Nice vs. PSG live stream: Watch Ligue 1 live online, TV channel, start time, prediction, odds

Paris Saint-Germain’s season is rapidly descending into crisis and Saturday’s trip to OGC Nice in Ligue 1 is expected to be the first of two decisive games for the French champions’ head coach Christophe Galtier. Avoid back-to-back defeats at Nice and then at home to RC Lens and the French tactician should be safe in his job and logically Les Parisiens’ title hopes until the end of the season. Drop more than four points though, and Galtier could be out with PSG demolition to salvage even a record 11th Championnat crown. Kylian Mbappe targets the club things didn’t help build this game and a loss to Didier Digard’s men at Allianz Riviera would add pressure ahead of that crucial encounter with Lens. Nice are 14 games unbeaten under Digard so this will not be easy for the capital at all.

“There was a debriefing about the performance against Lyon,” Galtier admitted before the game on Friday. “I spoke to the group and told them to show something else. The performance in the last game was not good enough at all. Then we had a week in which everyone trained. I had the impression that everyone was preparing.” for this match in Nice. We have prepared ourselves well for this trip. I asked my players to show more effort and personality. We also need to have more respect for the instructions and the game plan, we fell short on these points. We need to find a more cohesive game. When you are at Paris Saint-Germain and you want to perform well in every game, you have to be proud and react. We know that we are capable of performing well.

“The president came to see us this morning and spoke in the locker room,” the French tactician added. “I think it was important that he was there and that he was there. Obviously I have my share of responsibility, as does the whole team. We are all aware of this. What are we going to do if we once said, “Shall we continue?” so or do we react? I am, of course, aware of the president’s speech. His speech shows that we cannot go on like this. It was a clear and precise speech, addressed to everyone.

“There is a lot at stake for the club in winning the eleventh league title. The first thing is to stay focused on the work. We have to have the right analysis in this bad period. We have to work and find solutions. We cannot just blame one area if we win it’s everyone’s victory so it’s the same if we lose it’s my job to make people aware of this there’s a lot of pressure from the competitors and we’re not that far ahead as we have been in the past, we can’t relax and I say it again, we need to have a big reaction in the upcoming games.

Here are our storylines, how to watch the match and more:

How to watch and opportunities

• Date: Saturday April 8 | Time: 3 p.m. ET
• Place: Allianz Riviera — Nice, France
• TV: beIN Sports USA | Live stream: fuboTV (free trial)
• Chances: Yummy +280; Draw: +290; PSG-118 (via Caesar’s Sportsbook)

Team news

Nice: Youcef Atal and Sofiane Diop are injured, while Hicham Boudaoui was injured during the international period and Jordan Lotomba is expected to be out until later this season. Terem Moffi has been in strong form at the top since joining from Lorient in January and the Nigeria international will look to do even more damage here.

“Nice is the last French team left in Europe,” Galtier said of his former club. “It’s a team that hasn’t been beaten since Didier Digard took over as manager. It’s a team with a lot of certainties and players with a lot of confidence. There will be a great atmosphere as always, but we need to be much better than in the last few games with a lot more effort and initiative. We’ve conceded too many goals in the last few games, and they’re a great team in transition, so we’ll have to be careful. Their side had a lot of new players at the start of the season, with a lot of new signings. It took everyone a bit of time to adapt. Today it is a very compact team that defends as one. We also saw that they have quality up front, I think from Terem Moffi who arrived this winter or Nicolas Pepe who is back in shape. With Gaetan Laborde they have a very interesting attacking trio. It is a very homogeneous team.”

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PSG: Marco Verratti is out after being forced out in last week’s defeat to Olympique Lyonnais, while Neymar and Presnel Kimpembe will not return this season. Juan Bernat is also missing with an ankle problem confirmed by his absence from the PSG touring team. Sergio Ramos and Nordi Mukiele are expected to miss again, while Carlos Soler is also struggling. Marquinhos returned from an injury against Lyon and could continue well here.

Prediction

This could really be a trick for PSG and anything more than a point against an unbeaten Nice side should be considered a decent result all in all. Galtier will hope it’s not a miserable return to his former club, having left for Paris last summer. Choose: Nice 1, PSG 1.