“Many would like to see us dead,” Luis Enrique had announced, theatrically if not entirely incorrectly, after the narrowest squeak through the group stages in the autumn.
Midway though this last 16 tie Paris Saint-Germain remain not just alive in the Champions League but strong favourites to register their first knockout victory in three years. They were driven on at the Parc des Princes by the edge of Kylian Mbappé and the energy of a reconfigured team that is, for all its anti-galactico stylings, geared ever more to feeding the ball towards its incumbent Sun King.
Continue reading…“Many would like to see us dead,” Luis Enrique had announced, theatrically if not entirely incorrectly, after the narrowest squeak through the group stages in the autumn.Midway though this last 16 tie Paris Saint-Germain remain not just alive in the Champions League but strong favourites to register their first knockout victory in three years. They were driven on at the Parc des Princes by the edge of Kylian Mbappé and the energy of a reconfigured team that is, for all its anti-galactico stylings, geared ever more to feeding the ball towards its incumbent Sun King. Continue reading…
