All the beauty of the French football cup is reflected in one game, the last one in the 4th round, which will be played this Monday at 22:45. In the fight for the round of 16, the sixth division team Pays de Cassel and the current champion of France, Paris Saint-Germain, will meet.The fact that even the French media had to write articles to introduce it to their readers shows how unknown Pays de Cassel is. Admittedly, in defense of the football fanatics there, this amateur club has only existed for five years, it was founded in 2018 by the merger of four rural teams from Flanders, in the very north of France not far from Belgium.Since the club can not host the Saints, the management of Pays du Cassel has agreed with Lens to ‘lend’ the Estadio Bollaert-Delelis for this game. It turned out to be a complete hit, because although the plan was originally to close the upper section and only sell tickets for the lower section, in the end more than 30,000 tickets were sold and the stadium will be almost completely filled.pic.twitter.com/JBAYyak6OQ— Us Pays de Cassel CompteFan (@Celestin_5) January 23, 2023 As is usually the case in the French Cup, one of the few that did not change the system of the competition to spare the greats from matches with amateurs, as a rule, the first league teams give up their share of the revenue from the tickets in advance. PSG did exactly that, because they believe that Pays de Cassel needed the money more.You don’t have to be too smart to make such a conclusion. The annual budget of the sixth league for this season is 150,000 euros, the Parisians reported that it is close to 700,000,000 euros. The French press made the calculations, PSG’s budget is 4,667 times larger.Despite this, coach Christophe Galtier does not intend to experiment too much with the squad. That is, they will show the opponents the honor of being on the field with the biggest stars of world football. Unfortunately for this evening’s underdogs, not all the stars will be present – Lionel Messi will not travel to Lens, with Gianluigi Donnarumma, Marco Verratti and Presnel Kimpembe injured. However, according to media announcements, Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Keylor Navas, the talented Hugo Ekitike will play from the start…##EDITORS_CHOICE##The management of Pays de Cassel made an interesting move before this game. In order to prevent the footballers of the sixth division from running around the field of the Parisians and asking them for jerseys, they held an internal draw among themselves, to determine exactly who “gets” which player, that is, has the right to bother for the jersey.The referee of this match will be the youngest and most promising referee of Ligue 1, 30-year-old Willy Delajod. He made his debut in the French top league at the age of 25, becoming the record holder of the French championship at the time.About an hour and a half before the start of the match, the draw for the round of 16 will be made, so the players will already know their next opponent in case of victory.COUPE DE FRANCEMonday22:45: (50.0) Pays de Cassel (17.0) PSG (1.01)(Rodez, Toulouse, Olympique Marseille, Annecy, Reims, Lens, Vierzon Foote, Lorient, Nantes, Angers, Olympique Lyon, Lille, Auxerre, Paris and Grenoble made it to the round of 16)***odds are subject to change***
