Victorious in London on the outward journey (1-0), PSG has an appointment with its audience on Wednesday. Faced with Arsenal, the club wants to write one of the biggest pages in its history, by rising in the C1 final.
PSG has already experienced a final, lost in 2020 against Bayern in Lisbon, but the pandemic period was then much less conducive to the collective party. On Wednesday, on Wednesday, the Parc des Princes will adorn itself with its most beautiful attire to support its team which managed to thwart the forecasts after its beginning of the laborious season to reach the last square of the most prestigious continental competition.
Groups of supporters hope to be able to organize rallies near the stadium for those who could not have a ticket.
Since the victory at the Emirates Stadium last Tuesday, PSG has been trying to prepare the return match as if it were not in favorable ballot to rally Munich on May 31, in order to rule out the spectrum of the traumatic lifts suffered during its recent European history. We will also have to forget the semi -final return of last year – 1-0 defeat against Dortmund synonymous with elimination – even though the park was to transcend players.
Coach Luis Enrique said it at the end of March: “I work every day to avoid relaxation. All adversaries have difficulty and have the motivation to fight. The excess of joy can blur your ideas”.
On the way out, PSG may have benefited from this apparent “excess of joy” from Arsenal which had just eliminated Real Madrid, surprising the English in their stadium with an early goal from Ousmane Dembélé.
Force fate
The one who turned this season into prolific attacker (28 goals since his replacement in “false number 9” in December) should be able to play Wednesday evening. Good news, since its exit on injury in the 70th minute in London had charged some doubts.
The club reassured on its account on Friday, believing that its “muscle stretch of the hamstrings of the right thigh (…) evolved favorably”. Ousmane Dembélé chained two collective training at the start of the week and Luis Enrique said Tuesday that his player was “available” to play the semi-final.
-The others of the coach are not convincing for the role of “false new”, between Gonçalo Ramos, a conventional center-center, Bradley Barcola, who is above all a good winger and desired Doué, brilliant everywhere else but less in this position. Not to mention Lee Kang-in, who has never convinced in this special register.
For its part, Arsenal, which deplores many injured for several months, records the return of suspension of the Thomas Parte midfielder. His presence could change the physiognomy of the match compared to the first leg, where Paris had generally succeeded in controlling the London interview.
“Rage”
If Paris has just lost two Ligue 1 matches, without stake since he is already champion, the Gunners conceded their fourth defeat of the Premier League season on Saturday, at home against Bournemouth (2-1).
“We had said that we wanted to create a good atmosphere, that a positive result would really help us build what we wanted for Wednesday,” said coach Mikel Arteta. “What we have created now is a lot of rage, anger, frustration and an unpleasant feeling in the belly. So we have to use it on Wednesday to achieve a big performance in Paris, win the match and win the final.”
Arsenal will try to refer to its convincing victory on October 1 against PSG (2-0), but the French club was not the same. Since then, Paris has become more intense in pressing, more united and more efficient in finish. To the point of defeating Manchester City (4-2) or Liverpool on penalties in the round of 16, before ensuring the essentials against Aston Villa in quarters.
Enough to feed, among supporters, the hope of a first Champions League, the obsession of the club since its acquisition by Qatar Sports Investments in 2011.
This article was published automatically. Sources: ATS / AFP
