France, March 16 -- Paris Saint-Germain boss Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday ruled out the return of star striker Neymar to the side's line-up for the rescheduled last-16 Coupe de France clash against Lille. The Brazilian will remain on the sidelines as he recovers from last month'smuscle injury.

PSG, who are holders of the trophy, go into Wednesday afternoon's game at the Parc des Princes on the back of Sunday's shock 2-1 home defeat to relegation-threatened Nantes.

Victory would have allowed PSG to usurp Lille at the summit of Ligue 1 on goal difference.

However after the setback, they remain three points behind Christophe Galtier's team.

The last-16 cup game should have been played on 6 or 7 April. But competition organisers brought...