Two days before the Monaco-PSG match, in the Champions League playoff first leg, already 10 absentees are to be noted in total, but numerous other players are uncertain, including Ousmane Dembele and Maghnes Akliouche.

PSG and AS Monaco had very different preparations on Friday. While Luis Enrique's men lost 3-1 at Rennes, Sebastien Pocognoli's team won by the same score against FC Nantes with a brace from Simon Adingra, the Ivorian winger recruited this winter by AS Monaco, who will be able to play against PSG Tuesday night.

Two days before Monaco-PSG, no fewer than 8 players are already confirmed to miss the match due to injury. On the Parisian side, only one player is definitely out: Quentin Ndjantou. The young Parisian midfielder recently underwent thigh surgery and will not play again for several weeks.

Uncertainty surrounds several other Parisians, however, starting with Fabian Ruiz and Senny Mayulu, who were ruled out against Rennes on Friday. The Spanish midfielder has been absent since Jan. 20 due to the knee blow he received against Sporting CP, while the young French midfielder felt minor discomfort in his left calf this week. According to Le Parisien, both will be ruled out against Monaco on Tuesday.

According to L'Equipe, Ousmane Dembele also came out with minor discomfort against Rennes when he was substituted in the 74th minute by Goncalo Ramos. Minor discomfort that does not seem likely to call his participation in the Monaco match into question, according to Le Parisien. Injured Friday in the shoulder and replaced by Dro Fernandez in the 71st minute, Joao Neves should also be available, according to L'Equipe and Le Parisien, but that remains to be confirmed in the coming hours.

On the AS Monaco side, the infirmary is full to the brim and three long-term injured players are already confirmed to miss the match as they were completely removed from AS Monaco's UEFA list last week. They are Mohammed Salisu, Takumi Minamino and Paul Pogba. Other players have been injured for some time and will not return on Tuesday: Lukas Hradecky, Eric Dier, Pape Cabral and Kassoum Ouattara.

During their win against Nantes, Monaco also lost Maghnes Akliouche to injury in the 41st minute. According to Sebastien Pocognoli, the French international "was hit muscularly" after "a flexion at his hip on a poorly weighted back pass." Akliouche was scheduled to undergo medical exams on Saturday and the severity of his potential injury is not yet known, but he is very uncertain about the visit of PSG.

Lamine Camara, Lucas Chevalier's best friend (sic), was substituted just past the hour mark after receiving a blow to the Achilles tendon from a Nantes player: "Concerning Lamine, it's more prevention, because he received a somewhat dangerous tackle that was surprisingly not called. It was the same for Vanderson, Zak' (Denis Zakaria) and Folarin (Balogun), whom we wanted to preserve," Monaco's Belgian coach said Friday night, sounding rather reassuring about his Senegalese midfielder.

Often injured this season and absent since Jan. 3, central defender Christian Mawissa has still not resumed group training and while he is not yet officially ruled out for Tuesday, his presence is very uncertain there as well. Monaco did, however, recover last Friday its Spanish attacker Ansu Fati, who is no longer injured and played 30 minutes against Nantes.

Absentees for Monaco-PSG with two days to go:

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