Brussels, Belgium
The long-awaited debut of the most anticipated trident in today’s football, formed by the Argentine Lionel Messi, the Brazilian Neymar and the French Kylian Mbappé, can take place tomorrow, Wednesday, in the duel of Champions League against Bruges, PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino said on Tuesday.
“Is possible”, Said the coach at the press conference prior to his team’s debut duel in the top European competition, in which he also assured that “you can not go against” the expectation created by the association of these three players.
“I fell in love with the class action“, Joked the coach, who assured that he has not yet decided the starting eleven of his team against Bruges.
The trident, which associates the two most expensive players in the world and the six-time winner of the Golden Ball, was about to be unable to form due to the possible departure of Mbappé to Real Madrid, but the frustrated transfer makes it possible.
The Argentine coach acknowledged that with the reinforcements this season has raised great expectations in his team, but clarified that they are not the favorites.
“The team at Barti is Chelsea, which is what they won last year and which has been bolstered with more money than PSG,” he said.
Pochettino noted that they are working to form a good team, but that for now they are “a club that has recruited good players.”
“We are not yet a team (…) we have to do the work necessary to match what Chelsea did last season,” he noted.
The coach said that he feels privileged by the number of options he has to make up his team: “In the twelve years I have been training this is the easiest situation, in other teams I did not have so many options. With these players I am not going to complain about what I have“.
Pochettino assured that he will make his line-ups “with sporting criteria” and has indicated that he will be judged at the end of the season for the results, knowing that the Qatar owners of the club have turned their attention to the Champions League.