At 4:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 16, the 21st round of this season's Ligue 1 is about to usher in a focus battle, with the leader Paris Saint-Germain playing at home against Brest. In the last 2 league games, The Greater Paris have all drawn 1-1 with their opponents, the momentum of scoring has slowed down, and the team behind them has narrowed the point gap, so the home game against Brest cannot be lost, the 160 million superstar Mbappe is still the team's offensive thigh, and the two superstars Messi and Neymar continue to be absent.
With the addition of Messi, Paris Islea has become one of the most watched teams in Europe, and this season the team aims to win the Ligue 1, Champions League and French Cup treble.
At present, Paris is far ahead in the Ligue 1 standings, but the last 2 rounds of consecutive 1-1 draws with Lorient and Lyon, losing 4 points, so that Nice and Marseille behind them narrowed the point difference, the team is still 11 points ahead, foreign media predict that the probability of winning the championship is as high as 96%, the most optimistic about Greater Paris to win the championship steadily.
Of course, Paris can't continue to be unwinnable in Ligue 1, and next month's Champions League knockout rounds will kick off and the team will have to extend more leads in the league. In this round of the league, Paris will return home to play Brest, who has accumulated 25 points in 20 rounds and is 13th in the standings.
For Greater Paris, Brest is one of the team's favorite opponents, according to statistics, since the beginning of the 2011-2012 season, the two teams have met 10 times in Ligue 1 and the French Cup, Greater Paris has maintained a full victory, from the beginning of 1-0 to the last meeting of 4-2, now Greater Paris is determined to win 11 consecutive wins.
Greater Paris wants to win Brest at home, inseparable from Mbappe's play. According to official information from Paris, Messi is currently recovering well but not yet able to play, meaning that Messi is definitely absent from this weekend's Ligue 1, while Neymar continues to be recovering and is also absent.
During the consecutive absences of Messi and Neymar, it was Mbappe who carried the banner of the Greater Paris Attack. So far this season, Mbappe has made 27 appearances for Greater Paris in all competitions, scoring 18 goals and assisting 12 times, scoring 30 goals, scoring and assisting the number of goals and assists in the team, and it is not difficult to understand why the club is reluctant to let Mbappe move to Real Madrid in advance.
Mbappe has recently stated that he will play for Paris until the end of the season and talk about the future, so Messi won his first Ligue 1 title, which is also just around the corner.