefully to what he tells me. I want him to be available against Angers,” coach Christophe Galtier had declared on January 5.<\/p>\n
Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Achraf Hakimi, who received a few days off after the game against Lens after their efforts at the World Cup, will not be back in the team yet. The Moroccan Hakimi, in any case, was suspended for the game against Angers.<\/p>\n
Nor will Italian midfielder Marco Verratti, due to injury, cut short his training session on Tuesday due to a right quadriceps problem.<\/p>\n
PSG-Angers on Wednesday puts the leader against the bottom side.<\/p>\n
The Parisian team will try to react after their last defeat against Lens (2nd), which allowed that team to get closer to four points in the standings.<\/p>\n
Lens visits Strasbourg (19th) on Wednesday, a team also from the lower zone, in this case as penultimate.<\/p>\n
“We have to react after our setback in Lens,” Galtier said on Tuesday. “We will have to show another face, take the game forward, find our automatisms, our drive, to return to a winning dynamic. We will also have to be attentive in defense and improve in attack,” said the PSG coach.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n