{"id":510000,"date":"2026-02-28T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:14:08","slug":"champions-league-psg-match-v-nantes-postponed-to-give-longer-break-between-chelsea-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510000\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: PSG match v Nantes postponed to give longer break between Chelsea ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paris St-Germain will have five days off between the two legs of their Champions League last-16 tie against Chelsea after their request to postpone a Ligue 1 match was granted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The European champions were due to face struggling Nantes on the weekend of 13-15 March, either side of their legs against Chelsea on Wednesday, 11 March and Tuesday, 17 March, but that game has been moved to the week starting 20 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea host Newcastle United in the Premier League on Saturday, 14 March (17:30 GMT) &#8211; three days before Luis Enrique&#8217;s PSG visit Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the request of Paris St-Germain, in order to best prepare for their two-legged tie against Chelsea, the LFP [Ligue de Football Professionnel] board of directors, in agreement with Nantes, have decided the Paris St-Germain-Nantes match will be played the week of April 20,&#8221; a Ligue 1 statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The exact date and time of the match will be determined later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PSG also had a Ligue 1 game against Nantes delayed last season, with the tie initially falling between the two legs of their Champions League quarter-final victory over Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cpwqnpdz929t\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat PSG 3-0<\/a> in last year&#8217;s Fifa Club World Cup final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris St-Germain will have five days off between the two legs of their Champions League last-16 tie against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-510000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}