The new format of the Champions League brings a few of Europe’s greats down the street of bitterness. Real Madrid, the current champion, has destroyed its European aura with two surprising defeats, in Lille and at the Bernabéu against Milan, which will give an unexpected added thrill to its qualification for the knockout rounds. Bayern has the same numbers, which started out in command in the tournament and after two setbacks is now neck and neck with its eternal European rival outside the top eight places in the standings. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and the excellence of football are a little better, with a draw and a heavy defeat behind them, and Atlético is a little worse despite their recent defeat in Paris or their own Paris Saint-Germainwho were outplayed at home this week against Cholo Simeone’s team.
Everyone has a lot of work ahead of them to try to ensure a direct pass to the round of 16 in the four remaining days of the first phase, and in some cases the calendar predicts dangerous curves that could even end in an off-track. , with an early elimination. This is the case of the French club, which after four games occupies twenty-fifth position, bordering on the positions that imply goodbye to Europe.
The Parisians have a whole Bayern team ahead of them, whom they must visit in Munich, and a City team that will visit the Parc des Princes in need of recovering their authority and scoring points. Two major challenges to which the visits to Salzburg and Stuttgart will be added.
own Luis Enrique He warned that given this schedule, the scarce four points they have out of the twelve that have been played could jeopardize their classification. “We will fight until the end,” proclaimed the Asturian coach, visibly angry after losing at the last minute against Atlético, a result that he considered unfair. And the one from Gijón is not lacking part of the reason, since his team, according to the numbers, is one of the ones that shoots the most in the Champions League and the ones that best protects itself, but this good work has only been reflected in three goals scored for five against.
The team from the French capital will have to sharpen its aim to take advantage of this flow of play and try to win at least two of the four games ahead. Otherwise The classification and the Champions League will be in danger, which is already making the Parc des Princes tremble.
“If we fall, appropriate measures will be taken”
The continental competition has been around for many years the great obsession of PSG and its Qatari ownersso a new disaster could cause an earthquake in Paris. Luis Enrique himself is aware and acknowledged this in the press conference after the defeat against Atlético: «If we are eliminated, the appropriate measures will be taken, there is no doubt. “I am not in football with fear, I assume the consequences.”
After the departure last summer of Kylian Mbappé, the PSG project has pivoted around its charismatic coach, who since the departure of the Bondy-born footballer has had no qualms about acknowledging that the new plan is to build an author teamdownplaying the stars and giving it to the team as a whole and the style of play. An extreme that the club itself and its president Nasser Al Khelaïfi have endorsed, ensuring that the objective beyond the results is to build a powerful and winning team in the long term.
That is why it seems that Luis Enrique has a two-year renewal on track, even signed according to some sources in France, but if the disaster occurs, the Asturian’s time in Paris could have an expiration date.
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