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RAFA YUSTE ANALYSED THE QUARTER-FINAL DRAW

Official Statement! Barça make it clear that there is a great squad and there is no fear of PSG

Published:15/03/2024 - 14:08h

Updated:15/03/2024 - 18:14h

FC Barcelona will face Luis Enrique and Kylian Mbappé's PSG in the quarter-finals, but almost immediately the club wanted to show their confidence in the quality of the squad and their confidence in it

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Few minutes after knowing the draw of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, where the FC Barcelona will confront to Paris Saint-Germain, andl sportive vice-president of the Barcelona entity, Rafa Yuste, has valued the result. The director culé, present in Nyon, Switzerland, for the ceremony, has wanted to be conclusive when ensuring that the duels against the Parisian group will be "two very beautiful parties", puntualizó.

"Our mentality is to try happen to semifinals", ensured Yuste, the one who besides was asked after the press on his opinion on the star of the French team, Kylian Mbappé. In front of this, the leader has put in value to the Barcelona players, answering that "we have to Lamine", soltó. However, also it has asked respect for the PSG when explaining that "it is necessary to respect to all the rivals, have to have a lot of prudence", analysed.

The advantage of the field for the Barça and to avoid to three big favourites

With the turn of the quarter-finals in Montjuïc as well as in some possible semifinals, Yuste has asked the push of the fans to achieve the aims. "We have to deliver us in body and soul and that the fans help us", has said. It fits to remember that in the turn of the eighth Montjuïc presented the best entrance of the season, and allowed to a large extent that the team culé went out to presionar to the Naples from the first second.

Yuste Also was asked after the others clashes and if it has felt relieved after seeing the eliminatory Real Madrid-Manchester City, Yuste has remarked that "we already will have a Classical in brief", whereas it also has explained that neither Barça neither City wanted to see the faces "by a moving subject", ensured. Besides, in the rival bench there will be a very known technician: Luis Enrique. The Asturian will confront to the Barça after his step does some years by the Barcelona and the vice-president has wanted to remember it, aiming that "have a trainer to the that know very well in the house", sentenced.

An announcement that reaffirms even more the value of the Masia

Finally, Yuste also has valued the announcement of Pau Cubarsí with the absolute Spanish selection, ensuring that "it gladdens a lot", and has put to the Farm like an example. "We are projecting talents of 17 and 18 years in the world", explained. Besides, also it has wanted to praise the paper of Xavi Hernández, José Ramón Alexanco and Joan Soler, among others, for having made possible this explosion of Cubarsí: "Without his courage would not have had these possibilities", resolved the sportive vice-president of the entity.

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