PSG's winning run passes to the reserves against a Troyes side that rarely scores
Luis Enrique will send out a Paris side without six regulars, Achraf Hakimi rested among them, and has called it the hardest match of the week. Troyes have scored seven goals in nine league matches and won at home in the top flight for the first time in 21 matches only last Saturday.
Achraf Hakimi had a hand in all five of PSG's goals at Le Havre a week ago and scored three of them himself. He will not play against Troyes. The club announced on Friday that he would rest until the international break, which puts him beside five injured regulars, Ousmane Dembélé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Marquinhos among them.
PSG should win comfortably even without six regulars, because Troyes have scored seven goals in nine matches and are unlikely to find one here.
What is left is the side Luis Enrique has rotated through all autumn, and it has kept winning. Senny Mayulu and Mika Godts scored at Le Havre, and David Boly, 17, scored on his Champions League debut in Tuesday's 6-0 at Villarreal, the tenth win in a row in all competitions. Luis Enrique still described Saturday as the opposite of the easy match everyone expects: "It is the hardest match of the week."
Troyes give him little reason to think so. Stéphane Dumont's promoted side are 16th with eight points, and seven goals in nine matches is not an attack built to punish a reshuffled defence. They went six matches without a win before beating Le Mans 2-0 last Saturday, their first home win in the top flight in 21 matches.
Their last visit to the Parc des Princes is the case for caution. In May 2022 PSG led 2-0 and drew 2-2, the equaliser a penalty won by Renaud Ripart, who is still in Troyes's attack. That point was also their last against Paris: they lost both meetings the next season, 4-3 and 3-1, and went down. A PSG without six regulars is the cheapest point Troyes will be offered here, and still an expensive one.
