LUIS FERNANDEZ, FORMER PSG, HAS A CLEAR PLAN
Barça's 'secret' to stopping Mbappe in the Champions League revealed
Published:4/04/2024 - 14:25h
Updated:4/04/2024 - 14:25h
Barça will have to look for their place in the semi-finals of the Champions League surely against the most difficult striker to stop right now in the world, so a former PSG player is clear about the way in which the Catalans should face him
Luis Fernández, ex technician of Paris Saint-Germain, attained to be champion of Tie it 1 with the team Frenchman a lot before they appeared the million Catar. The míster, that also had short stages in Athletic and Espanyol, raised the title in 1995, by what almost 30 years afterwards keeps on being a voice authorised to analyse the present of the Parisians, especially in a moment so key of the season with sound the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Like this it has done it in an interview with 'Sportive World', where besides took out breast when having experience in what it is to win him to the Barça an eliminatory of quarter-finals of Champions. It did it the season 1994-95 in front of the Barça of Cruyff, empatando 1-1 in the Camp Nou and winning 2-1 in the Park of the Princes, that same course in which it would finish consecrating in the championship suspender belt of France.
The Barça will need a big system of midfield and defence
As in that moment, sees now an eliminatory couple, but thinks that the PSG is "a bit by on", analysed. Besides, Fernández left clear that still no descarta that Kylian Mbappé was still in Paris the next season and, regarding the hour to try brake him, recommends him to the Barça a collective system and not falling in individual labelings, still if has to Ronald Araújo for this. "It is difficult to think in this subject because Kylian is a player that has this form to stroll , to go", commented with regard to how could detain him on the field.
There, it commented that for both teams thinks that the best will be a collective work to try detain to the contrary attackers. "For me, it is a community and for example, the community that see today in the PSG loves me. Has intensity. The two defences will have to have a lot of care to the hour to take out the balloon", explained Luis Fernández, adding besides that "go to have to take out a party of high level" in relation to the mediocampistas. "They are those that go to have to give well to eat to Dembélé, Kolo or Mbappé and the ones of the Barça go to have to do the same that did Xavi, Busquets and Iniesta", commented.
A lot of respect for Xavi in Paris
On the work of Xavi in the Barça, the French has been very clear when standing out that "to Xavi has to him respect. It has been champion of the League. And it has gone back to the club in a moment of economic difficulty, without being able to have the reinforcements that he had wanted to have", remembered. "With what had or have given him, has done it very well. I do not want that it go Xavi. I would say him: 'Xavi, do not go you, remain you, you are the Barça'. Have to leave him calm and that say him that it has to classify for the Champions and, once recovered the economic appearance, will see", resolved the also analyst in the French television.