For weeks, months, we only talked about her.
Because it haunted the days and nights of a whole people.
From supporters to their idols, all Parisians dragged it around for a long time and will remember it, too, forever.
Three weeks ago, after four years in the shade, the remountada, or rather its specter, came out of its box to come to hover above the reunion between PSG and Barcelona.
A return a priori fleeting as the concept seems this time to be a fantasy for both.
Four years ago, the thesis of the accident advanced at the end of the first leg was accompanied by a long media hype on the possibility of turning things around.
This time, no unifying energy has come to feed the daily life of Barça more monopolized by the election of its new president than by an improbable feat at the Parc des Princes.
Barely elected, Joan Laporta certainly split with an evocative war cry.
But his "direction Paris, see if we go back!"
Is more provocative than the bearer of mad hope.
"This time it's been a lot"
“As a general rule, no one here believes in a new comeback,” assures Manuel Oliveros, “the voice” of Cadena Cope, radio specialist of the Blaugrana club.
Barcelona lost by three goals (4-1), the return match will be played without an audience, away ... This time, that's a lot.
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The mission appears all the more impossible for the Catalans since their exploit (6-1) of March 8, 2017 at Camp Nou against Paris, they are especially used to undergo the remonstrances rather than initiating them.
The following year, despite his great success at Camp Nou (4-1), Barça, then undefeated leader in La Liga, was struck down (3-0) by Alessandro Florenzi's Roma in the quarter-finals.
Rebelote in 2019 after the legendary semi-finals against the Liverpool Reds (0-3, 4-0) who will win the event.
And although it is not to be placed in the remembrance radius, the drop received last season against Bayern Munich in the ¼final of the Lisbon Final 8 (8-2) did not really turn the tide.
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In reality, only the small "recovery" (3-0 ap) in front of Seville, last Wednesday, in the semi-final second leg of the Spanish Cup (0-2 defeat in the first leg) has awakened a hint of optimism.
"It gives hope to be able to compete, even to win this second leg and come out of the competition with their heads held high," said Manuel Oliveros.
But from there to create an atmosphere of remountada ... "
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In Paris, they are still six in the workforce to bear the imprint of March 8, 2017. But Marquinhos, Kurzawa, Verratti, Draxler, Di Maria and Kimpembe are now "outnumbered" for them too, the victory of the going seems to have chased away the bad memories.
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While the remountada word was still cringe internally before the trip to Camp Nou, the Parisians are now sweeping it away with the back of their hands.
"You get us drunk with the comeback," thus balanced Abdou Diallo without aggressiveness to the media this weekend after the success in Brest (3-0).
It was before, there are new players, it's totally different.
There is no stress about that.
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