This Wednesday, the FC Barcelona confronts to one of the biggest challenges that will cross during the season, since it has to play in front of the Paris Saint-Germain by the turn of the eighth of final of the Champions League. Of equal form, the ones of Ronald Koeman have the task to trace back the result of 1-4 that the ones of the French capital achieved in the gone.

The Catalans will travel to Paris with the presence of the recently elect president Joan Laporta, the one who will be accompanying to the plantel, in pro to encourage them and chat with Koeman on the needs of the team. However, although the presence of the mandator and the big performance that the team showed the past week can be two factors that give his fruits, the eliminatory keeps on being extremely complicated.

By his part, the PSG arrives to the meeting with the need of not starring another shameful traced back, as the one who the Barcelona achieved in the 2017, when it won to the Parisians by 6-1 in the turn, after losing 4-0 in the gone. The drop of Neymar plays against of the ones of Pochettino, but the recovery of Gave María is a relief for the same.

Possible alignments of the PSG-FC Barcelona

  • PSG: Navas; Kehrer, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Kurzawa; Gueye, Paredes, Verratti; Mbappé, Icardi and Di María.
  • FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Dest, Mingueza, Umtiti, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Busquets, De Jong, Pedri; Dembélé and Messi.

Ter Stegen

The cancerbero German comes to star a spectacular week, after detaining a penalti key in front of the Seville, in the turn of the semifinal of the Glass of Rey and play a fundamental role in the crash in front of the Osasuna, by LaLiga. His have to will be the one to keep the big level that comes showing split after party, in front of a very upper rival to his previous opponents.

Dest, Mingueza, Umtiti, Lenglet, Alba

The defenders that Ronald Koeman has situated in the alignment of the Barcelona recently, surely will be those that play in front of the PSG, doing use of the variant 3-5-2 that the Dutch strategist has used lately. The injuries of Hammered and Araújo force to play with the French couple of left-handed head offices, conformed by Lenglet and Umtiti.

Incidentally, Dest and Alba will be the attendants to do mutate the 3-5-2 to a 5-3-2 or to a 4-3-3, depending on what demand the moment of the party. The polivalencia of Mingueza will be again fundamental to cover the right-handed side of the retaguardia culé, whereas the young carrilero American manages in roles more offensive.

Pedri, Busquets and Of Jong

Commitment, wear, creativity and dynamism are the main characteristics of the trident title that Koeman comes using for the midfield of the Barcelona. The projections of Pedri and of Of Jong will be fundamental to accompany to the attackers of the team, but his physical deployment also will be of great importance to help to Busquets to recover the balloon.

Of equal form, the three midfield players will support in Dest and Alba when these funjan the function of carrileros, in pro to ensure the numerical superiority by the bands and like this generate more danger in attack. Incidentally, this quintet conformed circunstancialmente in the central axis of the diagram of Koeman will have to nourish of balloons to the pair of forwards, but also replegarse to cover spaces.

Dembélé And Messi

The explosividad of Dembélé will combine with the creativity of Messi to look for the necessary spaces to generate danger. Of equal form, The projection of Alba will be fundamental to look for more dynamism in the offensive actions of the Barcelona, as it could observe the past weekend, in front of the Osasuna.

Braithwaite And Griezmann will await in the banking of acting and will be able to ingresar to freshen the strategy of Koeman. Both were fundamental the past week, in the crash in front of the Seville, because of the goal that marked the Danish and to the assistance that gave the French, fundamental actions for the classification of the Barcelona to the final of the Glass of Rey.