Toulouse vs Paris SG prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2023-08-18 19:00.
Whatever Toulouse coach Carles MartĂnez said in his maiden half-time team talk as Le TĂ©fĂ©cé’s touchline commander worked wonders, with Toulouse’s post-hour mark double blast against Nantes last weekend seeing them rally from an early setback to win 2-1. It was a performance the Spaniard described as “an incredible match in terms of its outcome”.
That result also made it six away league games unbeaten for the Coupe de France holders, but the story is very different at Stadium de Toulouse, where TFC are winless in seven Ligue 1 outings (D2, L5). That includes four scoring blanks, while they also failed to hit the target in 2022/23’s corresponding H2H against Paris Saint-Germain a year ago this month (L 0-3).
Yet, on the evidence of PSG’s meek start, as they defend a new outright-record 11th league title, a repeat of that thrashing might not come so easily. With several key first-team players injured or linked with headline-grabbing exits, Luis Enrique’s men laboured to a 0-0 draw with Lorient on day one, putting them at risk of going four Ligue 1 games without victory.
They haven’t suffered such a run since the back end of 2017/18, but PSG are favourites for reasons beyond their sheer stature, with no defeat in seven Ligue 1 away games (W6, D1). If they are to extend that run with a win – and keep September 2016 as the latest occasion on which they lost a H2H against Toulouse – the Parisians might do it in style, having ranged between 2-3 goals in each of their previous nine away league wins.
Players to watch: Already en-route to bettering his ten league goals from last season, Zakaria Aboukhlal sparked Toulouse’s fightback vs Nantes, making half of his previous six strikes equalisers for 1-1. As for PSG’s Kang-in Lee, he’ll be hoping that second time’s the charm after a drab debut, but he may have to be patient given four of his six goals with Mallorca in 2022/23 were the game’s last of the day.
Hot stat: PSG have won one half by a 1-0 scoreline in five of their previous six H2Hs vs Toulouse.