Barcelona boss Luis Enrique doesn’t feel Paris Saint-German are going to suffer a lot just because they are missing a few players.
Though David Luiz has been included in their squad, he remains doubtful for tonight’s clash against the Catalan giants. PSG are also missing Thiago Motta with a thigh injury and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Marco Verratti and Serge Aurier are suspended.
Enrique admits that PSG are missing some important players from their squad for the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie but stressed that the French champions did beat Barcelona in the group stage earlier in the season with Ibrahimovic in their team.
“Paris have several major absentees, let's face it”, Enrique told UEFA.
“But let's not forget they won against us when Zlatan was out, and we won when we met and he played! So you never know how important the absentees will turn out to be.”
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Reflecting on their loss at the Parc des Princes in September, Enrique said that not much has changed between the two teams and stressed that despite losing, they did create enough opportunities to hurt PSG.
However, he admits that they need to improve their defending to keep the Parisians at bay in front of their home fans tonight.
“We're both basically the same teams we were at the start of the season, we're only a bit older … We had a good game in September, although we lost – we had lots of chances.
“But we'll definitely need to improve defensively.”
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