Espaly – PSG Betting tip, prediction & odds 15/01/2025

Coupe de France, 6th round, Wednesday, 15/01/2025 at 21:00

It’s a task that can’t really go wrong. A task that is really only about the level of success. A task that makes me wonder whether a potentially strong rotation will decide the result!

France’s best football team will enter the cup on Wednesday, with their opponents being one of the biggest outsiders still in the competition. But I’m being brave in my Espaly PSG tip: I’ll tell you what’s behind my bet of “home win with a 6-0 handicap”!

The question of whether there will be a victory in this 6th round of the Coupe de France? The question is not whether, but how enthusiastically the players approach this seemingly easy task! That’s more like it!

Paris St. Germain face FC Espaly on Wednesday. Does that mean anything to you? Never mind, I also had to quickly fire up the search engines! The club is active in the fifth French division, so it is a long way from professional football…

It’s quite an achievement for the club to have made it to this 6th round at all. They made their debut in 2015/16, only to be knocked out at the first hurdle. After a long break, they made it back in 2023/24, only to be knocked out in round 3.

So 2024/25 should be the season in which things finally progressed significantly. Espaly started the competition in November with a 1-0 win over Biars-Bretenoux, not a big name either.

This was followed by a 3-0 win over Couzeix, before Dijon were the first opponents to sound a little more challenging. It was to be a game in which neither the home fans nor neutral spectators were bored.

The game ended 1-1, with the fifth division club eventually winning on penalties. The nerves were there, which is exactly how it should be against the best team in the country.

Incidentally, Espaly have not yet played against the Paris teams, so we will experience a double premiere on Wednesday. Do I have to take a look at the odds at our betting providers?

Not necessarily, because you can surely imagine what values we can expect. A 40.0 for the hosts is not uncommon, while the Parisians’ odds of course hardly come to a 1.01.

PSG knows full well: if you don’t take this task seriously enough, you’ll face a lot of scorn and ridicule. In the Ligue 1, as you would expect from the defending champions, everything is going as it should in the Ligue 1.

Last Sunday, they won 2-1 against St. Etienne, so the team has recovered well from the two draws at the end of November and beginning of December.

It’s actually quite simple: the Parisians alone decide what the final score is or how high they win. Then again, the stars take a little time out, so it’s never possible to predict exactly how much enthusiasm they have for a game.

It would, of course, give Espaly hope if I could say, “Hey, PSG are regularly knocked out in the early rounds of the cup.” But that statement would simply not be true.

Paris is the reigning champion of the Coupe de France, has reached the final eight times since 2015 and won seven of those. In 2022 and 2023, they were knocked out in the round of 16, but their opponents, Nice and Marselle, were of course much stronger than Espaly is now.

The game between Paris St. Germain and Espaly is one of the “David vs. Goliath – Deluxe” category! One is the best team in France, the other is somewhere in the lower midfield of the fifth division.

So really, the only question is how high the victory will be on Wednesday. Of course, I think PSG is strong enough to get the job done without any problems, but it could well be that there will be a lot of rotation.

If a number of stars stay at home, the situation is of course a little different. And since there are two Champions League matches in January, I expect exactly this rotation. Therefore, my tip is:

A 6-0 handicap is enough for the underdog to “win”!

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