Champions League 2024-25

Who will win?


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Kul_z

Senior Member
PSG whole plan would be the 9 dropping deep with a ball over the top to the space created, if followed to Barcola/Doue.

Kvara is there to create ball to feet when the defence is back or countering against numbers.

The first option certainly works without Dembele, but they have spent the whole season working the system with him there. No way Doue or Barcola are as effective in same role. But they can get success as they are top players.

There's only one other guy who could do it infact. His name is Ferran Torres. Somebody give LE a call.
Not talking about game plan, more of instinct and nature of things happening on field. If doue starts to naturally drop centrally because
1. Kounde shut him down
2. Balde shut him down(raphinha too)
It might cause havoc in our ranks. Guy is too talented and unpredictable, and not recognized still as the major treat.
it could be im dead wrong, but he is the type of player that barca as a team always suffered from
 

Porque

Senior Member
Not talking about game plan, more of instinct and nature of things happening on field. If doue starts to naturally drop centrally because
1. Kounde shut him down
2. Balde shut him down(raphinha too)
It might cause havoc in our ranks. Guy is too talented and unpredictable, and not recognized still as the major treat.
it could be im dead wrong, but he is the type of player that barca as a team always suffered from

PSG have a high potential chance of giving us havoc. For sure.

We both haven't played an attack this season as good as each other's.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Only good thing I would say a about our defense when coming up against PSG, is that the line tends to be beaten by runners from deep, and not the opposition's attacking line, and while I like PSG midfield, they don't really do that much.

So we should be able to play the offside trap pretty effectively against their front 3.

The counter to that though, is dembele plays as a false 9, so he will almost never be off side and if they play the ball through, 0% chance any of our defenders are catching him.

That and Tek being very slow off the line, is a worry.
 

Temptation

Well-known member
Only good thing I would say a about our defense when coming up against PSG, is that the line tends to be beaten by runners from deep, and not the opposition's attacking line, and while I like PSG midfield, they don't really do that much.

So we should be able to play the offside trap pretty effectively against their front 3.

The counter to that though, is dembele plays as a false 9, so he will almost never be off side and if they play the ball through, 0% chance any of our defenders are catching him.

That and Tek being very slow off the line, is a worry.
Yamal vs Nuno will be an important battle. He completely shut down Salah. Yamal is a better dribbler though so it should be a good contest. Raphinha and Ferran need to turn up.

Paris CBs aren't that great so Ferran can definitely exploit that with his intelligent movement and get some joy.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Yamal vs Nuno will be an important battle. He completely shut down Salah. Yamal is a better dribbler though so it should be a good contest. Raphinha and Ferran need to turn up.

Paris CBs aren't that great so Ferran can definitely exploit that with his intelligent movement and get some joy.

He did yamal in the first leg last season, but yamal had him in the 2nd, before having to come off

3rd time will be the tie breaker
 

Kul_z

Senior Member
Yamal vs Nuno will be an important battle. He completely shut down Salah. Yamal is a better dribbler though so it should be a good contest. Raphinha and Ferran need to turn up.

Paris CBs aren't that great so Ferran can definitely exploit that with his intelligent movement and get some joy.
If that happens, your boy lewa would be upfront not ferran.
 

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