Chelsea’s long-standing rivalry with PSG is set to continue after the two sides drew each other in the Champions League Round of 16.
The Blues now know their potential route to the final in Budapest, with them likely having to beat a number of Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Manchester City even if they get past PSG.
Chelsea’s recent history against the Ligue 1 side is very positive. They decimated them in the Club World Cup final, with both players and staff clashing after the game.
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Robert Sanchez wanted to knock PSG out of the Champions League before it even started
There was unhappiness from the Parisians regarding a late red card for Joao Neves for a hair pull on Marc Cucurella, and this is an incident Chelsea didn’t forget.
Before the group stage draw, the Chelsea players were asked by the club who they would like to face in this season’s competition, with Robert Sanchez naming the current holders.
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He said: “Give us PSG man so we can get them out and they will have no excuse this time as well.”
There can be very few excuses from PSG regarding what happened on the pitch. Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro were too much to handle on that day in the USA.
Enzo Maresca’s tactics must be adopted by Liam Rosenior for this tie, including pushing Reece James into midfield and starting Palmer off the right.
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Chelsea’s previous results vs PSG
Across the Champions League and Club World Cup, Chelsea have met PSG nine times, enduring an equal amount of wins, draws and losses.
Their most recent meeting in this competition saw the Blues dumped out at this stage in 2016. The same fate occurred 12 months earlier too.
One of the best moments in recent history at Stamford Bridge saw Demba Ba score late to dump the Parisians out in the quarter-finals in 2014, the first of three consecutive years they met in the Champions League.
It is the Blues who boast the recent bragging rights from the Club World Cup final, and it is clear that the players are hungry to recreate that success in the Champions League next month.
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