By Ian King
Put up-summer recap
PSG arrive in Italy for the UEFA Tremendous Cup nonetheless licking their wounds following their World Membership Cup remaining defeat to Chelsea. However their type in opposition to English golf equipment in final yr’s Champions League was one thing else; they beat Premier League opposition within the group stage and each knockout spherical of final yr’s match earlier than their thumping win in opposition to Inter within the remaining. Spurs gained simply considered one of their final 12 within the Premier League final season and completed seventeenth. Successful the Europa League was inadequate to maintain Ange Postecoglou in his job.
Historical past favours the Champions League winners
Considerably surprisingly, these two have by no means met in a aggressive match earlier than. Spurs beat the Parisians 4-2 in a pleasant match again in 2017 because of objectives from Christian Eriksen, Eric Dier, Toby Alderweireld, and Harry Kane, none of whom have now been with the membership for a number of years.
The Champions League winners have gained the final six successive Tremendous Cups, so the historic omens aren’t nice for Spurs.
Key Gamers
All Spurs eyes shall be on the brand new new arrivals, Mohammed Kudus and João Palhinha, who arrived over the summer time from West Ham United and Bayern Munich respectively. Maybe the largest key participant for them shall be new head coach Thomas Frank, for whom it is a first aggressive recreation in control of the group.
PSG aren’t the star-studded galacticos of a number of years in the past, and that served them simply effective final season. Fabián Ruiz scored two within the first half of their 4-0 shellacking of Actual Madrid within the World Membership Cup semi-final, and the Spanish worldwide is at all times a hazard, whereas it’ll be a aggressive debut in aim for his or her new goalkeeper, Lucas Chevalier.
Staff Information
Chevalier’s arrival in Paris from Lille is the large summer time information from PSG, as a result of it does imply the just about sure departure of Gianluigi Donnarumma, who’s in all probability performed his final recreation for the membership. Aside from that PSG will look very a lot the identical as they did on the finish of final season. Spurs shall be lacking James Maddison, who’ll in all probability be out for the season, whereas Dejan Kulusevski and Radu Drăgușin are each nonetheless injured too and Future Udogie is a doubt.
Prediction
The benefit with which Chelsea brushed PSG apart within the World Membership Cup remaining is the one small glimmer of sunshine that Spurs have forward of a match from which it’s tough to see them taking something.
They might have extra switch enterprise to hold out earlier than the tip of August, however there’s little to counsel they’ll be a lot improved upon final season past, “Properly, they’ll’t do any worse”.
PSG proved what we might all see within the Champions League remaining, that they have been one of the best group in Europe all through 2024-25 by a distance. They need to be snug winners right here, and a 4-0 win doesn’t appear out of the query.
(Cowl picture from IMAGO)
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