The whole footballing world will come to a halt on Tuesday night, as PSG takes on Manchester City in Parc des Princes. This will be a clash of titans with both the teams battling for supremacy in the Group A of the Champions League.<\/p>\n
Apart from all the footballing action, what\u2019s fascinating about this fixture is that Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola will be on the same field albeit in opposing teams. There was a time in 2020 when the whole world was waiting and hoping to see the reunion of the two maestros of the game. As Messi was pressing the Catalonian side for a transfer, Guardiola and the Manchester City management were the forerunners to acquire the Argentine. Due to a clause in Messi\u2019s contract, the deal quite couldn\u2019t go through. The chance indeed opened up in 2021, as Barcelona couldn\u2019t renew Messi\u2019s contract due to a financial muddle they found themselves into. The Argentine was forced to leave the club. But sadly Manchester City did not have the funds to support the Six-time Balon d\u2019Or winner, as they had already signed Jack Grealish for a whopping 100 million pounds from Ashton Villa. As a result of it, Messi will now be playing for the French club, Paris Saint Germain against Manchester City.<\/p>\n
Thus far, Messi has played just 3 games for PSG and is yet to mark his appearance. Also, PSG has not had the best of starts as they could only manage a single point from the draw they played against Brugge in their opening game. Hence they will be looking to procure a positive result against City. The Argentine star will be eyeing this as a perfect opportunity to open his account for the season. As far as the record books go, Messi has had quite a decent history against Guardiola. They have faced each other only twice since Guardiola departed from Barcelona and on both occasions, Messi has stood tall.<\/p>\n
In a tie between Barcelona and Bayern (coached by Guardiola) in 2012, Messi scored two sublime goals to win the second tie with an aggregate score of 5-3. The only other occasion where they met was the group stage of 2016, where Messi scored a hattrick and helped his side win 4-0, at home.<\/p>\n
It is these fascinating numbers that make the Tuesday night clash\/reunion all the more exciting.<\/p>\n
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PSG \ud83c\udd9a Man City
Porto \ud83c\udd9a Liverpool
Milan \ud83c\udd9a Atletico
Juventus \ud83c\udd9a Chelsea
Man Utd \ud83c\udd9a Villarreal<\/p>\nWatch every game live on BT Sport this midweek! \ud83e\udd29\ud83c\udf7f pic.twitter.com\/3r8HOcfymm<\/a><\/p>\n
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