PSG go into Matchweek 10 of the 2026/27 Ligue 1 season top of the table with 20 points from nine games, Lille close behind and five straight wins across all competitions behind them. Troyes, newly promoted as Ligue 2 champions under Stéphane Dumont who took charge in August 2024, are 16th with eight points and only one clear of the drop zone. PSG want a seventh consecutive league win and an 11th in a row overall, Troyes are just trying to survive another difficult evening against one of the continent's better sides.
PSG have been relentless, winning their last five matches including a 5-1 dismantling of Le Havre in Ligue 1 on 30 October 2026 and a 4-2 Champions League win over Barcelona. Troyes, by contrast, have managed one win from their last seven outings, with a 2-0 victory over Le Mans followed by a goalless draw at Toulouse on 25 October that exposed their difficulty breaking down organised defences.
PSG are without Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (knee/ACL), Nuno Mendes (muscle), Marquinhos (thigh) and Ousmane Dembélé (thigh), which removes real width and defensive experience from the usual rotation, though Luis Enrique still has Achraf Hakimi, Warren Zaïre-Emery and Ferran Torres available. Troyes have their own absentees in Ismaël Boura (hip), Yacouba Koné (ACL) and Anis Ouzenadji (ankle, doubt) and their defensive and midfield options were already thin before these absences, making a clean sheet look even less likely.
PSG's 4-3-3 is built on high possession and clinical transitions, with Hakimi providing the primary source of width on the right, he recently completed a hat-trick and Zaïre-Emery anchors midfield with progressive passing and positional discipline. Torres carries the bulk of the finishing responsibility with Kvaratskhelia and Dembélé both out and Hakimi needs to stretch Troyes' back line from wide to open up the pockets Torres likes to operate in. Troyes will likely sit in a compact 4-2-3-1, prioritising set pieces and counters over sustained possession. The absences of Boura and Koné are particularly damaging because defending wide areas was already a weakness, Hakimi has already shown this season he can both cross and cut back for runners and Troyes' exposed left side is exactly where PSG will look first. The main duel to watch is Hakimi against Troyes' left sided defenders, with Zaïre-Emery's ability to find runners in behind with forward passes likely to put Troyes' midfield two under immediate pressure.
PSG have not lost to Troyes in Ligue 1 since 2001, an unbeaten run across 17 or more meetings and at home the record is even starker: 14 wins and three draws with no losses. The gap in quality has sometimes been brutal, most notably a 9-0 win in which PSG kept adding goals once the game was decided.
Set pieces are probably Troyes' most realistic route to scoring or winning a free kick in a dangerous area but with their main defenders missing, they will also be vulnerable to PSG's movement in the box from dead ball situations and Enrique's side have become efficient in that area themselves, using short routines to build overloads.
The prediction is 4-0 to PSG and even with their own absences, Hakimi's overlapping runs, Zaïre-Emery's control and Torres' finishing give them more than enough to break down a Troyes defence that has already conceded 16 goals in nine league games. With multiple defenders missing along their back line, a second goal from wide or a midfield arrival is a realistic expectation given the spaces Troyes will be unable to cover. A first half goal lets Enrique manage the game intelligently while still adding further strikes from wide areas and midfield arrivals and the 4-0 margin reflects both PSG's recent scoring rate and the defensive vulnerabilities Troyes will be carrying into this one.
Ryan Baldi
Football Writer
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