Our prediction for this Champions League match:
Club Brugge
Match Time & Date:
15/09/2021
21:00
Prediction: 1-4
PSG
Paris Saint Germain will be aiming to kick off their Champions League campaign in great manner when they take on Club Brugge at Jan Breydel Stadion. Messi-les Parisiens crushed Clermont 4-0 at the weekend, and seeing that the “Argentine magician” returns from international duty, is is no wonder the bookies see Mauricio Pochettino’s troops as hot favourites to win Wednesday’s clash. The likes of Di Maria, Neymar, and Paredes return to contention as well, while Bernat, Kurzawa, Verratti, Kimpembe, and Ramos remain in the recovery room.
Club Brugge will have a mountain to climb in their Champions League opener, and seeing that they have been anything but impressive at the back of late, away win should be considered. In their last meeting at the venue PSG crushed Club Brugge 5-0, and we predict that the history is going to repeat itself.
Highlighted Player (Simon Mignolet):
Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet is a Belgium goalkeeper born on 6 March 1988 in Sint-Truiden. He began his career in a club from his hometown, making 100 league appearances for Sint-Truidense before moving to Sunderland in 2010.
Mignolet would go on to spent next four years at the Stadium of Light, making 90 Premier League appearances. As one of world’s most talented goalkeepers, the Belgium international signed for Liverpool in the summer of 2013, and he has since been the club’s first choice goalkeeper. Performing admirably most of the time, but also committing cheap mistakes at times, Mignolet has yet to win over the Liverpool fans, but remains highly regarded in his native country.
The talented shot-stopper has been a member of the Belgium national team since 2011, earning over 20 caps for the Red Devils, but he has been playing second fiddle to Chelsea star Thibaut Courtois over the last few years.
Highlighted Team (PSG):
Formed by the merger of Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain in 1970, Paris Saint-Germain or as they call it PSG is the most successful club in French football with 31 domestic titles to their name. Having won six Ligue 1 title so far, a record ten Coupes de France, a record six Coupes de la Ligue, six Trophees des Champions and one Ligue 2 title, PSG are also one of only two French clubs to ever win a European title.
Les Parisiens were crowned UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup champions back in 1995-96, while their last European trophy was the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Beginning of the new millennium was particularly hard for the celebrated club who flirted with relegation in 2000s before they were bought by the Quatar Sports Investments group in 2011 when the rebirth of the Paris Saint-Germain as we know it today began.
Following heavy squad investments and team boosting, PSG won their first Ligue 1 title in 19 years with Swedish legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic almost singlehandedly leading his side towards the trophy with 30 goals. Having established domestic dominance, PSG now set their sights on winning the Champions League which remains an elusive dream for the club from Paris.
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