Paris Saint -Germain -coach Luis Enrique will pick Pep Guardiola's brain while he turns out to be a plan to beat Liverpool -but it is already clear that his players do not have an inferiority complex about encountering the Runaway Premier League leaders in the Champions League.
Enrique has a friendship with Guardiola who describes the Manchester City manager as 'eternal'. Guardiola added: “My family loves his family – and I think they love us.”
The former teammates of Barcelona have always been there to lean on each other and after they had a taste of what Arne Slot brought to Anfield when Liverpool went to Etihad last weekend to win with some ease, their last conversations will undoubtedly include how Jeremy Doku was still able to give Trent Alexander-Arnold afternoon.
Enrique has to decide whether he signed the speed of flying Frenchman Ousmane Dembele or the Georgian deception of new £ 60 million that Khvicha Kvaratskhelia signed to expose the right flank of the Reds. But having the city of Guardiola with 4-2 in the competition phase of the Champions League, the sounds that come from the team that strives to become Ligue 1's very first invincibles, have absolutely no fears to meet the best that England currently has to offer.
Kylian Mbappe may have gone to Real Madrid to realize his dream of European rule, but PSG's Portuguese midfielder Vitinha warned: “The power of our team is the collective. We have had many stars in the past, but have not succeeded in winning the Champions League.
“With this team we think we can go far – even that we can go completely. We did not have the results we wanted in the group stage, but I have absolutely no doubt that nobody wants to come across PSG.
“I like to be in a team where we all feel the same. You can see that on the field, where we are well coordinated in the movements, the efforts and the dynamics. If we play like that, the results go well. “
The arrival of Kvaratskhelia from Napoli during the transfer window has given Enrique a different attacking dimension. PSG hit Brest 10-0 aggregated to book their place in the last 16 of the Champions League. And their coach does not believe that his team will go to the Parc des Princes's first stage as underdogs on Wednesday evening.
Enrique said: “It will be a 50-50 competition. It will be two games between two fairly equal teams. I am happy with the draw. Both teams are of a very high level and it will be very exciting.
“During the group stage we both played against high -level teams such as Manchester City and Real Madrid in games that could easily have been in the final. If you look at the profiles of us and Liverpool, we are similar because we both have the willingness to attack. “
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