The botched Champions League was consummated, but if anyone believes that Madrid is going to come out with a complexion for taking on PSG of the sheikh-dollars, they are very wrong.
On the contrary, PSG is the one that has had bad luck with the repetition of the most botched draw in the history of the European Cup. Against Cristiano’s United, it would have had a further chance of qualifying. They have Mbappé, Messi and Neymar.
And maybe Sergio Ramos, assuming that by then his physical problems will have been fixed. But Madrid plays with eleven and PSG with eight. I explain. The galactic trident of Pochettino’s team does not press. They attack with fluidity and joy, but in the defensive work they walk as if they were sunbathing in the El Retiro park.
In modern football, either everyone runs in solidarity and without exceptions or any team brings out the colors. The PSG promises glamor and guarantees a historic collection in the return of the Bernabéu. The media will sell three times more than if the match had been with Benfica.
Soccer fans around the world will turn upside down with two games that will face two models: that of the state-clubs and that of the clubs whose members are the owners.
Real Madrid is upset because UEFA has consummated its botch by making the just pay for sinners, but in sin they will carry penance.
Ceferin will think that it is more feasible for PSG to eliminate Madrid from its ‘little beloved’ Florentino than that Benfica whom everyone saw as a Maria in these round of 16 crosses. I prefer to see the bottle half full.
If Madrid eliminates PSG, which it will, the prestige of the Ancelotti project will multiply exponentially and the number of supporters and fans of the Madrid cause will grow in all corners of the footballing planet.
This tie can mark a before and after. I see no reason to be pissed off. Seeing Vinicius against Neymar, Benzema against Mbappé (that night at the Bernabéu he will understand that he has made the best decision of his life), Modric against Messi, Kroos against Di María. It is priceless.