Champions League: Brest prevents PSG

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By: Manu Tournoux

Fifteen years after the last Franco-French confrontation in the Champions League, which ended at the time by a qualification of OL in the semi-final at the expense of Bordeaux (3-2 cumulative score), Brest and Paris go Remember the thread. If PSG had a happy hand by avoiding facing Real Madrid or Manchester City, the same can be said of Bretons, qualified for the first time in their history in the European Cup this season, and which would most certainly have preferred to face a foreign club, in this case Benfica.

At the microphone of Canal+ After the draw, the Breton sports director, Grégory Lorenzi, gave his gaze on this almost usual confrontation, since Brest will face Paris three times in 19 days, and this, tomorrow (5:00 p.m.) with the reception of the Ile -de -France residents Ligue 1: “Disappointed to face PSG? No, we are very happy to be qualified for the dams and it is that the pleasure of being there because we must emphasize that at the start, we were the little thumbsaid the Brest leader. It is a feat to be there today. After, necessarily, PSG, we know them. It's a bit of the magic of Europe to play against a foreign team so we might have preferred to play Benfica, but we cannot say that it is not a good draw, because we have Chance to continue this adventure and it is only positive. There will be 2 French clubs for the 8th and that's good for the French championship.»»

Three confrontations against Paris in 19 days

The advantage of facing Paris – and Lorenzi recalled it – is that the Brestois know their opponent on the tips of the nails. And even if the last confrontations between the two clubs have never shot to the advantage of the Finistériens (11 victories from Paris and 1 draw since the Brest ascent in L1 in 2019), the 41 -year -old leader relies on the Effervescence of the competition to see his players transcend himself, as in the league phase: “Paris ? We are used to playing them, we play them tomorrow in the league and again in 10 days. It is true that it is a bit a lot, but we will play without pressure, we are not favorite, we will still be the little thumb, and from the start, we have the chance to do exceptional things. We will play our luck thoroughly, without ulterior motive, and we will do our best“, He added.

“”This competition is special when we see how our players transcend themselves unconsciously by playing it, it will be the same in dams I think, and we will not change anything in our software. On the contrary, we will take the matches one after the other, it will be up to us to create the supplement of soul. It is a round-trip confrontation and we are lucky to be able to know them, analyze them, unlike a team like Benfica on whom we may have less information. Inevitably a little disappointed not to know a new European city, because the magic of the European Cup is also to confront another culture of football, other atmospheres … But you have to accept the draw and it will be It's up to us to put ourselves in competition.Paris is warned.

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