Canal+ consultant Habib Beye believes that PSG will have a lot to do to get out of their Champions League group.
Since this Thursday, PSG have known their opponents for the next C1 season. Unlike past years, the team from the French capital will not have it easy. The fate reserved him three rather tough teams, in this case Newcastle, Milan and Dortmund.
Paris in danger outside?
So, will the Ile-de-France residents succeed in holding their rank against these formations? Logic suggests yes, but some are not so sure. For example, Habib Beye, consultant for Canal+, fears snags outside.
“PSG must be above these 3 teams. But what seems to me to be in difficulty is that PSG, in its recent history in C1, has always been destabilized by big atmospheres, he confided on the encrypted channel shortly after the draw took place. When they go to Benfica they are in trouble because the emotional context is very important. And there, they will go to three stadiums where it will be loaded with pressure. Will they be able to resist this? Normally they should be.
The Franco-Senegalese coach knows the atmosphere at Saint-James Park very well since he played there as a player. He is therefore well placed to talk about what awaits Paris in terms of adversity. “When you go to Newcastle, even if on paper it’s not a team that should compete with PSG, you go to a stadium where there are 52,000 people. And when you go to Borussia, even if they have lost Jude Bellingham, and you find yourself facing the yellow wall, you have a pressure that is difficult to bear. And AC Milan, it remains a semi-finalist of the last C1. All these elements mean that PSG will be in a pool which will necessarily be difficult ”.
