Every day, the morning of Europe 1 looks back on one of the sporting events that make the news.

This Tuesday, Virginie Phulpin is interested in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League between PSG and Bayern Munich.

According to her, Parisians and Germans have two very different ways of preparing mentally.

PSG host Bayern Munich tonight to try to qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League.

The Parisians won 3-2 in the first leg.

To note columnist Virginie Phulpin, what is striking are the diametrically opposed ways that the two teams have to approach this return match mentally and to communicate about it. 

"There is a team that claims to be the best in the world and shouts it loud and clear when they lost in the first leg, it's Bayern Munich. And a team that looks like a little thumb. little shy when she won, it's Paris-Saint-Germain. Go figure.

In fact there is the German method and the French method.

In Bavaria, we are the reigning European champion, we have six Champions League victories in history, and it's not a defeat in the first leg that will instill doubt in people's minds, at least publicly. .

Not the kind of house.

The statements of midfielder Joshua Kimmich are a perfect illustration of this.

"We are going to qualify because we are the best team."

Imagine that Kylian Mbappé pronounces it for PSG.

In France we would have an outcry against this player who took the big head.

Even when he tries one too many leg cramps, his ankles are already found to be swelling.

In Munich, Bayern supporters and staff find no fault with Kimmich's statements.

On the contrary.

This team has a status, and it assumes it.  

How sure are the Germans to qualify? 

Of course not.

This team doubts, there have even been some tensions over the past week, but we certainly do not show it.

It is both self-persuasion and a way of getting into Parisian brains before the match.

Even when the Bayern coach praises Kylian Mbappé, it's double-edged.

Hansi Flick says of him that he will become one of the best players in the world.

In the future.

While the French striker slammed them a double six days ago.

He's one of the best now, and we know that at Bayern.

When we say that Parisians are arrogant, you see that there is room.

But the PSG also made the intoxicating.

When coach Mauricio Pochettino also insists that the opponent is the best team in the world and that we will have to show solidarity to resist, he is aware that he has Navas, Mbappé and Neymar in his ranks.

But it stings the pride of its players.

And he also protects his team, which we know to be fragile during the return matches.

Two teams, two opposing poisons, two ways to prepare mentally.

I find it very interesting to see these two cultures face to face, and I am quite unable to tell you who made the right choice.

But hey, it still itches a little to turn their cackles down to those arrogant Germans. "