Lorient and Paris Saint Germain will face off on Wednesday the 22nd of December at 9:00 pm in the 19th week of the Ligue 1. The match is going to be staged in Lorient at the Stade Yves Allainmat – Le Moustoir. The chosen referee is Antony Gautier.

Lorient is in the 19th position in the standings with 15 points. It comes from a 4-1 loss against Metz in its last match in the Ligue 1. Up to now, it has won 3 times, draw 6 times, and lost 9 times.​​

Paris Saint Germain sits in the 1st position in the table with 45 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Monaco in its last match in the Ligue 1. To date, it has won 14 times, draw 3 times, and lost once.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Lorient​

Lorient has mostly adopted the 5-3-2 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 61.11%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 5-3-2 (11 times), 3-5-2 (5 times), 5-4-1 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).

Christophe Pélissier is expected to play against Paris Saint Germain with the following players: P. Nardi, V. Le Goff, M. Jenz, J. Laporte, H. Mendes, I. Silva de Almeida, L. Abergel, E. Le Fée, S. Diarra, D. Faissal Ouattara and T. Moffi.

Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Lorient would be 25.10.

J. Morel and F. Lemoine will definitely miss the match.

Paris Saint Germain​

Line - Ups​

Paris Saint Germain has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 61.11%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (11 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times) and 4-4-2 (once).

Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero is expected to play against Lorient with the following players: G. Donnarumma, A. Diallo, M. Aoás Corrêa, A. Hakimi Mouh, M. Verratti, G. Wijnaldum, I. Gueye, K. Mbappé Lottin, Á. Di María Hernández and L. Messi.

Presuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Paris Saint Germain would be 27.90.

There are doubts about the presence of N. Mendes.

J. Bernat Velasco, P. Kimpembe, S. Ramos García, N. da Silva Santos Junior and J. Draxler will definitely miss the match.