He psg missed just one game in the entire 2022-2023 season Champions League, but this is enough to put him in a very delicate position. The French team visits the Bayern Munich with the need to overcome the series of 16, after having been defeated at home with 1-0. With a must win to avoid another failure in the continental competition.
Inside twelfth season owned by the Qatar Sports Investments group, PSG is close to winning their ninth Ligue 1 title in 12 yearsalready eight points ahead of Olympique de Marseille and just 12 games ahead.
At the same time, PSG could stay eliminated from the Champions League at the round of 16 for the fourth time in the last six years and from the group of four best teams for the tenth time in the club leg in Qatar.
The hundreds of millions of euros were spent for PSG they arrived aiming to conquer not only France, a league in which PSG had only been champions in 1986 and 1994 before the change of owners, but far from the best in Europe.
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The goal is to conquer Europe. his purchases Neymar for 222 million euros, Kylian Mbappe for 180 million euros (and the subsequent multi-million dollar renovation) and the signing of Lionel Messi from PSG was to top it all offto dominate outside its borders.
However, last season saw Real Madrid make a spectacular comeback in the round of 16, and now Failure to beat Benfica in the group stage left the French side exposed to face a group winner: that was Bayern, who already won 1-0 in Paris and will try to defend their lead in Germany.
So far, only one run has managed to overtake PSG in the Champions League in its entire history in the competition: the 2020 round of 16 when, after losing 2-1 in Germany to Erling Haaland’s Borussia Dortmund, PSG won 2-0 in Paris, calmly, with two first-half goals.
PSG’s challenge is against its own history but also against that of French footballwhich he has sanctified a European champion club in its history (Marseille Olympics in 1993) and barely had seven finalists in almost 70 years (Two for Reims, two for Marseille counting their title, one for St Etienne, one for PSG and one for Monaco).
Why would defeat to Bayern Munich be a blow to PSG’s cause?
And we can’t wait, the blow of a possible negative result against Bayern Munich could be huge. You can wear the work of Luis Campos and Christophe Galtierit started just a few months ago, like the last few years He has already released Unai Emery, Thomas Tuchel and Mauricio Pochettino after short spellssuccessful managers outside of PSG but who failed to win in Paris.
Defeat could also end the Neymar-Messi-Bape trident: The Brazilian is increasingly affected by injuries, such as the recent right ankle that ended his season, Messi has yet to renew his contract for next season and Mbappé’s relationship expires in mid-2025, but against Another early defeat would not be a surprise if the Frenchman once again shows his desire to look for other air.
AND “sell” the work at any new figure Enticing her to come to Paris to replace some of those cracks will be more complicated after another European failure.
Not a favourite, with just a 22.2% chance of being ranked according to the bookmakers. PSG have a lot to play for this Wednesday, although there is still a long way to go before the final in Istanbul. He will either write one of his most epic pages or suffer another stab to the heart.
