PSG v Nantes postponed due to Champions League fixtures

PSG have nothing else on their minds but winning the Champions League and Ligue 1 has given them a helping hand in achieving that goal. With the championship title in their pockets - the Parisian club is 19 points ahead of Marseille - the governing body of French football has postponed the duel of Luis Enrique's team against Nantes on April 13th.

That is what has been reported by 'L'Equipe', which notes that this movement has occurred so that the Parisians are fresh to face the Champions League quarter-final against Aston Villa. The first match will be played on April 9th and the second will be on April 15th, so the squad will have 6 days of rest.

This may give a slight advantage to PSG, who knocked out Liverpool in the round of 16 and became one of the favourites to win the competition. However, the aforementioned source points out that Nantes, who are playing for safety, had been completely opposed to postponing a match that is scheduled to be played on Tuesday, April 22nd, when nothing is fixed in the calendar.

In the event of a hypothetical Champions League semi-final, the Parisians would go through the same procedure again to try to arrive rested for a transcendental date to reach the final of the competition. The dates are 29-30th for the first leg and 6-7th May for the second leg, with the clash against Strasbourg in between, which would be postponed to another day.