{"id":4667,"date":"2025-04-19T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2025-04-19T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:14:31","slug":"a-former-parisian-predicts-a-huge-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"A former Parisian predicts a &#8220;huge&#8221; confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The former Parisian striker Ludovic Giuly shares his enthusiasm for the meeting of the semi-finals go to the Champions League between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal, and delivers his analysis of the forces involved.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal have an appointment on April 29 for a first leg which promises to be electric. Respectively tomb of Aston Villa and Real Madrid in the previous round, the two clubs are now found in the last square in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The French champion and the vice-champion of England had already met earlier in the season, during the league phase. This first duel had turned to the advantage of the Gunners, victorious 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium last October.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Arsenal is a bit like the same team as Paris&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>In the columns of <em>Parisian<\/em>Ludovic Giuly did not hide his excitement at the idea of \u200b\u200bseeing this shock. The former PSG attacker (2008-2011), expects more spectacle between two training courses that he considers quite close in the approach of the game, and that he even places above the other poster of the last square, Barcelona-Inter.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;She&#39;s going to be huge. It will be even more beautiful to see than Barcelona-Inter Milan. Arsenal is a bit the same team as Paris. Both have a big collective mastery. I think that Arsenal defends a little better than Paris and that Parisians have more talent in attack. (\u2026) If Paris wants to pass, you will have to tighten your defense. But those who love beautiful football and the teams who like to hold the ball will feast on. It&#39;s going to be superb \u201d<\/em>reacted the Lyonnais.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bloc_resume_post\">\n<h2 class=\"bloc_resume_post_title\">In short<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"bloc_resume_post_list\">\n<li>On April 29, Paris Saint-Germain faced Arsenal in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League, after eliminating Aston Villa and Real Madrid respectively.<\/li>\n<li>During their previous confrontation in the league phase, Arsenal beat PSG 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium in October.<\/li>\n<li>Ludovic Giuly, a former PSG player, anticipates a spectacular match, stressing the collective mastery of the two teams and the need for Paris to improve his defense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The former Parisian striker Ludovic Giuly shares his enthusiasm for the meeting of the semi-finals go to the Champions League between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal, and delivers his analysis &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A former Parisian predicts a &quot;huge&quot; 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