MADRID 10 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Paris Saint-Germain that trains the Spanish Luis Enrique Martínez will try to turn its round of 16 of the 2024-2025 Champions League against the English Liverpool, which clings to Anfield to avoid a surprise, which seems more unlikely to suffer both the German Bayern Munich and the Inter-Italian Inter Milan before the Italian Milan against Bayer Leverkusen and Feyenoord respectively.
The PSG seems close to suffering a new disappointment in the maximum continental competition after seeing how the ‘reds’ took the 0-1 victory in the Princes Park after a match where the French team lacked more aiming to beat a successful Alisson Becker.
The result is not impossible to turn, but the champion of Ligue 1 will have to do it in the Temple of the Hexacampeón of Europe, a scenario where this season has only been able to do it the surprising Nottingham Forest (0-1), and where they have lost the seven French teams that played a qualifying qualifier there.
The four visitors in the league phase of this Champions fell defeated and only the French Lille was able to score (2-1), while two ‘large’ teams such as Real Madrid (2-0) and Bayer Leverkusen (4-0) could barely do anything.
The team that trains Arne Slot, however, is not at a time of the season as lush as he presumed in 2024 and that can open more options to a PSG that already showed that he can harm him and that he was already in a similar situation last season when he traced FC Barcelona in the return of the quarterfinals at Lluis Companys.
Neither Dembélé nor Mohamed Salah, the main referents of PSG and Liverpool, were too protagonists a week ago in the French capital and their teams cling to them again to issue the final sentence to a tie whose second leg has visions to look little to the first leg, with the premises surely wanting to send more, so you could see an electric and dizzying shock.
Luis Enrique will not speculate with anything and will surely put the same eleven with which he did a lot of damage to a Arne Slot who has the doubt of the Dutch Cody Gakpo and that he must take care of the many warnings that the theoretical first of the quarter is lost (Konaté, Mac Allister, Robertson and Van Dijk).
Anfield’s clash seems the most exciting of Tuesday’s duels of these roundsters in the end since, with FC Barcelona, having apparently well-touched its crossing with the Portuguese Benfica after the 0-1 of Da Luz, both Bayern Munich and Inter Milan have very decored it in their favor.
The Muniqués set left without too much emotion the one that seemed an attractive duel between the two best teams in the Bundesliga by clashing clearly 3-0 to the Bayer Leverkusen of Xabi Alonso in the Allianz Arena and forcing his rival to an epic comeback.
However, the current German champion is not at the most solid time, as he demonstrated his league defeat in Bayarena last weekend against Werder Bremen to say goodbye to his options to reissue title against a Bavarian team that also ceded surprisingly at home against Bochum.
Leverkusen will try to pull epic to put emotion as soon as possible in the tie, but he will also have to seriously do it in attack for the absence of his best footballer, Florian Wirtz, before a Bayern without Manuel Neuer in goal and who already demonstrated his experience in the first leg.
Finally, excessive problems for another of the candidates are not expected to go far, Inter Milan, who will want to assert the Giuseppe Meazza the valuable 0-2 achieved in De Kuip before a Feyenoord that already proved to be inferior and that to win will have to do what no one has done so far in this Champions League: to make more than one goal to those of Simone Inzaghi. The ‘Neroazzurri’ have only received somewhat, in Bayarena, in nine games and could reserve one of their warnings (Dumfries, Pavard, Barella) and a ‘touched’ Lautaro Martínez.