On Wednesday night, Newcastle United will have the opportunity to make memories that will last a lifetime when they face Paris Saint-Germain.
Newcastle are back in Champions League action at St James’ Park after a point at AC Milan.
The Magpies will play their first home game in the competition in 20 years, welcoming the megastars of Paris to Tyneside.
Kylian Mbappe and his teammates are determined to win the tournament, but they must first deal with a trip to St James’ Park.
This game has a lot of buzz about it. On Monday night, we watched a drone show, and Wor Flags has a pretty amazing presentation planned for before kickoff.
The hope is that the atmosphere will give Newcastle an advantage against PSG, but World Cup winner Frank Leboeuf believes Luis Enrique’s side will not rise to the occasion. Instead, he believes they will crumble under pressure.
Newcastle, according to Frank Leboeuf, will defeat PSG.
Leboeuf told ESPN UK’s YouTube channel that Newcastle will defeat PSG 3-2 in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
The reason, according to the 55-year-old, is due to PSG’s inadequacies more than Newcastle’s talent.
“Based on what I observed this weekend versus Claremont Foot, their draw, and the start of their season, I don’t see…Sometimes the team’s solidarity is stronger, but I don’t see any enthusiasm with that team,” he said.
“And you’ll be playing at St James’ Park.” The pressure and atmosphere that will be present for Newcastle’s first Champions League game will be agony for Paris Saint-Germain.
“I don’t see enough leaders on the field to deal with that situation.” Maybe I’m wrong, and they’ll be mature enough to deal with it.
“However, based on what I see, there are no other options to predict a loss for Paris Saint-Germain.”
“They are better than Newcastle individually.” But we all know there will be 12 men on the field, and I’m not convinced the Paris Saint-Germain players will be able to deal with that.”
I hope Leboeuf is correct about PSG.
Leboeuf is critical of PSG and believes they will lose at St James’ Park.
That is exactly what Toon fans desire. Supporters must create an intimidating and uncomfortable environment. It must provide an additional 10% to those in black and white, as well as force the opposition to retreat and fold in on themselves.
PSG has more gifted players, but that could work against them at St James’ Park. Newcastle will have 12 men, according to Leboeuf, and he is not indicating that the referee will be on their side.
A 3-2 thriller would be fantastic to behold, and it would mark a magical return to Tyneside for Champions League football.
Let’s hope Leboeuf’s is successful.
Fingers crossed Leboeuf’s PSG concerns come true and Newcastle pick up all three points.
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