{"id":655854,"date":"2025-06-19T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655854"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:59:32","slug":"psg-predicted-lineup-botafogo-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/19\/psg-predicted-lineup-botafogo-june\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG Predicted Lineup vs Botafogo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a PSG predicted lineup for their second Club World Cup group stage game. The Champions League winners take on Brazil&#8217;s Botafogo after securing a win in their opener against Atletico Madrid. They did so without star man Ousmane Dembele who could also miss this one, not that they&#8217;ll worry too much as les Parisiens are currently looking unstoppable regardless of personnel.<\/p>\n<h2>PSG Predicted Lineup vs Botafogo for Club World Cup Group Stage Clash<\/h2>\n<h3>How PSG Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Gianluigi Donnarumma is the everpresent in goal but was rested for Matvey Safonov. Achraf Hakimi, Pacho, Marquinhos, and Nuno Mendes has emerged as the primary back four with very little rotation where possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/17\/fifa-club-world-cup-matchday-2-predictions-psg-vs-botafogo\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">FIFA Club World Cup Matchday 2 Predictions Including PSG vs Botafogo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The established midfield trio is Vitinha, Joao Neves, and Fabian Ruiz. The attacking three is usually a mix of Dembele, Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, Desire Doue, and Bradley Barcola. Goncalo Ramos came in for the tournament opener for a rare start.<\/p>\n<h3>PSG Recent Form &amp; Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>Luis Enrique has utilised his almost trademark 4-3-3 so far to great success. It is a possession-focused system that also allows for counter-attacking opportunities using the blazing pace of their wide players. The front three is often allowed to roam and switch positions as they&#8217;re all capable dribblers and passers, making it difficult for the defence to handle the movement of the attacking trio as well as the movement of the ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/18\/fifa-club-world-cup-matchday-2-predictions-including-chelsea-vs-flamengo\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">FIFA Club World Cup Matchday 2 Predictions Including Chelsea vs Flamengo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ligue 1 winners are undefeated since May 3, during this stretch of dominance, they won the Champions League, French Cup, and the domestic league while dismantling Inter 5-0 in a major European final. Defensively, their control of the ball means they let in very few goals while they carve out chance after chance to grind down the opposition.<\/p>\n<h3>PSG Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p>Dembele has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2025\/ousmane-dembele-continues-to-train-individually-bradley-barcola-returns-for-psg\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">training alone<\/a> and will likely be protected if he&#8217;s not fit.<\/p>\n<h3>Paris Saint-Germain Predicted Lineup vs Botafogo<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Nuno Mendes<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Pacho<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Marquinhos<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Achraf Hakimi<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Vitinha<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Fabian Ruiz<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Joao Neves<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Bradley Barcola<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Desire Doue<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Goncalo Ramos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a PSG predicted lineup for their second Club World Cup group stage game. The Champions League winners take on Brazil&#8217;s Botafogo after securing a win in their opener against Atletico Madrid. They did so without star man Ousmane Dembele who could also miss this one, not that they&#8217;ll worry too much as les [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":655855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,7],"tags":[1701],"class_list":["post-655854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris-saint-germain","category-ligue-1","tag-club-world-cup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655856,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655854\/revisions\/655856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}