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Confrontation between Real and PSG - the most intriguing in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. And there are many reasons for this. Highlighting the main of them, it is necessary to say about the rather shaky position of both mentors. After the failure in the domestic arena, Zinedine Zidane had only one opportunity to save this season - to win the Champions League for the third time in a row. Otherwise, he will definitely leave Madrid.

As for Unai Emery, he was called to Paris solely for the purpose of making him the strongest team in Europe. However, the first attempt ended with an incredible flight from Barcelona after a guest defeat with a score of 1: 6. What will the attempt number two - we learn very soon.

So, for Real Madrid is the last chance to at least slightly brighten up the season, which until today was absolutely failing. Although many people can only dream of such a "failure". For some reason, no one remembers how in August in the most beautiful style, "creamy" won the Spanish Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, as in December they won the club world championship. For some reason, all together forgot how exactly Real Madrid became the first team to win the Champions League twice in a row. And although the old merits of football do not play, all these victories remind of the unique ability of Real Madrid to hold crucial matches. But after all, the confrontation with the Parisians for Zidane's wards is exactly that.

On the extreme importance of the battle with PSG spoke, and Zidane, and Ronaldo, and team captain Sergio Ramos. It seems that the idea that the season should be saved right now, all the "madridists". In other words, the current Real is like a wounded beast. He is angry with everyone around him and with himself, he is incredibly dangerous, he realizes that there will be no other chance.

Extremely motivated and Cristiano Ronaldo. It seems that the long-lasting drought and sharp criticism from the press made him jolly. On Saturday, when Real Madrid hosted teammates from San Sebastian, we finally saw the old-good Ronaldo. The Portuguese was again irresistible and issued a hat-trick, which may well indicate a return to the former level. Yes, unsuccessful periods have happened to him before, but Ronaldo always differed in that he is absolutely ready at the crucial moments of the season.

And what about PSG? De facto, this club has already broken into a cohort of European grandees. But when we talk about this, first of all we mean the financial component. But with purely sporting achievements, things are much worse - after the arrival of the sheikhs on the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Parisians have not yet passed. A year ago, they generally "stumbled" into an amazing story, when after home 4-0 with the disassembled Barcelona managed in the return meeting to lose with a difference of five goals.

Someone will say that then in the PSG was no longer Ibrahimovic and there was no Neimar. This argument is quite appropriate, but in buying a Brazilian there is a downside to the coin. The fact is that with his appearance of Unai Emery ceased to be the main person in the team. In PSG do not even hide that Neimar is in a privileged position in comparison with all the rest. He is allowed more than others, any of his whims is executed unconditionally, even if this is to the detriment of team interests.

And Emery can only put up with all this. In the end, not for him the sheikhs dumped 222 million ... Such a situation can not but affect the game of the team. In the domestic arena, PSG extremely rarely falls into "extreme" conditions, when the result is literally gnawing teeth. Here the team is in a hothouse environment, it has no real competitors. And if so, check it for resilience, including psychological, virtually no one.

Another thing - European Cups. And especially - knockout matches. Here a completely different level of heat. To play is necessary on a background of an extreme psychological exertion. Parisian stars, accustomed to warmth and comfort, are simply unable to change their minds in a different way. It is this that can explain all their European Cup failures in recent years.

And of course, you can not ignore the story of the allegedly preparing passage of Neimar from PSG to Real Madrid. Now it is difficult to say how true it is - we have already stopped wondering even the most crazy transfers. But in any case, all this hype is also in favor of Real, because it can not help but affect the psychological state of the Brazilian. And he, as you know, special endurance never differed and is ready to let down a tear for the slightest reason.

Thus, the outcome of this confrontation is in fact predetermined. Parisians do not have a single chance to resist under the pressure of the furious Real.

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