The planetary star is expected to finally raise his level of play and guide PSG to victory in 8e first leg of the Champions League.
At Paris SG, no one doubts it. Not a single second. Simple facade speech or true sincere belief? Within the club, the speech has not changed one iota. Lionel Messi is gaining momentum and the meeting against Real Madrid on Tuesday evening comes at the best of times so that fine words give way to deeds and dispel many doubts. In other words, don’t worry, the best is coming. ” We expect him to play a great matchplants Marquinhos, a wise and resolutely optimistic captain. I hope to see a great player who will be decisive, efficient and who will help the team. That’s all we expect from a great man, from a great Messi, he is more and more comfortable, calm, gets used to France and Ligue 1. “One certainty remains, at the end of the double confrontation against the biggest club in the world, we will know much more about the impact and the weight of the sevenfold Ballon d’Or, far from having given complete satisfaction since his arrival at PSG. last August.
To be honest, in Madrid we think Messi will struggle in the Champions League when the pace increases, we have to repeat our efforts, be decisive.
Pablo Polo, reporter at Marca
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Until now and since his summer arrival followed all over the world, everyone has commented on it – sometimes the opposite – to try to analyze the level of play of the former FC Barcelona star. A better thrust / an almost total loss of explosiveness, rising statistics (involved in 12 goals in PSG’s last 10 matches with 6 goals and 6 assists) / ridiculous numbers (2 goals scored in Ligue 1 , less than Adil Rami in particular), a better adaptation to Paris/a notable spleen of Catalan sweetness… So many reasons which symbolize both the hope of seeing the monster wake up and the fear of witnessing the twilight of a myth. At 34, “la Pulga”, after seventeen years in Catalonia, is expected at the turn and the Parc des Princes has everything from the ideal setting to allow him to finally put on his costume of light on Tuesday evening. And to prove that his acclimatization to PSG is finally digested. The best is yet to come.
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«To be honest, in Madrid we think Messi will struggle in the Champions League when the pace increases, we have to repeat our efforts, be decisive.claims Pablo Polo, a reporter for Mark. He’s struggled in the Champions League for a few years with Barca, why would that change this year? Messi is not at his best in Paris and even when he was at Barca for the last two or three years he was less decisive. “And our colleague to drive the point home:” the Real supporter is more afraid of Mbappé than of Messi or Neymar. »
42% of victories against Real Madrid, Lionel Messi knows that by heart
A state of affairs remains, Tuesday evening, the Argentinian will find a club he knows by heart, the same for his opponents and against which he took pleasure in making an impression. In his career, he even has 42% of victories against the Merengue for a largely positive record of 19 wins, 11 draws, 15 losses and 26 goals scored in 45 games. Gargantuan. ” Messi was Madrid’s worst enemy for many years, he thought he was going to forget Real Madrid, but history brings him back to this club againrecognizes Enrique Iglesias, journalist at the Cadena Cope. He is still very feared here. »
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If he is no longer the fabulous player of the “MSN” that he composed with Suarez and Neymar at Barça, even less the permanent threat capable of making multiple and repeated differences, Lionel Messi will necessarily be keen to show a whole another face than the one unveiled so far. On a set piece (he has already hit the uprights at PSG 7 times in this exercise), an inspiration of genius, the Park is ready to capsize, as was the case in particular against Manchester City in the group stage or against Lille more recently. The opportunity is ideal to strike a blow and send a message throughout Europe. Hurry up.
