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Another blockbuster Barcelona reunion awaits Luis Enrique and his Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) charges on Tuesday evening, when the Champions League holders welcome one of their fiercest rivals for the crown to the Parc des Princes in a top-of-the-table league phase clash.
Both Les Parisiens and La Blaugrana are two for two in Europe in 2026-27, the former taking down Slovan Bratislava and Manchester City while Hansi Flick’s side have torn apart Galatasaray and Feyenoord.
Top dogs in Europe for the past two seasons and already top of the continental tree this time around, PSG are on course to sail through to the last 16 as league-phase winners, and the first 30 minutes of Etihad action last week demonstrated why,reports Sports Mole.
Even with no Khvicha Kvaratskhelia – last year’s Champions League player of the season – in the starting XI, PSG produced a scintillating half-hour of football to race into a 3-0 lead against the Premier League leaders, becoming the first away team to ever score 3+ goals in the first half of a Champions League match at the Etihad.
While Man City ‘won’ the second half thanks to Erling Haaland’s two strikes either side of a Maghnes Akliouche goal, the damage was done in PSG’s first-half masterclass, which served as further proof that the European champions are well and truly back.
After failing to win any of their first three Ligue 1 games of the season, Les Parisiens have now triumphed in six on the spin in all tournaments, after following up their six-goal Man City success with a 3-1 comeback win at Strasbourg in the top flight.
PSG have averaged over three goals per game during their six-game winning sequence – netting 19 in total – but cracks have appeared in Enrique’s defence; the holders have kept just one clean sheet in 10 matches this term and have conceded in each of their last four contests.
Hardly masters of the rearguard arts themselves, Barcelona can only boast one clean sheet from their last seven games across all competitions, but the La Liga champions have also let their absorbing attack do the talking this term.
The joint-second highest scorers in the 2026-27 Champions League with nine goals – the same number as Aston Villa and one fewer than PSG’s unrivalled 10 – Barca put five past Feyenoord last month before hitting Galatasaray for four in Istanbul on matchday two, coming from a goal down to prevail 4-1.
Another exhilarating away day followed in La Liga on Saturday evening, when La Blaugrana bested Real Betis 5-2 to extend their extraordinary 100% record this term, now sitting on 11 victories from as many matches in all tournaments.
Flick’s men have netted multiple goals in every single one of those triumphs too – firing in 48 in total – while Saturday’s success saw Barcelona become the first team since Real Madrid in 1968 to win each of their first nine La Liga matches in a single season.
However, the last two head-to-heads between PSG and Barcelona have seen the French champions prevail – most recently a 2-1 Camp Nou win in the 2025-26 league phase – and even La Blaugrana’s last victory in this battle, a 3-2 quarter-final away triumph in 2024, was in vain owing to PSG’s 4-1 second-leg slaughter six days later.
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