Liverpool are through the to quarter finals of the Champions League following Wednesday night’s unexpected demolition of Galatasaray, and their reward will be to face Paris Saint-Germain. The Ligue 1 outfit are fresh off an 8-2 aggregate hammering of Chelsea—and they’re the side that dispatched the Reds last season.
However, they benefitted from Ligue 1’s willingness to shift things around domestically to their benefit, with a match against Nantes between the two legs against Chelsea postponed to ensure
they would be well rested, and there had been chatter the Parisians could seek a similar reshuffle to benefit them against Liverpool.
That, though, appears impossible as their opponents would have to agree to any switch. And their opponents for the weekend between Liverpool matches are Lens, currently just a point back of PSG in the table and eager to try to break the oil club’s stranglehold on the French league that has seen them win the last four titles.
As such, Lens have said they would only consider moving the fixture if it “makes sense” for their priorities. Which everyone is reading as a polite way of telling PSG to bugger off and not even think of asking for another fixture to be rearranged since a tired and/or distracted PSG would very much be their best case scenario.
While PSG looked dominant and clinical against Chelsea, having gone all the way to the final at least summer’s club world cup (along with eventual winners Chelsea) has plenty of people wondering just how much the sportswashing front for a human rights abusing petrostate (a different one) have left in the tank.
