The suspense ended on Friday noon, at UEFA headquarters in Nyon. Brest fell in play -offs from the Champions League, PSG inherited from Liverpool during the draw for the knockout stages. A very large piece for the club of the capital which, after a slow league phase, had no other option anyway than to come across a high -quality opponent, the second potential opponent of the red and blue being the FC Barcelona.
Brilliant for several weeks, Luis Enrique players will try to keep this beautiful dynamic until the first leg, which will take place on Tuesday 4 or Wednesday March 5. An appointment that they will not, however, approach in the same freshness conditions as the English. By then, Parisians will actually play three games, the last three or four days before their shock against the LFC, when the Reds only play two.
PSG will be much less fresh than Liverpool
Before receiving the teammates from Mohamed Salah, PSG will travel to Lyon on Sunday, February 23 (23e Ligue 1 day) and in Saint-Brieuc on Wednesday, February 26 (quarter-finals of the French Cup), then will welcome Lille at the Parc des Princes on Saturday 1er March (24e Ligue 1 day). Liverpool, for its part, will have only two first league games to negotiate, against Manchester City (February 23) and against Newcastle (February 26).
The reason is simple: across the Channel, the previous weekend the C1 will be devoted to the knockout stages of the FA Cup. A competition that Arne Slot's men left in the previous round against Plymouth (0-1), a modest penultimate of Championship, the English second division. A misstep which, ultimately, could well take advantage of them since they will therefore have a week to prepare their first round against Paris Saint-Germain.
