PSG statement confirms major injury worry before Liverpool tie in Champions League

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PSG has confirmed a major injury worry before it takes on Liverpool in the Champions League next month, with Luis Enrique's side hoping to repeat the trick from last seasonBradley Barcola during a PSG training session.(Image: Valery HACHE / AFP via Getty Images)PSG forward Bradley Barcola could miss the Champions League rematch against Liverpool next month after suffering ligament damage during his side's victory over Chelsea.A PSG statement said Barcola would be out for a "few weeks" with the clash at the Parc des Princes set for Wednesday, April 8. Losing him for the game would be a major blow, though PSG would remain the favorite to progress.READ MORE: PSG could get major advantage over Liverpool as postponement option emergesREAD MORE: Virgil van Dijk delivers Anfield crowd verdict after recent Liverpool criticism"If you go to the latter stages of the Champions League, you know one thing for sure: that you're going to face Paris Saint-Germain because it is an incredible team," Arne Slot said earlier this week."We've experienced that last season when we faced them.

I said tonight we played a perfect game and here at Anfield we played also a fantastic game [against PSG]."I've said a lot of times how great of a match that was, the best game I've managed in my career — maybe not in the result, but how football should be played.PSG head coach Luis Enrique during a press conference.(Image: Glenn Gervot - PSG via Getty Images)"Both teams just playing football, just wanting to enjoy the fans, to entertain the fans. We were the only team that brought them to extra-time, the only team that brought them to penalties, but that team has shown this season that they haven't dropped a level."We showed tonight that we can still perform at the level we were performing [at] for large parts of last season, so it gives me, us, a lot of confidence that we have this performance."It's not the first one this season, we've had more of them — especially in Europe — and we have to try to find the consistency, although I can already disappoint people."This performance is impossible to copy one more time because 5.02 expected goals on a Champions League night with conceding 0.18, I think, that is not going to be easy to copy one more time."Get LFC's 2025/26 season home and away kitsThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it.

Learn moreFrom $100LFC.comSee the dealLiverpool's home and away strips for the 2025/26 season are the first in their new partnership with adidas.Fans can order jerseys in the US at Fanatics.com or via the LFC Online Store in both the US and across the world.Though it could be without Barcola, PSG might get another advantage. The reigning European champion has won the Ligue 1 title four years in a row — and in 11 of the last 13 editions — but domestically is only a point ahead of Lens as things stand.PSG is scheduled to play Lens away from home in a potential title decider between its two games with Liverpool, but there is talk in France that Lens could agree to postpone that game in order to give PSG more time to prepare for its European tie.According to RMC Sport, Lens is not "totally opposed" to allowing the game to be moved to later in the season.PSG would then have a free weekend between its two games with Liverpool, while the Reds host Fulham in need of the points to get into next season's edition of the tournament via a top-five Premier League finish.