Champions League
PSG on the brink of Champions League embarrassment
Ahead of today’s visit of Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain know that a slip-up could cost them their place in the UCL.

It’s Matchday 7 of the 2024/25 Champions League and today’s games could prove fatal for one of Europe’s biggest clubs. Manchester City’s trip to Paris Saint-Germain is surely the most high-profile of the round and the stakes could scarcely be higher.
Both PSG and City have severely underperformed in this season’s competition, each managing just two wins from their first six games. Hopes of automatic qualification for the round-of-16 have disappeared and one of them may soon be exiting the competition entirely.
PSG sit 26th in the 36-team league, two places adrift of the final playoff place. If the French champions lose to Manchester City and Real Madrid, Celtic and Dinamo Zagreb all win their Wednesday games, PSG will find themselves three points adrift with only one game to go. That would leave the team needing a miracle in Matchweek 8 to avoid a chastening league phase exit.
PSG take on a Man City team that, while not as imperious as previous years, are still among the strongest on the continent. Pep Guardiola’s side clicked back into gear last weekend with a 6-0 drubbing of Ipswich Town and City will be eager to keep up that momentum.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday PSG head coach Luis Enrique admitted that the prospect of facing City is a daunting one. He knows that a positive result is needed to ensure that his side’s Champions League campaign stretches beyond this month.
“I hope the most important match is not the one against Manchester City, I hope it will be in the next phase of the competition at a very high level with the trophy at stake,” Luis Enrique explained.
“I hope to have other more important games, but this is a special game because in the new format of the Champions League I don’t think anyone could predict that City would have this number of points ahead of match day seven.”
He continued: “But that is football and that is the new format. Right now we don’t know how many points we will need to qualify, nobody can say. Maybe after this match day we will know that.”
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