Now more than ever, the time has come to make the flame grow in their eyes. Four days before a long-awaited round of 16 first leg of the Champions League against Real Madrid, the ultras are demanding action and above all emotion. Mauricio Pochettino and his players have set the record straight by going to crush Lille (5-1), reigning French champion, on Sunday February 6. But this success has in no way altered the anger of their most fervent supporters who, after demonstrating in the parking lot of the Pierre-Mauroy stadium, also last Sunday, recalled their dissatisfaction on Monday evening, in a press release entitled “Fed up” .
The sporting results, the loss of the Coupe de France mainly, pissed off the fans. They denounce sports management “incomprehensible at all levels” and paint the face of a club “that we no longer support”. No one is spared. From the staff to the players, including the leaders. It is therefore against a background of anger that the CUP, deprived of a Park since December 7, is preparing to return to the enclosure so dear to its heart, this Friday, at 9 p.m., for the reception of Rennes . A match that sounds like “a sporting revenge”, according to Pochettino, since PSG will find the only team to have beaten it in the league this season (2-0, October 3).
Four days before receiving Madrid, the ultras could take the opportunity to send certain messages. It is not forbidden that they boycott the first minutes of the meeting and then unfurl protest banners. Not sure that the inauguration of the fourth outfit of the season does not tense their relationship a little more with a club according to them “obsessed with the sale of jerseys”.
On the ground as in the stands, the sacred union will go through a victory, and it will be without Neymar, still too fair. For him, the timing promises to be shorter and shorter for the reception of Real. Ramos (calf) and Herrera (hamstrings) are still on the flank. The good news from the latest training came with the returns of Wijnaldum, Di Maria and Paredes. They will make it possible to restore a midfielder who has been deprived by injuries in recent times. Even if Rennes is not of the same ilk as Real, a final recital would put all the lights on green and calm the spirits, before the shock of Tuesday.