Round of 16 Champions League - Real Madrid vs PSG | First leg at Santiago Barnebeu (15/02/2018) | The second leg at the Parc des Princes (07/03/2018) | At 2:45 pm
Only leaving half a month away, a grand battle between two big clubs different countries will be presented in the competition terasi Europe, Champions League. Real Madrid with a tidal performance in Spain's domestic competition will play Paris Saint Germain with a charming look in France.
Zinedine Zidane's squad strives to recover from their downturn, and begins to re-show the invisible fighting spirit throughout this season, they were able to pass their first test in La Liga by shaving 4-1 valencia at the weekend (27/01).
Neymar and colleagues, according to predictions, were able to appear dominant in Ligue 1, and recorded only two defeats in 23 jornada. In the Champions League group stage, PSG also only once produced zero points against Bayern Munich, but was able to snatch the full number in the previous five games.
Speaking of the Champions League, Real Madrid are their champions, they are the 12th-ranked winner of all the clubs in the UEFA Europe zone, while PSG is arguably the only club to come to the surface in recent seasons, and even then it's not an achievement.
Zinedine Zidane's squad lifted three of the four Champions League trophies in the last four editions. No one doubts Los Blancos's capacity to win again this season, though only qualify with the runner-up status of group H, but Cristiano Ronaldo entrenched atop the top scoring list through a 9-goal lead.
The pinched position with heavy pressure will turn into a major force, if Real Madrid are able to unite and show a positive counter. La Liga and Copa del Rey are out of hand, and now the Champions League is the sole focus of Zidane and all his troops.
PSG is building strength to talk a lot in Europe, it's naïve to buy some of the best players at the most, if only to reclaim the title of Ligue 1 champion from the hands of AS Monaco. PSG's priority is of course the Champions League, where they appear as a new figure in European competition.
The best of Les Parisiens' achievements was limited to the semi-finals of the 2003/04 season, and ironically when Al Khelaifi acquired club ownership in mid-2012, PSG was only able to advance to the quarter-finals only.
But as long as the wheel is still spinning, nothing will be impossible in this world, as well as with Tim Newbie who defeated Team Jagoan. It's just that the tradition in the Champions League seems still difficult to tear down, where the determination of champions in each season only around big clubs that have a historical aspect.
In the last two decades, only Chelsea is capable of knocking out a solid tradition in the Champions League, the Blues are diarsiteki Roberto di Matteo able to lift the first trophy in the history of the club at the end of the 2011/12 season.
