HERE IS WHY BARCELONA will DESTROY PSG 😱
Barcelona will destroy Paris Saint-Germain - just like we just showed you. Don't believe it? You will see it yourself very soon!
Yes, Barça are not considered a favorite in the battle with the Parisians, and their overall chances of winning the Champions League are even lower than Borussia Dortmund's...
But these odds will skyrocket as soon as Xavi's team knocks PSG out of the tournament, and thus the Blaugrana will be the #2 favorite in the draw. Barcelona should enjoy their current position - for the first time since 2020, the team has reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, where they are considered an underdog that no one is betting on. This is a definite advantage for a team that has played its most disappointing matches under Xavi with external pressure. If this Barça team with 16-year-old Yamal and 17-year-old Cubarsi is knocked out by Paris Saint-Germain with Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele, it will be a sad but NOT CATASTROPHIC outcome! This team is free from pressure and sky-high expectations, and Xavi was right when he said that the team will be liberated after he announced his departure - the coach gave everyone a second chance in what seemed to be a completely failed season.
This moment with the announcement of his departure became a starting point for everyone - Xavi, knowing that he had a few months left to work, got a fresh breath - the coach surprises again with his tactical decisions and finds the keys to beat the opponents in every match. The team reset - they began to train and play more intensively, and in their interviews, all the players repeat as one that they "will fight for Xavi to the death", and some of them directly say that they want Xavi to change his mind and stay in charge of the team
So, the psychological condition is Barcelona's advantage against Paris Saint-Germain, for whom elimination from the Champions League will be considered a disaster, and even more so against the backdrop of Kylian Mbappe's 99% leaving for Real Madrid next summer.
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Xavi knows how to calm his team down and motivate them for important matches, and after the victory over Napoli, many noted how aggressively the Barca coach behaved at the press conference:
"I told the players to stay calm, nobody was going to die today. The press were saying we were the buffoons in the Champions League, unfair criticism from journalists. Was that necessary? Are we still the buffoons?"
This was a direct appeal to El Pais journalist Ramon Besa, who called Barca "the buffoon of Europe" after their defeat to Shakhtar in the UCL group stage.
This case shows several important things. Firstly, Xavi is a locker room leader and always takes full responsibility liberating his players. Secondly, Xavi shows that he can motivate the team perfectly through the use of criticism, a technique that Pep Guardiola and especially Jose Mourinho were famous for. And thirdly, Xavi protects the club and the team, believing that Barca are attacked very often and for any reason - he is a totally club's man and this is very much appreciated by both players and management. Everyone is ready to fight for this kind of coach!
At the same time, the atmosphere at PSG is not the best. First of all, because of... Kylian Mbappe! Yes, he is still the most lethal weapon of the Paris club, but he is also the biggest problem! The way Kylian behaved during the halftime of the match against Monaco after being replaced is a display of disrespect for the club where you are also the captain... After the leak of information about the forward's departure in the summer, Paris head coach Luis Enrique began to leave Kylian on the bench more often - either not in the starting lineup, or replacing him after the break, or in the second half Despite beating Sociedad in the round of last 16, where Mbappe scored 3 of the team's 4 goals, PSG's performance wasn't convincing enough to be considered Champions League favorites, and the constant tension with Kylian creates a nervous atmosphere in the locker room, when it feels like Mbappe is BIGGER THAN CLUB and can do what he wants and how he wants. Quite a toxic atmosphere, isn't it?
Paris Saint-Germain despise and hate Barcelona. This is manifested in the following moments, which were reported by the popular news account and website Barca Universal:
A conversation during a PSG training session back in August 2023:
- Kylian Mbappé to Ousmane Dembélé during PSG training: "You're coming from Barça, why aren't you singing?"
- Lucas Hernandez then replies: "How can that sh*t team teach you how to sing?".
And so in many ways. However, the truth is that even now the first team is led by Luis Enrique - a man from the Barcelona system. Paris Saint-Germain are always looking to buy out Barca's best players: it happened with Neymar, Messi, and now Ousmane Dembele.
16 мар 2024
