City threatens Saint-Germain with the 2016 UEFA Champions League scenario
The upcoming confrontation tomorrow in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final between Man City of England and its French host Paris Saint-Germain, will be an early final between the two big teams.
City Saint-Germain threatens the 2016 scenario, and that season, City achieved its best result by reaching the semi-finals in 2016 when its career was interrupted by the competition giants Real Madrid.
The irony is that City's arrival in the semi-finals of that version was at the expense of its next opponent, Saint-Germain, by beating it in the quarter-finals 1-0 at Etihad Stadium after they tied the way in Paris 2-2.
And now that they are facing each other for the third time on a continental level (they faced in the group stage of the European Cup in the 2008-2009 season when they tied negatively), the opportunity will exist for them to reach the final and get the chance to win the desired title.
The confrontation will be the height of excitement between two attacking teams full of stars and led by experienced coaches who know each other well: Spaniard Pep Guardiola from the side of City, and Argentine Mauresbo Pochettino from the opposite side.
The two coaches renew the date after facing several years in the Premier League when Pochettino was coach of Tottenham, who eliminated City from the quarter-finals of the competition in 2019 by winning home 1-0 at home and losing 4-3 on the way to the final, where he lost to Liverpool (0 -2) .
Guardiola is greatly superior to his Argentine counterpart, by 10 wins against three defeats and five draws, including their nine confrontations (5 wins, 3 draws and one defeat) as coaches for the two arch neighbors Barcelona and Espanyol, who also defended their colors as players.
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