PSG - BAYERN: FOR ITS FIRST TEST, PARIS MUST ILLUMINATE ITS PARK

PSG - BAYERN: FOR ITS FIRST TEST, PARIS MUST ILLUMINATE ITS PARK

27 SEPTEMBER 2017 13:21

This is the first big shock of the season for the PSG which receives this Wednesday night (20:45), at the Parc des Princes, Bayern Munich. Against the men of Carlo Ancelotti, Paris must show that the club has passed a course this summer with the recruitment of Neymar and Mbappé.

Football Europe will look to the Parc des Princes on Wednesday for the shock of this second day of the Champions League. A test for PSG who will face tonight a club of the TOP 3 football in Europe, a test that will also be decisive for both clubs in the conquest of the first place of the group.

Marco Verratti: "We are like Bayern"

A dream cast at the Park with Neymar, Robben, Mbappé, Lewandowski, Cavani, Ribéry ... Bayern has nothing to prove tonight, it is a great European who presents himself on the road of the PSG! Opposite, Unai Emery's men will have to show that it is not just a team built with big checks and a real group is being born this season. The task is expected to be tough against a club 27 times on the highest step of the podium in the Bundesliga.

But in a pre-match press conference, Marco Verratti did not feel to measure the difference between Bayern and PSG, especially at the level of the prize list. "It's an important game, but you have to play. I think this is one of the first times I feel we are like Bayern. It's been a job we've been doing for five years, now I think we have credibility in the Champions League, "said the" Little Owl "at a press conference. A credibility which flew on 8 March 2017 at the Camp Nou with a "remontrada" which pushed the PSG to spend millions of euros during the summer transfer.

A historic moment for both clubs

The two teams have not crossed in the Champions League since the group stage of the 2000-2001 season. The PSG won the first leg at the Parc des Princes (1-0) before a 2-0 defeat at the return meeting. This season, the main stakes in the group stage, will be especially the first place to conquer. Even if this meeting will allow to analyze for the first time of the season the PSG against a major in Europe.

But a challenge is also for the PSG, beating Bayern Munich, fervent opponent of the club on the European scene in recent months at the level of financial fair play. Like Real Madrid and Barça, the German club has criticized PSG for not respecting financial fair play.

Tolisso and Ribery holders, Coman on the bench?

Bayern Munich will be able to rely on the three French team members for the match. According to the latest information Corentin Tolisso, Franck Ribéry will be in the Park this Wednesday while Kingsley Coman will have to wait on the bench before confronting his old team.

Two institutions confront each other, one wants to keep its place, the other wants to conquer the throne of the great ones of Europe. The match will be followed on Sport.fr and Canal + at 20:45.

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The likely composites for the encounter:

Paris SG: Areola - D. Alves, Marquinhos, T. Silva, Kurzawa - Verratti, T. Motta, Rabiot - Mbappé, Cavani, Neymar.

Bayern: Ulreich - Kimmich, Boateng, Hummels, Alaba - Tolisso, Vidal - Robben, Thiago, Ribery - Lewandowski.