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Barça's European history has a large number of comebacks.

Of magical nights in which something that seemed almost impossible ends up becoming reality.

Against PSG, after the 1-4 conceded in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, he needs an even more complicated feat, to play away from home.

The image and attitude that the team has shown in recent games, however, seems to leave a small window of hope.

«The best recipe is trust.

It is the one that those in the dressing room have to have, starting with the coach, who is the one who can transmit it to the players and convince them.

I, at least, felt it that way and Luis, in that situation, succeeded », explains

Juan Carlos Unzué

, second Barça coach in

Luis Enrique's time

at Barça.

Then, after conceding 4-0 in Paris, the team won 6-1 at the Camp Nou.

«The recipe always involves being fully convinced that you can get it.

In every sense.

It is not worth saying it from the outside while you think that, really, it is not going to happen ", points out

Ángel 'Pichi' Alonso

, author of a hat trick against Goteborg in 1986 that allowed to force the extension and that the Barça played the final of the European Cup.

The 3-0 in the first leg provoked harsh criticism.

"If you are hurt in your pride, obviously there is that interior pique and in the dressing room, that desire to shut up, and you get that anger to look for the comeback," he reiterates.

PSG practically passed over the Catalans at the Camp Nou.

But, in the end, that may be another factor to consider.

“With such an adverse outcome, you let go, you really have nothing to lose.

And, curiously, when you remove those fears, those fears, that is when your best version appears », explains Unzué.

"What has in favor of Barça, within how bad that result is, is that the feeling is that everything is lost and that it would be the milk to turn it around again," he emphasizes.

In his case, he explains that in the dressing room the typical thing of wallpapering the walls with cuts referring to PSG was not done to motivate himself, although it is something that he remembers having lived as a player.

"Of this type of thing, I remember once, at the time of Hugo Sánchez with Madrid, some statements that he made that were used as motivation, like 'look what they are saying, we are going to show that it is not true.'

In the rest of the years that I was here, in different roles, I had no other experience of that kind, "he says.

The attitude, according to Pichi Alonso, when the game comes, of course, is also very important: “In our case, we went with the intention of intimidating the rival.

We were clear that we had to put them between a rock and a hard place, that we were going to go all out.

They had to see that, if they passed, it would not be because we won 3-0 in the first leg.

That they thought 'these are crazy, they go to everything' ".

Unzué, for his part, highlights all the previous work: «On the bench, you have to be attentive to, at a certain moment, especially through changes, to be able to vary something, if necessary.

But, from the outset, the most important thing is what you generate before.

Goals, according to Pichi Alonso, have to be something collective: “Goals can be scored by a forward, but they can also be scored by a midfielder.

It is not about hanging that responsibility on the backs or Messi, or Dembélé, or anyone.

In his opinion, the current moment of the team, despite the difficult objective, is a point in favor.

"Now they are winning games, they have reached the Cup final, they are three points behind the leader when they were eight before and all that makes us believe more in the team's possibilities," he says.

Neymar

, finally, will not be able to measure himself either this time at Barça.

PSG confirmed that the player is still affected by his last injury and is definitively absent for the match.

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