It's like a winter final.
Paris SG-Real Madrid tomorrow at the Parco dei Principi, first leg match (return on March 9) of a double challenge that comes too soon (round of 16) could very well have been the challenge for the title, for the Champions that will be assigned on May 28 in St. Petersburg.
And that would be the 14th for the 'merengues' and the crowning of a dream, or rather of an obsession for the Parisians, the richest club in the world just back from another pharaonic summer transfer campaign.
It will also be the confrontation between a football genius like Kylian Mbappé, one of the many superstars of the Parisian team, and his very probable future, given that the 2018 world champion, in the release regime, would have already signed for the Madrid whites, a five-year from 30 million a year,
In the meantime, however, Real Mbappé wants to beat him, because he would not mind starting to win the Champions League with the club he is about to leave before trying to do so at Florentino Perez's court.
In this rendezvous of football show the great ex Sergio Ramos, again injured, will be missing, while the presence in the PSG of Neymar is uncertain, available to Pochettino but who has not played since the end of November due to a sprain in his left ankle, and in Karim Benzema's Real team, recovering from an injury to his left leg.
The impression is that in the end the Real striker will play from the beginning ("I'll do everything to be there"), while O Ney should start from the bench.