Paris. Have PSG ever been stronger?
Have Zlatan Ibrahimovic ever been better?
no, and no.
But raise a warning flag to underestimate Manchester City are no team PSG are walking home victory against.
Flowering trees, lavish sun, children playing, a sold-out arena. Paris and the Parc des Princes has climbed to the football party.
But coach Laurent Blanc took yesterday on the role of party-pooper. At the crowded press conference where he and Maxwell met the media, trying Blanc add a cooling wet blanket at the wildest expectations.
He does it right in. PSG is definitely the favorite, both in the evening at home, but also to to semi final location. But from there to believe that there will be a spring and stroll victory is far.
Manchester City and PSG are notoriously two newly rich clubs, although the City has a 136-year history that PSG can only bow infront of. Two newly rich teams, with major projects built with even more oil money. American Forbes ranked a year ago, in May 2015 the club as the fifth richest in Europe. PSG was then in twelfth place.
But the past year, and the season, it has been the Parisblå and not the blue that continues to win and build the stars and take more and more space on the football scene. Manchester City will as underdogs to the French capital.
One reason is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 35 years in the fall, but in a form that feels almost unreal. I’ve written it before: the little he has lost in speed and agility makes up Ibra with experience, football intelligence and a hunger that only seem to increase every victory, every new target Zlatan Ibrahimovic sets up for itself.
will be no match for Paris SG
that is why I am so pleased that he and PSG not even once were drawn against Barcelona in the quarterfinals. The lack of Champions League triumph is a black hole in Zlatan’s résumé. Sure, his career is incomparable even without that he will ever embrace that trophy. But rest assured, whatever he says, it is his big goal right now.
Eliaquim Mangala will tonight attempt to stop him on the road ahead of PSG fans who, after three years in which the team reached the end of fifteen minutes now requires more. The home team will be missing Marco Verratti difficult and the City, not least Yaya Toure.
We learn to see defensive game from the English sides and a PSG must be alert and not to make costly mistakes. It is precisely because Laurent Blanc calls for concentration and at all costs to tone down PSG’s favoritism. Manchester City may have had a tough season, but is not a morsel to macros that PSG will devour without problems. Especially away from home in Manchester next week.
The Paris Club with great power ambitions, the importance of a semi-final spot hardly be overestimated; it is high time for PSG to take another step, to live up to the aspirations and tail transfer.
Zlatan flirts with Britain and England with him does not make tonight’s meeting less tantalizing. It’s the honeymoon between Ibra and British reporters right now, after all those years when they wrote him down pretty hard.
sweet words from England – it deserves Zlatan
Would he really go Premier League Zlatan Ibrahimovic will get to meet a form of journalism and reporters who makes us Swedish, French and Italian to appear duvungar. But right now everything sweet words and mutual curiosity about the other party.
It deserves Zlatan. He has his faults, as we all. But the way he has come back on after last season’s period of injuries and setbacks, deserve respect.
That eternal hunger that never stillnar within him that drives him on, on. I have seen him in as many Champions League matches, so many clubs, countries, cities, stadiums. Goals, mistakes, disappointment, happiness.
When he was all the way this year? The odds are high, PSG no favorite.
But Zlatan is Zlatan.
The idea deny the miracle, but the heart believes.
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