PSG Expert Makes Surprising Barcelona Claim for Champions League

The main reason Bairner wants to see Barcelona face off against PSG is that the Spanish side wasn’t challenged last season.

“They’ve managed to build this incredible reputation of being brilliant, having not really beaten anybody at the moment, not really beaten anybody that’s elite,” Bairner added.

“I know in La Liga, they face Real Madrid and they’ve smashed Real Madrid a few times. But equally, the Real Madrid that we saw last season isn’t a particularly good Real Madrid team. How good they are this year also is a little bit up for debate. Barcelona didn’t face any Premier League teams last year, so they made the run to the semi-final of course and then got beaten by Inter.

“So I would love to see PSG play Barcelona just to see how they measure up, because I think Barcelona—or my hot take is that Barcelona—are a little bit overrated at the moment. I’d like to see that as a tie.”