The Champions League quarter-final between FC Barcelona and PSG will suffer from a huge imbalance between the two teams.
On paper, by avoiding Manchester City, Real Madrid or even Bayern, PSG did a good job by inheriting FC Barcelona in the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League. On paper only… On closer inspection, the upcoming double confrontation looks like a trap for the Parisians, who will have to play the return to Montjuic among other celebrations…
The worst thing for PSG in the perspective of this shock is undoubtedly the big advantage in the calendar from which the Catalans will benefit. While Luis Enrique’s men will have to honor four meetings in ten days, the Blaugranas at the same time will only have two meetings to prepare. An inequity obviously linked to each person’s calendar.
A calendar that changes everything
At the end of the international break, Paris will play in Marseille on March 31 when Barça will have hosted Las Palmas the day before. Then nothing more until the first leg of C1 on Wednesday April 10 for Xavi’s troop while PSG will play two matches in the meantime: against Rennes in the semi-final of the Coupe de France on April 3 and against Clermont three days later.
Why such a gap? Because the Barcelonans only have the championship and the European Cup left to compete this season and the weekend of April 6 in Spain will be dedicated to the Copa del Rey final between Athletic Bilbao and Mallorca. “ This is the decisive moment of the season, and we must show on the pitch that we are ready to compete », Said the Catalan coach this Saturday at a press conference with a view to this major duel with Paris.
