Barcelona-PSG is a Champions League quarterfinal return match and is played Tuesday at 9pm: TV, streaming, likely lineups, predictions.
Everyone talked about Real-City but a week ago Barcelona and PSG were no less. The spectacle was also at home at the Parc des Princes, where the Blaugrana, who overall played better than the Parisians, won 3-2 at the end of a pyrotechnic match chock-full of twists and turns.
An evening in which practically everything happened. After ending the first half on the back foot, Luis Enrique’s team had managed to turn it around at the start of the second half, scoring two goals in the space of just 120 seconds, first with the former Dembélé and then with Vitinha. Barça, however, did not suffer the blow by reacting immediately and finding the 2-2 goal 10 minutes later, again with Brazilian Raphinha. And with 15 minutes left, Xavi’s men even made the breakthrough with Christensen, moving closer to their first semifinal since 2018-19. When Leo Messi was still on the field, to be clear. The Catalans certainly cannot be lulled by the result of the first leg, but there is no doubt that the 3-2 win in Paris represents an important mortgage on passage to the round, since PSG will not be able to settle for a draw. They need to win by at least 2 goals to avert what would be yet another flop at the continental level.
Recco Pedri and Hakimi from 1′
PSG, which over the weekend, by mutual agreement with Ligue 1, did not take the field – postponed the challenge with Lorient – to allow the Spanish coach to better prepare the return match.
Barcelona, second in the standings but with 8 points to make up on Real Madrid, on the other hand, played hard. And in the Andalusian away match with third-last Cadiz, it paid for the effort put in three days earlier, edging it out only thanks to a Joao Felix goal (0-1). For the blaugrana it was their sixth win in a row as well as yet another positive result since late January, coincidentally since Xavi announced that this will be his last year at the club’s helm. The Terrassa-born coach in Montjuic will be without two loyalists like Christensen and Sergi Roberto, both disqualified. On the other hand, he will find again Pedri from the 1′ minute, who in Paris just entered from the bench and provided a valuable assist to Raphinha. On the other side, Luis Enrique re-embraces Hakimi, who was disqualified a week ago, and ponders deploying Barcola in the offensive trident with Mbappé and Dembélé.
The Prediction
PSG called for a difficult “remuntada” against a Barcelona that showed in the first leg that it can put Mbappé and teammates in trouble. The qualification is still open. And as in the first leg match, anything can happen in light of the quality of the players who will take the field. But the feeling is that the Blaugrana, while suffering, will eventually avoid defeat in another match of at least three goals total.
Barcelona-PSG
probable lineups.
BARCELONA (4-3-3): ter Stegen; Koundé, Ronald Araújo, Cubarsí, João Cancelo; de Jong, Gündoğan, Pedri; Yamal, Lewandowski, Raphinha.
PSG (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Hernández, Nuno Mendes; Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz; Dembélé, Mbappé, Barcola.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-2
