Marco Verratti: Paris Saint-Germain Can Still Beat Chelsea

Paris Saint-Germain and Italy international midfielder Marco Verratti has claimed that his side can still overcome Chelsea and progress to the next round of the competition. The Ligue 1 champions hosted the premier league table toppers on tuesday night with the match ending in a 1-1 stalemate with goals form Ivanovic and Edision Cavani.

This exact fixture took place last season with PSG initially beating Chelsea 3-1 at Parc des princes before Chelsea won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to go through in away goals. Verratti said

"We are a strong team, as are Chelsea. We will go to Stamford Bridge to win the match. That's the only result that will allow us to qualify".

"We will give it our best.We have a great opportunity".

"We prepared the match exactly like this.We wanted to wait a bit for Chelsea and try not to give them any space,because they have players in attack who are difficult to get if you leave them space".

"And when we were in possession,we wanted to attack their defence. I think we created some good chances, but we couldn't take advantage of them".

"But we're satisfied. We managed to fight back after we fell behind. Now we will play for qualification in London. I think now that we travel there knowing that we have to win if we want to succeed. Last season,maybe we had the two goal advantage and that was a bad thought".




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