Paris: Lionel Messi is set to make his first appearance in the Champions League in a shirt other than Barcelona’s on Wednesday , September 15 as Paris Saint-Germain take on Club Brugge. The very same day Real Madrid will be visiting Inter Milan starting their campaign to bring the 14th trophy home.
The football world have been anticipating in much patience to see Messi, Neymar Jr and Kylian Mbappé together and tonight might be the night the wait ends. Paris have been real close to the trophy on numerous occasions recently ,but have narrowly lost their chances. They will be desperate to turn their fate this time and would look forward to kick start their campaign with a win to bolster the confidence.
Real Madrid are in real high spirits with Karim Benzema boosting in confidence, while the absence of Gareth Bale owing to injuries would not affect so much given the formidable attacking options like Vinicius Junior, Eden Hazard and new signing Eduardo Camavinga who even scored on his debut, the departure of Raphael Varane and Sergio Ramos had made the defense really shaky. The weakness has been exposed a lot of times and Inter Milan forwards like Lautaro Martinez and Edin Dzeko will be able to exploit it vastly.
Last season’s runners up Manchester City who lost the trophy by a solitary goal from Chelsea , will begin their quest for the European title against RB Leipzig at Etihad while Liverpool host AC Milan at Anfield who would be missing out on Zlatan Ibrahimovic due to injury.
In other matches of the day, Atlético Madrid will be visited by FC Porto and Ajax will be taking on Portuguese side Sporting CP.
