But maximum of the spotlight on the capital giants is focused off the pitch, with Kylian Mbappe's future greater unsure than ever, Lionel Messi nonetheless coming back from a advantageous Covid check and Neymar receiving harm treatment in Brazil.
PSG already boast a apparently insurmountable thirteen-point lead over 2d-positioned Nice in Ligue 1, but will want their superstar front 3 match and firing for the final-sixteen first leg against Real on February 15.
Mbappe can be able to leave Paris on a unfastened switch this summer if he does no longer sign a new agreement, but Pochettino believes the consistent rumours over a probable move will now not have an effect on the World Cup winner's performances.
"The performance of Kylian (Mbappe) is not laid low with his contractual scenario," the PSG train stated after a four-0 French Cup win at Vannes on Monday, while Mbappe netted a hat-trick.
"He is a top player inside the international. He played properly. We enjoyed watching the team. His goals were the icing on the cake."
Messi examined positive for Covid in his native Argentina last week however is back in Paris, although PSG are but to say if he could be to be had for Sunday's sport towards Lyon following the Ligue 1 wintry weather wreck.
PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, defender Juan Bernat and midfielders Danilo Pereira, Julian Draxler and Angel Di Maria have all additionally examined nice for the virus.
Even if seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi is absent, the runaway leaders will nonetheless be heavy favourites in opposition to a Lyon aspect languishing thirteenth in the desk and on a five-suit winless run.
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The French top flight has accompanied its European counterparts in Germany, Italy and England in seeing games behind schedule due to Covid.
