Aspetar recognised as AFC Medical Centre of Excellence PAGE 15 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 PSG look to go one better in Champions League Edinson Cavani trains on Monday ahead of the Manchester United’s UEFA Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain. Cavani swaps life on farm for Man Utd spotlight Paris Saint-Germain’s forward Kylian Mbappe arrives for a training ses- AFP Jadon Sancho. sion at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, western Paris, on Monday on the eve of Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar arrives for a training session at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, LONDON Cavani spent the last few UEFA Champions League match against Manchester United. (AFP) western Paris, on Monday. (AFP) months shearing sheep on his MARCUS Rashford insists farm back home in Uruguay Edinson Cavani will prove a and indulging his unlikely pas- Maguire out, Fernandes to captain Manchester United in Group H opener in Paris valuable addition for Man- sion for ballet -- even featuring chester United after the vet- in an advert for a Montevideo AFP weaker than it was last season with Italy and could be side- H alongside RB Leipzig and eran Uruguay striker swapped dance school. But, while he rel- PARIS as PSG – having already seen lined for up to three weeks, Istanbul Basaksehir. life on the farm for the Old ishes his quiet life away from several key players depart over sports daily L’Equipe reported. Trafford spotlight. football and could easily have PARIS Saint-Germain came the summer – have started the Paredes injury a thigh mus- MAGUIRE STAYS BACK Cavani signed a two-year slipped into retirement, Ca- so close to winning the prize new campaign hamstrung by cle playing in Friday’s 4-0 win Harry Maguire did not travel contract worth £210,000-per- vani’s love affair with the game they crave more than anything injuries, suspensions and coro- at Nimes in Ligue 1. with the Manchester United week ($271,000) on transfer was strong enough to persuade in last season’s Champions navirus cases. In addition, Argentina squad as manager Ole Gun- deadline day and could make him to accept a new challenge League and are hoping to go “We will do everything we striker Mauro Icardi is absent nar Solskjaer confirmed Bruno his debut in United’s opening with United, regardless of one better this time in group- possibly can and we will never with a knee problem, while the Fernandes will captain the visi- Champions League group game what the critics say. stage opener at home to Man- accept excuses but we have to defensive pair of Thilo Kehrer tors in the French capital. against his former club Paris “I had a lot of different op- chester United on Tuesday. face up to the reality and that and Juan Bernat are also on the “We’re a little bit deplet- Saint Germain on Tuesday. portunities, I was excited to play Bayern Munich’s greater is that we have lost players,” Matches Today sidelines. ed but we’ve got more than The 33-year-old missed Sat- in the Premier League and even experience told in Lisbon in coach Thomas Tuchel said ear- Zenit vs Club Brugge However, speaking to re- enough players,” said Solsk- urday’s 4-1 victory at Newcastle more so for Manchester Unit- August, and there were tears lier this month. (7.55pm) porters on Monday, Tuchel jaer, who is without Maguire, – United’s first match since his ed,” Cavani said. at the end for Neymar as the PSG signed two new mid- said Brazil centre-back Mar- Mason Greenwood, Eric Bailly, signing – after going into quar- “I am very motivated be- French champions agonis- fielders, with Portuguese in- Dynamo Kiev vs Juventus quinhos and Germany’s Ju- Jesse Lingard and new signing antine following his arrival in cause I always want to play as ingly lost 1-0 in their first ever ternational Danilo Pereira ar- (7.55pm) lian Draxler had been back in Edinson Cavani for the game. England. But Cavani is expected much as possible, work, train Champions League final. riving on loan from Porto and RB Leipzig vs Istanbul training. “We hope that the players to be available to join Ole Gun- and give the best of myself.” Two months on, Thomas Rafinha joining on a three-year Basaksehir (10pm) “I hope that they will be won’t be away for too long. Ed- nar Solskjaer’s squad in time for Cavani and his girlfriend Tuchel’s side begin their lat- deal from Barcelona. able to play for us tomorrow inson needs a few more days an emotional trip to Paris. contracted COVID-19 over a est bid for European success at Italy striker Moise Kean Rennes vs Krasnador (10pm) (Tuesday),” said Tuchel, who training before maybe we can “I am going to experience month ago after a holiday in Ibi- home in a rematch of the last- was also captured on loan Lazio vs Dortmund (10pm) also has Portugal midfielder think about the weekend, hope- an exceptional moment, that za, but he is recovered and ready 16 tie in 2019 which PSG lost to from Everton to strengthen Chelsea vs Sevilla (10pm) Danilo Pereira available for the fully Harry can and Mason as nobody thought would happen. to add his experience and preda- a controversial late penalty. the attack. first time after arriving on loan well but we’re not sure about It will be an incredible thing, tory instincts to a young United It therefore brings back Neymar and Kylian Mbap- PSG vs Man United (10pm) from Porto. that,” added the United man- beautiful emotions,” Cavani team in need of guidance. memories of just one of several pe are still there of course, and Barcelona vs Ferencvaros He was unable to feature ager of the players’ prospects of told TF1 recently. While their free-scoring painful defeats in the Cham- so is Angel di Maria. (10pm) against Nimes after having to being back to face Chelsea on Cavani scored 200 goals in victory at Newcastle suggested pions League in recent years, Meanwhile in the short isolate due to being in contact Saturday. seven years with PSG, but he United already have enough at- but the reality is that Paris term PSG are still missing a with international colleague Fernandes, who scored in left the Ligue 1 champions in tacking talent, the truth is Rash- should be considered favour- host of players for the start of here while he serves a ban do- Cristiano Ronaldo, who tested the 4-1 weekend win at New- June, missing their run to the ford, Mason Greenwood and ites against the Old Trafford their European campaign. mestically. positive for COVID-19. castle United, described being Champions League final. Daniel James are all still rela- side and to win a group also Influential left-back Juan PSG will have to do without Angel Di Maria is also free given the captain’s armband His age and lack of recent tively raw, capable of excellence containing RB Leipzig and Is- Bernat is out with a knee in- midfield duo Marco Verratti from a domestic suspension in Maguire’s absence as “an action -- he hasn’t played since and head-scratching inconsist- tanbul Basaksehir. jury, while midfield duo Marco and Leandro Paredes, coach as last season’s Champions honour, an important achieve- PSG’s Champions League win ency in equal measure. Yet whether this will be the Verratti and Leandro Paredes Thomas Tuchel has confirmed, League runners-up take on the ment”. over Borussia Dortmund in Rashford hopes Cavani can season that they do go all the are expected to miss Tuesday’s but captain Marquinhos could side who dumped them out of United are returning to the March -- prompted some Unit- emulate the impact made by way remains to be seen. game and Mauro Icardi is ab- return. the competition in the last 16 in Champions League this season ed fans to label Cavani a panic Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who joined Tuchel has been the first sent too. Verratti suffered a leg mus- 2018/19. after missing out in the last buy after their failure to land the club in 2016 having left PSG to complain that his squad is Di Maria, at least, can play cle injury on international duty The sides are in Group campaign. Borussia Dortmund forward as a free agent. Anthony Martial, the kid from Paris suburbs who became a star AFP Last year, on one trip for PSG, against whom United He joined his local club While Dorian has been a LES ULIS (FRANCE) home, Martial coached a team start their European campaign and was already playing with long-time servant of the lo- in a mini “World Cup” organ- this week. But he is one of the older age groups as a seven- cal club, who currently play in ANTHONY Martial became ised in the Bergeres neigh- many brilliant footballers to year-old. “Everyone could France’s fifth tier, defender Jo- the world’s most expensive bourhood where he grew up. have come out of the suburbs see very early on that he was han played in Ligue 1 for Brest teenager when he joined Man- He also prepared for his return of the French capital, includ- a prodigy,” remembers Wally and Troyes. He now plays sec- chester United from Monaco to Old Trafford by training on ing Thierry Henry and Patrice Bagou, a former coach. ond-tier football for Sochaux. in 2015, but as the forward the pitches of his first club, CO Evra, the latter another ex- On the walls of the club- returns to his native France Les Ulis.