Tomorrow will be a big day for Paris Saint-Germain. Luis Enrique’s troops will face Borussia Dortmund on the 6th and final day of Group C of the Champions League. On the lawn of the Signal Iduna Park stadium, the Parisians will play for their survival in the competition. A high-pressure match that the Gijon native tactician is preparing with relative positivity: “I always try to see the glass half full. The positive side is that in this last match, we still have our destiny in our hands. If you start looking at the negative, you’re bound to have problems. We are capable of winning tomorrow. Now we have to show it on the pitch. The most important thing is to know what our strengths are, to follow the plan in the best possible way without getting caught up in the pressure. If you don’t want pressure, you shouldn’t sign for a big club as a player or coach. I don’t have a problem with pressure. I want to enjoy this great match”declared Spanish coach Luis Enrique at a press conference this Tuesday.
“The logic in the group of death is that the differences have been small in each match. We could have won every match or we could have lost every match. It was not difficult to guess that we would still be in this position on the last day. Dortmund are qualified but not assured of their place and we can also do that. It depends on us. The other two teams don’t have their destiny in their hands like us. We had problems, especially away from home, but we are not going to change our way of playing and our desire to win. We have to treat this match as a final. We will face a good Dortmund team which is already qualified and that will be difficult.then explained at length the Spanish coach, who seemed somewhat annoyed by the questions about his future in the event of elimination on Wednesday.
The shadow of elimination looms!
Shortly before the Parisian coach, it was the Brazilian captain, Marquinhos, who presented himself to the journalists already present in Germany this Tuesday. Returning from injury, the central defender is aware of the importance of this meeting with a thousand challenges. Present at the club for almost 10 years, the Brazilian has experienced all the past traumas in this competition: “There is a lot of excitement, but the negative pressure, we have to use it to motivate ourselves. This is what great players and great teams must do. We have our destiny in our hands. This is the kind of match and moment that we, the great players, want to experience in our careers. It’s a match that can launch us into this European season.”, said the 29-year-old who returned to the field last weekend against FC Nantes. A match in which Marquinhos played 61 full and solid minutes. To qualify, the Parisians need a victory or a draw combined with a lack of success for Newcastle against AC Milan. If Paris loses, we will have to hope for a draw between the Rossoneri and the Magpies.
From the draw last August, the Capital club knew that the Champions League group was going to be open and tough with Newcastle, Dortmund and AC Milan. But the Seleção defender does not want to prioritize the different competitions in which PSG is engaged. For Marquinhos, tomorrow’s meeting must be prepared with the same seriousness and professionalism as all the other matches played: “The discourse has changed, because there is also a lot of desire in the championship. There were a lot of demands. For us, it’s important to get everything, it’s not to neglect the Champions League. We prepare all the matches in the best way. You shouldn’t let a trophy pass you by. You think about the negative side, I think about the positive side. If we have a great match, with our supporters who will be there, it can launch us and give us a lot of confidence., Marquinhos then concluded. In any case, the motivation is there, while Paris Saint-Germain could be returned to the Europa League for the first time since the takeover of the club by QSI in 2011.
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