Football. ua presents the announcement of the French Cup final between Les Erbier and Paris Saint-Germain.
In the final of the Cup of France, one of the world's richest clubs and the champion of the league 1 Paris Saint-Germain will meet with struggling for survival in the third division Les Erbier.
Les Herbiers - PSG Tuesday, 22:05, Paris, Stade de France. Referee of the meeting - Mikael Lesage.
Les Erbier, based in the town of the same name in the west of France, acquired professional status only three years ago when he first entered the National Championship. The annual budget of the club is about two million euros, which, for comparison, the main star PSG Neimar earns just over two weeks.
The Brazilian himself has not yet recovered from the injury, so he will watch the game from the stands of the Stade de France, where the third division team will come to support almost the entire city: the population of Les Erbier is 15,933 people, and tickets to their sector were sold 15,000. But rooting for a clear outsider will be the entire football country, except, of course, the fans of the PSG. In France, the meetings between David and Goliath are so loved that the most watched final in the history of the French Cup is a match between Lyon and another representative of League 3 Keviji, who in 2012 collected seven million viewers from the screens, which is twice as many as last year's final between PSG and Angers.
Composition Les Arbier is mainly staffed from free agents and several leased players, three of whom even have a small experience of appearances in League 1, and their 41-year-old Stefan Mazala trains. Despite the fact that the "red devils" reached the French Cup final, they still have not secured a residence permit in League 3 for the next season and defeat in the final round can guarantee them at least two more meetings with PSG in the next campaign. True, we are talking about the reserve team of Parisians, which acts in the second National Division.
The first team PSG from January 2014 has won 41 national cup match in a row, and the victory over Les Arbier will bring them the fourth cup double (French Cup and French Cup) in a row. In turn, the triumph of Les Herbiers, which is not surprising, will be a historic event. Before the final of the Cup of France, three representatives of the third division arrived - Nimes (1996), Amiens (2001) and Keviji (2012) - but in all three cases they were defeated.
Approximate compositions:.
Les Erbier: Pichot - Marie, Ducker, Fofana, Pajerie - Ekmeer, Flocheon, Bongongui - Rochoto, Dabasse, Gbhojo PSG: Trapp Meunier, Marquinhos, Silva, Berchiche - Lo Celso, Rabio, Draxler - Di Maria, Cavani, Mbappa Not will play:. - Verrati, Neimar, Ben Arfa Interesting facts:.
- In the current French Cup, Les Erbier defeated two representatives of League 2 (Lance and Auxerre), but the match against PSG will be their first meeting with the team of League 1;.
- On the way to the final Les Arbier produced seven wins, which is only two less than for the entire season in the championship;.
- In the semi-final, Les Arbier defeated another representative of the third division of Shambly in front of 34,653 fans;.
- Les Arbier missed only three goals in seven French Cup matches, PSG missed five goals in five games;.
- Captain Les Erbier Sebastien Floccion estimated the chances of his team to win "somewhere in 0,5%";.
- Only twice the French Cup was won by teams not from League 1 - Le Havre in 1959 and Gingam in 2009. Both teams were representatives of League 2;.
- Midfielder Les Arbier Rodrigo Bongonggui crossed with PSG striker Kylian Mbappa in the Paris club Bondi.
The trainers say:.
Head coach Les Erbier Stefan Mazala:.
"As part of the Paris Saint-Germain collected some of the best players in the world, so that even a devastating defeat will not be a disgrace for us. I'm a young coach and together with the players we came here to learn something. So, I hope, in this regard, PSG players will teach us a lesson. But we do not intend to give up ahead of time, so we prepared two different game plans and try to impose on the opponent a fight ".
Head coach of PSG Unai Emery:.
"Les Erbier was in the final not by accident and this is the whole charm of the Cup of France. We have to show respect to the opponent, and the best way to do this is to give the best from the first to the last minute. We know that this is a special match, the final of the cup, so my players are very motivated. PSG won the Cup of France 11 times, but only won twice in the final with the advantage of more than one goal, and this shows that in the finals it's never easy ".
forecast 0: 4.