"Gunpowder"!
This is how the Catalan daily Mundo Deportivo presents the future opponent of FC Barcelona in the round of 16 of the Champions League, on February 16 (going to Camp Nou) and March 10, 2021. For the pro-Barça newspaper, the Parisian attack, from Neymar to Mbappé via Kean, Icardi or Di Maria, is the main danger for a Blaugrana defense handicapped by the absence of Gerard Pique (knee).
Mundo Deportivo does not stop there and evokes the “talisman” Keylor Navas, “a great goalkeeper who won three Champions League” with the sworn enemy of Real Madrid.
The PSG workforce is also highlighted by Guillermo Amor, director of institutional relations, on the official Barça website: “We know them well, they have exceptional players with a lot of quality.
They are very strong individually.
They usually dominate their championship.
They really want to win this Champions League.
They didn't go far last year.
They will want to go to the end this year.
They have the manpower to do it ”.
So much for the compliments.
"Will Messi go to PSG or will Neymar come back to Barça?"
The Catalan press then stops on the "morbo" (
a difficult term to translate, which defines a kind of unhealthy curiosity
): the reunion Neymar-Messi.
"They have not seen each other on the field since the departure of the Brazilian who fled to Paris in 2017 to try to be number one, far from Leo," writes Mundo Deportivo.
A match which "could decide the future of the two players", according to the daily Sport.
"Will Messi go to PSG or will Neymar come back to Barça?"
Asks local journalist Lluis Mascaro.
More generally, nobody seems happy with the PSG draw in Catalonia: "It is a very strong rival for the current Barça", launch the Spanish newspapers.
They also recall the spirit of "revenge" which must trot in Parisian heads.
The first leg at Camp Nou, on February 16, will take place a little less than four years after the "remount": Barcelona's Neymar knocked down the Parisians 6-1 after losing 4-0 at the Parc des Princes.
Barça was also quick to publish the summary of this match on its social networks.
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