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PARIS (AP) — Facing a rampant Manchester United side in the Champions League was already a tough enough prospect for Paris Saint-Germain.Tuesday night’s match in chilly northwest England now looks a daunting one amid an ongoing injury crisis.PSG will be without the world’s most expensive player Neymar and possibly 192-goal www.thetopsoccer.com/tottenham-hotspur , all-time club leading scorer Edinson Cavani against a revitalized United side unbeaten under its new coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.Furthermore, PSG will go to United with doubts over whether key midfielder Marco Verratti should start the game, having played barely one hour on Saturday in a 1-0 win against Bordeaux after recovering from a sprained ankle.“It’s very difficult to play when you’ve been injured like Marco,” PSG coach Thomas Tuchel said. “I don’t know if it’s possible for him to play again at Old Trafford in three days’ time. In our situation, it might be necessary.”Tuchel spoke with an air of resignation after a dull encounter in which PSG extended its lead in the French league to 13 points over second-place Lille.“If your key players are not there, obviously it makes a difference. If Edinson is not in Manchester, then it is a big deal,” Tuchel said. “There has been too much bad luck; these are players of great quality.”Cavani limped off with a thigh problem caused when he scored from the penalty spot in the 42nd minute, blasting the ball powerfully with his right foot. Moments later, he walked off before the halftime whistle was blown.Tuchel was concerned whether Cavani will recover for the first leg of the last 16 against United.“I don’t have any good news. We need to wait. I honestly don’t know (if Cavani will play),” Tuchel earlier told broadcaster Canal Plus. “Yes Cheap Argentina Soccer Jerseys , it’s worrying. It’s not a good sign. We don’t have another Edi (Cavani), we don’t have another Neymar.”PSG is already without Neymar — who cost PSG 222 million euros ($252 million) when he joined from Barcelona — for the next two months.Verratti started against Bordeaux but looked rusty, with several passes going astray. Tuchel needs Verratti against a United midfield featuring the in-form Paul Pogba , but the 58 minutes he played may not have been enough to restore his sharpness and rhythm.Strasbourg missed the chance to move from seventh to fifth place after losing at home to Angers 2-1, with 20-year-old striker Wilfried Kanga grabbing his first two goals in the top flight.Amiens beat Caen 1-0 thanks to a goal from striker Moussa Konate and moved out of the relegation zone, while Caen dropped to 18th.This weekend, Argentine striker Emiliano Sala is being honored with a minute of applause in the top two leagues in France. The crowd at PSG’s Parc des Princes chanted the name of the Nantes player at the start of the game.Nantes plans to retire the No. 9 jersey in memory of Sala , who died at the age of 28 last month.Sala was flying to Wales to start his career with Premier League side Cardiff when his plane disappeared over the English Channel. The wreckage was found last Sunday and a body recovered was confirmed as Sala’s on Thursday.Nantes fans will pay their tributes to Sala in Sunday’s home game against Nimes, where players will swap their traditional yellow home jerseys for black ones with Sala’s name on. BERLIN (AP) — German soccer federation president Reinhard Grindel resigned Tuesday, bowing to increasing pressure following allegations of undeclared earnings, the receipt of a luxury watch and general discontent with his leadership.Grindel Soccer Jerseys Wholesale , who promised greater transparency after taking over in April 2016, apologized for accepting a watch worth about 6,000 euros ($6,700) from Ukrainian oligarch Grigoriy Surkis – a UEFA vice president and executive committee member at the time.“Everyone who knows me knows that I am not greedy and have been dealing with compliance issues for years,” Grindel said in a statement issued by the federation. “Mr. Surkis had no financial interest in the DFB (German federation). He never asked me for any support, then or after. It was clear at the time that he would not run again for UEFA’s ExCo, to which he no longer belongs. There was and is no conflict of interest for me.”The federation said vice presidents Rainer Koch and Reinhard Rauball would take over on an interim basis until September. Koch and Rauball also took over after Grindel’s predecessor, Wolfgang Niersbach, stepped down in November 2015 amid the fall out from allegations that Germany’s bid to host the World Cup in 2006 was helped by bribery. Niersbach’s predecessor, Theo Zwanziger, stepped down in 2012.Grindel’s tenure as president was the shortest in the 114 years of the federation.On Monday Cheap Australia Soccer Shirts , the 47-year-old Grindel avoided the red carpet at the opening of the German soccer museum in Dortmund.Grindel was accused by German weekly magazine Der Spiegel last week of failing to declare additional income of 78,000 euros ($87,000) for being chairman of the federation’s subsidiary media management company in 2016 and 2017 – on top of his regular salary as president.The federation issued a statement to reject the accusations, saying Grindel took on the position with its subsidiary company only after he became president, and so was not obliged to declare the earnings at the time.But criticism of Grindel was growing louder.“When you’re in such a position and such things come to light, you should at last have arguments to put them aside as soon as possible,” former West Germany midfielder Lothar Matthaeus said. “The DFB has been on shaky ground before.”Grindel was already under fire for his clumsy attempts to engage with fans while increasing the commercial appeal of German soccer. Monday night games, late kickoff times, and a ban on pyrotechnics have all proved unpopular with fans, who frequently display banners at games criticizing the federation.The former federation treasurer also emerged badly from his ham-fisted attempts to handle the controversy of national team players Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan posing for photos with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the 2018 World Cup.Ozil quit after the tournament, saying he was being made a scapegoat for the team’s poor performance and a target for racist abuse – and he was particularly scathing of Grindel Cheap Belgium Soccer Jerseys , who subsequently expressed his regret over his handling of the matter.Grindel was criticized for agreeing to a hasty contract extension with Germany coach Joachim Loew after the tournament, while he recently complained about Loew’s decision to drop Mats Hummels, Jerome Boateng and Thomas Mueller from the team – before doubling back.Grindel was also embarrassed in 2017 when a scheme to allow China’s under-20 team to play against fourth-division clubs was abandoned because of protests from supporters displaying Tibetan flags.Andreas Rettig, managing director of second-division club St. Pauli, said at the opening of the new soccer museum that Grindel would not get a place in its hall of fame.“The DFB’s appearance,” Rettig said, “has long been in need of improvement.”