For Emmanuel Petit, it is perhaps this year that PSG will shine in the Champions League. And yet he believes that the team is the weakest in the QSI era.
This year again, Paris Saint-Germain will try to achieve its ultimate goal: winning the first Champions League in its history. The road has so far been particularly bumpy for Luis Enrique’s men, who qualified extremely narrowly for the round of 16. Second in their group, they were lucky in the draw by inheriting Real Sociedad. Weighed down by injuries, the Catalan club was beaten in the first leg at the Parc des Princes (2-0) and should have a hard time preventing Paris from advancing to the quarter-finals. In the meantime, observers are talking about the case of PSG. Some, however, have a positive feeling about the future of events.
This is for example the case of Emmanuel Petit who was rather confident about the future. But his impression is ambivalent. “ Since the Qataris arrived, I believe that this is the weakest team that Paris Saint-Germain has presented on the European scene. This is perhaps, strangely, the year where he could go the furthest. » And the consultant of RMC to clarify why he thinks that Paris has a good card to play this season. “ You have big European teams who are in decline this year too. I’m talking about Bayern, for example. »
Favorable fate?
And the 1998 world and 2000 European champion returns to this lucky star which for the moment seems to shine above PSG in C1. “ Look how complicated the group stage was and they got through it miraculously. And behind, they hit the weakest team with Copenhagen from the hat of the eighth, while they were focused on finishing first to avoid precisely a big one. Finally they are second and they are against the weakest teams. So somewhere, you say to yourself that perhaps destiny is working in their favor. »
While Kylian Mbappé will leave at the end of the season, will Paris come close to realizing its wildest dream? There is therefore a possibility, but Emmanuel Petit is not satisfied with the football offered by PSG. “ It’s a game that bores me, which doesn’t correspond to what modern football offers. (…) I had a lot more emotions last year than this year. » It is up to the Parisian players to offer him a much bigger one in a few weeks.
