Paris Saint Germain, with the stellar presence of Lionel Messi, will close his tour of Japan on Monday with a friendly against Gamba Osaka. This will be the last preparation match before the official debut of the coach Christophe Galtier which will be on Sunday the 31st for the French Super Cup against Nantes, in Tel Aviv.
The third and final friendly of the Asian tour will be played from the 7 of Argentina in the city of Osaka and can be seen live on ESPN and Star +. The first was a 2-1 victory over Kawasaki with a goal from Messi and then it was 3-0 against Urawa with Rosario as a substitute; later, he entered by Mauro Icardi.
Leandro Paredes He will be out again due to injury and it is expected that he can be in the first official match of the 2022/23 season. According to the newspaper Le Parisien, Messi will form the attacking trident together with the Brazilian Neymar and the youthful Arnaud Kalimuendo, 20 years old. Kylian Mbappé will be a substitute, since due to suspension he will not be able to be in the final for the title against Nantes, champion of the French Cup.
Hours before, Messi (and the entire PSG squad) caused a real revolution, in training. More than 20,000 people attended the training. And they shouted Leo’s goals (at least two) as if they were their own, as if they were Argentines watching the national team.
The French club shared some images and videos on social networks with the best images of training. The crack, 35 years old, who will now play as a striker on the outside (although with freedom to go down a few meters, as he likes), was, as always, the protagonist. The French coach, who replaced the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino in charge, referred in recent days to the team’s new tactic, released in Tokyo: “We are evolving into a new system, in the 3-4-1-2, so we have to assimilate it. We experienced a lot of imbalances and therefore we conceded too many situations in our arc. It’s a great line of work for the next few weeks to have a lot of people offensively and at the same time be able to maintain a fair balance”.
In addition, Galtier had words of praise for the squad that he has just inherited, and to which he will continue to make adjustments in the coming days: “I am not in a game of seduction. I am in the discovery of this extraordinary group. The group works very well. If you don’t have an ego, you don’t have champions. And without champions, you don’t win. From what I have seen for two weeks, the group lives well and laughs well together.”