Julian Laurent

Yeah, back-to-back, I don't need him, he's laughing, I can hear him.

Back-to-back, OK, away games against lower league teams, that's what they would have wanted, to draw one of those teams.

It would have been better at the Emirates, really, to have been the maximum of the best of the best, but they will take that time with Southampton, much better than when they were under the previous manager, will still.

Now they're fighting to get to the play-off.

in the Championship, so they would have that momentum as well.

They would play a lot of games too, like Arsenal, maybe not as many, but still a lot of games still to be played for Southampton.

But as we saw against Fulham, they played really well.

They deserved to go through.

They could have scored more goals even, so it won't be an easy trip.

Yeah, I think the big difference here, and you could give it 50-50, 51-49, 52-48, whatever you want.

I think the second leg at Stamford Bridge is significant.

And also the fact that the physicality that this Chelsea team has, especially in midfield, is everything that is lacking right now at PSG and why PSG are so far behind where they were last season, for example, is the injuries that they've had and the fact that Hakimi or Dembele

are nowhere near the level as they were last season.

At this stage, it's more that they don't have the intensity, they don't have the energy that they showed last season, that they played with.

And for this team to play in this kind of football, the Luis Enrique style, if you don't have that intensity, that energy, your press is not as efficient, your counter-pressing is not as efficient, your rotation with the ball are not as efficient and not as clinical.

And then you'll suffer, especially against a very physical team like Chelsea.

That's why I've got Chelsea to go through.

apart from Spurs who are rubbish as we know, I've got all the other English teams apart from Newcastle against Barcelona, but the other four to go through and to go far because I think Liverpool as well will do really well.

So I think Arsenal and City is a good shot.

I think it's the first time in a very long time that they get lucky and that's just the way it goes for you.