PSG will explore the 2020-2021 edition of the Champions League as we visit its past, hoping not to pay tribute to it, or not in full.
With Manchester United and Leipzig inherited this Thursday, the capital club finds two clubs that have either hoisted it to paradise or made it plunge into darkness, all in a big year.
There will also be the Turkish champion, Basaksehir Istanbul, a club even younger than PSG, but clearly a three-way match is emerging to reach the stage of the round of 16.
Without suspense, PSG remains the huge favorite of this trio.
He remains on the top paper at the German club and still ahead of the Mancuniens.
The identity of the one who should accompany her is still unclear, referring to the greatest uncertainty of this hen H.
But clearly, the great history of the group is contained in the large gap it offers.
With Manchester United, PSG experienced a humiliation, for some, worse than the comeback with an elimination in March 2019 against the B or C team of the Red Devils.
Everything was fine after the first leg won 2-0 before in the second leg Buffon forgets his hands, Kehrer his head and then Kimpembe should have forgotten his arms when defending in the twilight of the match.
An elimination that shook PSG, weakened Tuchel and it was not until the Final 8 in Lisbon for the German coach to regain credit.
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In Portugal, it is precisely by outclassing Leipzig (3-0) that his team reached for the first time in its history the final of the Champions League, then crashing into the wall of Munich reality.
It is a hen to revive good and bad memories but it will mainly be a warm-up lap before the cleaver matches at the changeover of 2021.
Valbuena back in Marseille, Mendy in Rennes
The concept of the reunion extends to other French clubs and even to the whole of this draw as Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will look at each other again, two years after the Portuguese left the Spanish league for Italy.
Marseille, for its part, returns to the queen event in a group where the two favorites are called Porto, the former club of André Villas-Boas, the Marseille coach, and Manchester City.
But it is the fourth guest who brings back memories: Mathieu Valbuena's Olympiakos who did not only have good times at the Vélodrome.
His stay in Lyon had led, in September 2015, to an evening of shame, with unbearable treatment towards him.
But since he has also marked the club, this time around he should be well received unless resentment escorts stupidity as well.
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Finally, Rennes, for its first participation in the Champions League, can aim for third place, behind Sevilla FC and Chelsea;
in front of Krasnodar.
Logic wants it but by forcing its destiny, Julien Stephan's team can create a surprise, perhaps at the expense of Chelsea, a team currently irregular.
The Bretons will have to deceive Edouard Mendy, their goalkeeper ceded to the Blues this summer against 25 million euros.
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