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FC Barcelona vs PSG Champions League Match Preview 30-09-2014

The FC Barcelona Champions League resumes. The Parc des Princes in Paris on Tuesday hosts one of the most anticipated clashes of the season: PSG vs FC Barcelona. The meeting is the second round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2014/15 and is held in the French capital. The second leg, corresponding to the sixth and final day of Group F, will be played at the Camp Nou on 10 December. We recall that after defeating the first day, the club is leading the group with 3 points, Ajax and PSG have 1, and the Cypriot APOEL, 0 FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain have met on 5 occasions in European competition, in seasons 1994-95 in the 2012-13 and 1996-1997. The balance is tied between the two teams that have each added 1 win and 3 draws. As for the goals, they are also matched with 6 in favor and 6 against for French and Catalan.

After the grand start of the new season, Luis Enrique's men resume the Champions League to face big rival group theoretical F: Paris Saint-Germain. However, the French team arrives to meet with major casualties. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not fit to play against FC Barcelona on Tuesday. Problems heel dragging Swedish striker, which prevented him from playing the last two games of the French team, not allowed to play against his former team. In addition to the confirmed lower Ibra, PSG also drags the other major players like Thiago Silva and Ezequiel Lavezzi. In contrast, Luis Enrique will have almost all the Barca players available for the match.

Fourth in the league, 5 points behind

The PSG does not reach the match against FC Barcelona at its best. The French team is not working in the league, which has more draws than wins. It is true that Laurent Blanc's team still unbeaten, but it's also true that it costs horrors theoretically win games against teams with less. This Tuesday will test high exiegencia: FC Barcelona by Luis Enrique. And the beginning of the season has not been exactly as expected Blanc team that after tying field Toulouse joined 6 of the last 12 points and fourth in the French league, 5 points of intractable Olympique de Marcelo Bielsa.

The Paris team has noticed the injuries of some of his props, especially Thiago Silva, the man who commands the defense and he was injured in mid-August. David Luiz, newcomers, and Marquinhos, one of the major objectives of the club this summer, have tried to replace him, but for lack of adaptation or youth, the two have been unable to forget Silva, considered one of the best plants in the world , if not the best.