Paris Saint-Germain, semi-finalists in final season’s UEFA Champions League, are at present on target for an early exit from this 12 months’s version.
PSG have only one win on this 12 months’s Champions League marketing campaign, which got here courtesy of Paulo Gazzaniga’s late error within the opener towards Girona. With simply 4 factors from their first 5 video games, Les Parisiens are at present twenty fifth within the revamped ‘League Section’ of the competitors, that means that, as issues stand, they’ll crash out of the Champions League on the first hurdle.
It places the reigning Ligue 1 champions below strain. With three video games remaining, they’re in determined want of factors. They’ve matches towards Crimson Bull Salzburg, Manchester Metropolis and VfB Stuttgart remaining. Forward of the primary of these matches, in Salzburg on Tuesday, Bradley Barcola (22) has sounded the alarm.
“It’s changing into tough now. We have to win this match and the following three,” stated the France worldwide within the pre-match press convention. “We aren’t placing any further strain on ourselves however we all know that it’s now or by no means,” he added. PSG should end within the prime 24 with the intention to progress to the following stage of the competitors.
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