PSG will secure their place in the knockout stages of the Champions League with a victory over Israeli side Maccabi Haifa on Tuesday.

Group H is still all to play for, with Benfica favourites to join PSG in the next round at Juventus‘ expense, but the Parisians can’t afford to ease up just yet as they look to cement their place as group winners.

Maccabi Haifa are still in with a shout of progressing after they stunned Juventus last time out, so don’t expect them to lie down.

Here’s all you need to know about this one.

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Current Form (Last Five Games)

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PSG team news

Marco Verratti is suspended after racking up the yellow cards but Neymar and Sergio Ramos will both return to the lineup after serving their own domestic suspensions which kept them out of the weekend’s Ligue 1 action.

Danilo Pereira and Nuno Mendes are both injured but there is hope that defender Presnel Kimpembe will be back on the bench after a month out with a hamstring injury.

PSG Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Donnarumma; Mukiele, Marquinhos, Ramos; Hakimi, Vitinha, Fabian, Bernat; Messi, Neymar; Mbappe
Bench: Navas, Letellier, Bitshiabu, Kimpembe, Zaire-Emery, Kari, Sanches, Gharbi, Sarabia, Ekitike

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Maccabi Haifa team news

The Israeli side will be without Suf Podgoreanu, Dolev Haziza and Mahmoud Jaber, with manager Barak Bakhar expected to deploy the same lineup that stunned Juventus.

Maccabi Haifa Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Cohen; Sundgren, Batubinsika, Goldberg, Cornud; Mohamed, Lavi; Atzili, Chery, David; Pierrot
Bench: Fucs, Mishpati, Arad, Gershon, Seck, Menahem, Eliyahu, Meir, Abu Fani, Levi, Tchibota, Rukavytsya

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PSG haven’t been completely infallible in recent weeks. They’ve drawn three of their last five, two of which came against Benfica earlier in this competition, and they are yet to keep a clean sheet in European competition.

That will give Maccabi some confidence, as will the fact they scored in a 3-1 home defeat to PSG last month, but Christophe Galtier’s side will expect a comprehensive victory back at Parc des Princes.

While a plucky underdog story would be great for the neutral, we can’t see it happening.

Prediction: PSG 3-0 Maccabi Haifa