Why this time, for sure, there really won't be a comeback

PSG won't make the same mistake twice against Barca and you are told why Mbappé scored twice at Barça-PSG on February 16, 2021. - AFP PSG won 4-1 on Barça's lawn. As in 2017, Paris has immense chances of qualifying. But, unlike four years ago, the Parisians will not fail. We give you ten reasons to believe it. “Any resemblance to situations that have already existed would only be purely fortuitous”. Here, we prefer to warn you right away: yes, a PSG who slips four in t

Mbappé scored twice at Barça-PSG on February 16, 2021. -

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PSG won 4-1 on Barça's lawn.
As in 2017, Paris has immense chances of qualifying.
But, unlike four years ago, the Parisians will not fail.
We give you ten reasons to believe it.

“Any resemblance to situations that have already existed would only be purely fortuitous”.

Here, we prefer to warn you right away: yes, a PSG who slips four in the excavations of Barça in the first leg of the Champions League, it's déjà vu.

On the other hand, no, no matter what you tell us what you want, this year there will never be a question of remountada.

That's why.

Because it's at the Parc des Princes, already

Rest assured, the joy of seeing a French club having fun at Barça did not make us totally stupid, we know that the return match will be played well behind closed doors.

But have you ever seen what it looks like, you, a return match of the Champions League in a park behind closed doors?

If not, just type “PSG-Dortmund” on YouTube and you'll see.

Last year, the PSG ultras had come in large numbers to support their team from outside the stadium, at the foot of the Auteuil Virage, with drums, crackles of smoke and everything.

So, of course, it was not mega Covid-friendly, but it had given the players strength to reverse the situation and qualify for the rest of the competition.

We are not saying that this will necessarily be the case on March 10, but our little finger tells us that the Parisians will not be totally alone in the return match.

Because no Neymar

We are not going to play the recorder, if there has been a comeback, it is only because Neymar was on the lawn on the evening of March 7, 2017. Without him, even Deniz Aytekin putting all the best will of the world would not have succeeded in reversing the scenario of the first leg.

However, by stopping at PSG the following year, the Brazilian took with him the very concept of a comeback, it's that simple.

PS: When we say no Neymar, it's on both sides.

Seeing the score of the first leg, the Brazilian surely took his first ticket to Rio to complete his rehabilitation with Counter Strike games in his villa in Mangaratiba before reappearing as if by magic in the quarter-finals.

Because Mbappé did not know that

Let's put it bluntly.

2017 was a crappy year for Parisians.

The comeback is always there, somewhere in the minds of Marquinhos, Verratti, Draxler ... But Kyky, he did not know the humiliation of 6-1 at Camp Nou.

That year, he exploded in the Champions League with AS Monaco while PSG lamented his fate.

Suffice to say that Barça's psychological hold on the French mega-crack is zero.

Because no Thiago Silva

It's free, we agree.

Because this Barça, quite simply

Whoever saw Tuesday's match and knows a little about football will have realized that Barça is far from being cured.

So certainly, things have been better for a few weeks in La Liga, Messi has regained a taste for life after his post-demontada depression against Bayern (8-2 in the Final 8), Griezmann once again puts one foot in front of the other, Dembélé has not farted in ten games (an eternity on its scale), but Tuesday's European test showed that this team was only a shadow of what it may have been in the past.

Honestly, it is not clear how the Blaugranas could find the mental resources to overthrow PSG for a second time in the second leg.

Because the PSG version "Poché" was born Tuesday evening

You know just as much as we do, top sport is all about the details and sometimes it takes three times nothing for a group to mentally switch to the positive side of strength.

As such, the large 4-1 success at Camp Nou has a good face of a founding match for PSG.

Especially since it intervenes in a particular context, with the arrival of a new coach and his staff in the middle of an already very bizarre season because of the Covid.

It is therefore not impossible that we witnessed the birth of a team on Tuesday evening.

A team that should do what is necessary not to spoil the performance acquired in the first leg on the return.

Because Messi wants to keep his friends in Paris

In 2017, after his return match dégling

o against PSG, Neymar had tumbled in the capital with the label "Remontada" tacked on the front.

A lack of taste that Leo Messi will certainly not do, since it seems that this is the scenario planned for this summer.

No, the Argentinian is too politically savvy to be fooled into going to urinate on his future home.

But don't make us say what we didn't say, on March 10th he'll do the job, eh, maybe he'll even stick a few pawns on Navas.

It's just that he knows that behind him there is a Lenglet-Piqué hinge that has no equal for leaving boulevards behind his back.

Because the players will not shoot catastrophic video before the match

It is hard to see the PSG comm 'once again agreeing to bring together three players around a table to make apothecary calculations in order to know by how many goals Paris has the right to lose.

For those who don't know what we're talking about, we'll refresh your memory with this video.

Because PSG is a Champions League finalist

The comeback had generated a deep trauma, known as “the knockout stages of C1”.

By eliminating Borussia Dortmund last year before later stumbling on the last step of the Final 8 in Lisbon, Paris proved they were cured.

Better still, his new status as European vice-champion gives him the confidence that he was so lacking in the past to manage this kind of situation.

Because Deniz Aytekin is injured

The 2017 executioner is recovering from a cruciate ligament injury - it's no joke - and won't be back in the Bundesliga until the end of the year.

The way is therefore clear for Paris Saint-Germain.

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