Mauricio Pochettino, February 3, 2021 during the victory of PSG against Nîmes, 3-0.

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Mauricio Pochettino appeared in front of the press at twenty-four hours of the second leg against Barça at the Parc des Princes.

And as usual since his arrival at PSG, the Argentine technician has not said much very interesting, probably reserving his lyrical flights for his players.

And we will spare you the passage of Keylor Navas, a few minutes earlier, for fear of making you sleepy all afternoon.

So what have we learned from the mouth of “Poché”?

That Paris was going to play this return match to "win it" and that they would have to "be as good, if not better than the first leg" to achieve it.

"We must be fully from the first minute to get this qualification and assume that the two teams are 0-0," he added.

Regarding the greening of the group, decided by Pochettino and his staff in agreement with the players, the former manager of Tottenham explained to have "felt that this is what the team needed, to be all together tonight [Tuesday] to be fit and psychologically ready for the game ”.

Meet over a coffee to talk about Mbappé

La Pochette was a little more talkative about the Neymar case, forfeited for the match on Wednesday: "He made the efforts to be back in shape as quickly as possible, the medical staff did their best, it is a shame because he is disappointed that he cannot be there in this particular game in his eyes.

It's difficult for him at the moment because he thought he could come back but the point is, it was too early.

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Presence of our Spanish colleagues requires, the Parisian coach had to return to the contract extension of Mbappé which is dragging on and on the rumor Messi in Paris.

With inevitably a response from Normand to the key: “It is not my role to talk about a player from other clubs.

And for Mbappé I cannot answer either.

We are focused on the Barça game, this is not the time to talk about it.

Maybe later, at the end of the season over a coffee (laughs), but now is not the time.

I am serious, I do not even speak of wood.

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