Messi’s PSG hosts Paredes’ Juventus

Paris Saint Germain, with the presence of Lionel Messi, will host Juventus tomorrow from Leandro Paredes but without Angel Di Maria because of an injury. The match will take place under the framework of the first date of the European Champions League.The match will be played from 16 at the Parque de los Príncipes stadium and will be televised by ESPN and Star+. In this way, Messi will start his 19th. consecutive season of the European Champions League and will reach his former teammate and current coach of Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, as the third player with more games played in history. The Rosario’s played 156 games and with 125 goals is the second historical scorer of the competition below the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the great absentee of the 2022/23 season since his Manchester United did not qualify.

At 35 years old and less than three months before the appointment in Qatar, the seven-time player elected best player in the world will seek to fulfill the first objective of the season: to qualify PSG to the knockout stages of the Champions League. In that sense, the first examination of the champion of France will be against Juventus, the most winning team in Italy.For his part, Paredes will return to the Parc des Princes where at the end of April they were celebrating the title of the French Ligue 1. The Argentine was the last to leave the club and arrived in Turin on loan for a season with an option to buy. Instead, Di Maria closed his successful cycle of seven seasons after not renewing the link that expired on June 30 but finally will not be able to return to his excasa since he is not in full physical after the muscle injury he suffered 20 days ago. 

Original source in Spanish