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Champions, semifinals: Psg-Manchester City –

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Wednesday the first leg at the Parco dei Principi: Parisians never victorious with the English club. But Manchester lost the only Champions League semi-final they participated in, in 2015-16

Paris Saint Germain-Manchester City, the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals which is staged on Wednesday evening at 9 pm at the Parc des Princes in Paris, has the weight of an early final. The French – finalists defeated last season in Lisbon by Bayern Munich – arrive at the appointment with the scalps of respectable opponents, eliminated in the round of 16 (Barcelona) and quarter-finals (Bayern Munich) with authority, while the British had to climb slightly less steep peaks (the Germans Borussia Moenchengladbach in the second round and Borussia Dortmund in the quarterfinals).

how they get there

The stellar PSG of Champions had some problems in the league and, in terms of the title, they still have four games available to overcome leaders Lille, which precedes them by only one point. Saturday’s victory against Metz (3-1 with a brace from Mbappé and a penalty from Icardi) left the gap unchanged. Manchester City, which in the meantime has posted their fourth consecutive League Cup by beating Tottenham 1-0 (but still dominating), are one step away from winning the Premier League: with five days to go they have 10 points ahead of the United.

the numbers

PSG have not won any of their previous three with Manchester City in European competitions (2 draws and 1 defeat), but could reach the final for the second straight season: they would be the ninth team to do so. City eliminated PSG in their only previous single elimination in European football, in the quarter-finals of the 2015/16 Champions League, with Kevin De Bruyne scoring the winning goal in the second leg at Etihad (3-2 on overall score). The British were then eliminated by Real Madrid in the only semi-final played. City is in fact only in its fourth European semifinal after the 1969-70 and 1970-71 Cup Winners’ Cup and the 2015-16 Championships; she went to the final only once, but winning her only European trophy, the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1970. Pep Guardiola is instead in the eighth Champions League semi-final as a coach, a record he shares with José Mourinho.

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