ANALYSIS
The 2019-2020 vintage of the Champions League did not really start well Tuesday night, with the Lyon draw against Zenith Saint-Petersburg (1-1) and Lille's defeat at Ajax (3-0). ). Wednesday night, it is the turn of PSG to enter the dance, and the task will not be easy against the great Real Madrid at the Parc des Princes. Especially since the club of the capital is deprived of Cavani, Neymar and Mbappé.
"It's always more difficult when your creators are not there, when your artists are absent," euphemistic Alain Roche, the Europe 1 football consultant and former defender of PSG. "Especially since it was one of the most effective and efficient attacks of the previous year"
"The Real Madrid team is less luminous, less solid, but ..."
"But we have to do without these artists, PSG to find the answer collectively," says Alain Roche, who does not pay into an unbridled optimism. "It is true that we have not seen much since the beginning of the season, we have not seen a match," he admits. "But it's also a game to gauge, to know more about the level, the value of new recruits who have joined the Paris-Saint-Germain club like Sarabia, Idrissa Gueye or Icardi."
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That said, in front, Real Madrid is not yet again the scarecrow who won four Champions League in five years, between 2014 and 2018. "The team is less bright, it is less solid defensively than the last year, that the past years, "said Alain Roche, who warned all the same:" His record shows that it is still present in the Champions League games.As soon as this music resonates, we can count on this Real Madrid Even if there are a lot of absentees too, Ramos is not here, Modric either, Isco, Marcelo ... But you can count on this team, which is extremely prepared for this kind of matches ".