Paris Saint-Germain will try to restore its balance after losing at home to Rennes 0-2 in the last round, when it receives Lyon, who is in tenth place, in the twenty-ninth stage of the French Football Championship , which opens Friday with Marseille’s second meeting with its guest, Montpellier.
Attention will be focused on Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier, whose fate is in the wind after his team was satisfied with competing for the local league title, after leaving the European Champions League final price at the hands of Bayern Munich (0-1 in the first leg and 0-2 in the forth), It is the French Cup at the hands of arch-rivals Marseille.
After a fiery start for Galtier, who came from Nice at the beginning of the current season, the performance of the capital team has declined a lot in recent months, which has drawn a question mark about its fate at the end of the current season.
Galtier does not look for excuses for the reason for the decline in his team's level, but there are "explanations", he said, especially the injury suffered by eight players, including four of the main players, namely the Brazilian Neymar, the Italian Marco Verratti, the Spaniard Sergio Ramos and Presnel Kempebe.
But Galtier, who is usually tactful in his press conferences during difficult times, began to make some mistakes, according to critics, by criticizing the young players in the team and sparing some big names such as Verratti, for example, who has been making disappointing performances in recent weeks.

Also, the apathy between the club's supporters and the Argentine star Lionel Messi, who was booed after his meager performance in front of Rennes and went straight to the dressing room, while his colleagues went to greet the team's supporters who continued to support the team, does not make the coach's task easier.
Messi, 36, whose contract with St. Germain expires on June 30, is still in the midst of negotiations with St. Germain to extend his contract, but so far no formal agreement has been reached between the two parties amid the American interest of Inter Miami, which is owned by the former English star. David Beckham, Saudi Arabia and his former club Barcelona to seek his services.
According to a source close to Saint-Germain, the club's board of directors has recently seemed reluctant to continue the adventure with the world champion, especially in light of the dissatisfaction of the team's supporters and the need to direct the sports project in another direction.

On the other hand, Marseille wants to increase the pressure on Saint-Germain, who leads it by 7 points, ten stages before the end of the league.
Marseille will receive Montpellier XI at its Velodrome stadium, and its dependence will be primarily on Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez, the best scorer in his ranks, with 12 goals, including 7 in his last ten matches.
His Croatian coach, Igor Tudor, praised him by saying, "We are lucky to have Alexis with us."
He continued, "I have always loved him, he loves football and always wants to win. He arrives at training two hours before the others and does not gain a single gram, that is the difference."
However, Tudor is aware of the difficulty of his team's mission to snatch the title from Saint-Germain, saying, "If (Saint-Germain) decides to win, he will win. They have Kylian Mbappe, a player for whom I have great respect. Messi is in my opinion the best player in history and Neymar is very strong, but Mbappe is the best player He's in the world right now and the team just isn't the same without him."
He added, "We beat them (in the cup) when he was absent, but when he returned to the team, they beat us (in the league)."
Marseille's task will not be easy against Montpellier, who scored 16 points out of 18 in the last 6 league matches.
The stage is witnessing a strong match between Lens III, nine points behind the leader, and its host, Rennes, fifth, while Monaco, fourth, receives Strasbourg, fifteenth.
Nice VII hopes to continue its series without losing in 13 matches, since the appointment of Didier Degard as its coach last January, when it visits Angers, who are in last place.