Julien Laurent
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I think you saw City with injuries because they went not as far but still quite far.
And I think that was probably a bit of a consequence of the summer that they had, really, all of them.
fitness is to this PSG team because they need the intensity.
They need to be outrunning you and outpressing you.
If you don't have the fitness side of it, it's obviously more difficult.
God, I absolutely despise that competition.
I think it's a very fascinating one because we mentioned De Jong and Riley Sobh, but Bruno Guimaraes won't be back either for Newcastle.
And Guimaraes is probably, with Anthony Gordon, certainly in the Champions League, the most important player in this Newcastle team.
With and without the ball and without him, it's not the same at all.
And Tonali is probably not still fully fit.
And Joelinton is just only coming back from an injury.
So all that midfield three that for the last two years have been the strength of this Newcastle team, really, and the heart of it and the engine of it,
won't be there suddenly at full strength.
So that's probably where the game could be played.
But yeah, of course, Newcastle have everything really to exploit the high line defensively from Barcelona.
As we saw back in September when they lost, Rashford scored two great goals at St.