If you are a Paris Saint-Germain fan, you have to be worried about the comments Luis Enrique has made ahead of the visit of Chelsea this Wednesday.
PSG host Chelsea in the first leg of this highly-anticipated Champions League tie, but they head into it on the back of a defeat.
Since then, Enrique has admitted that PSG are in a difficult moment right now ahead of Wednesday.
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Luis Enrique suggests PSG are lacking confidence after Monaco defeat
Last Friday, PSG were beaten 3-1 by AS Monaco, which has left Enrique feeling a bit concerned about his team and their confidence.
Speaking to L’Equipe, the 55-year-old said: “Clearly, when there are problems, it’s the head that disconnects first. It’s usual. It’s a bizarre sensation, a bad one, but you have to know that it’s only one match. You are always looking for the key to understand why you can miss things, but it’s multifactorial.
“Confidence is not something you can buy… you have to build it day after day. We are in difficulty, but we must keep the hope of changing that.”
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Enrique also has to take into account that Chelsea have already beaten his PSG side and quite convincingly.
In last summer’s Club World Cup final, the Blues defeated their French counterparts 3-0. Cole Palmer bagged a brace that day, while Joao Pedro scored the team’s other goal.
Liam Rosenior has also had success against PSG in the past as Strasbourg manager.
Chelsea need to press high and aggressively early at the Parc des Princes
With PSG clearly lacking confidence at the moment, they are vulnerable. With that in mind, Chelsea really need to get at them.
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That means pressing high and aggressively early on and seeing if they can get them to make a costly mistake.
It would be mad to try to do it for the full 90 minutes. With the attacking threat that the French champions have, Chelsea will eventually be slaughtered on the counter-attack.
But if they start positively and can find an early goal to defend, that really could change the entire dynamic of not just the first leg but the entire tie.
Chelsea and PSG’s head-to-head record is identical, so you can expect these two games to also be quite close. If Rosenior can get his tactics spot on, though, Chelsea can win this, especially with where PSG find themselves right now.
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