{"id":2215,"date":"2026-04-12T20:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:11:29","slug":"psg-lineup-vs-liverpool-predicted-xi-for-champions-league-quarter-final-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"PSG lineup vs. Liverpool: Predicted XI for Champions League quarter-final second leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique could receive a major injury boost in time for Tuesday&#8217;s Champions League quarter-final second leg with Liverpool at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Les Parisiens strode to a <strong>2-0 triumph over the Reds<\/strong> in the first leg at the Parc des Princes, where Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia produced the goods for the reigning champions.<\/p>\n<p>The latter will miss the first leg of any semi-final if he is cautioned here, though, and Enrique should have Bradley Barcola back at his disposal following an ankle injury after his return to training last week.<\/p>\n<p>The PSG boss could therefore deploy Barcola on the left to ensure Kvaratskhelia is available for a possible Bayern Munich or Real Madrid battle, but the Georgia international should still be given the nod regardless of Barcola&#8217;s fitness levels.<\/p>\n<p>Kvaratskhelia, Doue and Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Ousmane Dembele therefore ought to start in an unchanged forward line for PSG, who have had a weekend off from Ligue 1 football to prepare for Tuesday&#8217;s return fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Ruiz is still working his way back from a knee injury, though, so Warren Zaire-Emery should continue in the engine room alongside Portuguese pair Vitinha and Joao Neves.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno Mendes will resume his Mohamed Salah rivalry out wide, while Achraf Hakimi could find himself up against Rio Ngumoha on the opposite flank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris Saint-Germain possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Safonov; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Mendes; Zaire-Emery, Vitinha, Neves; Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia<\/p>\n<p><strong>> Click here to see how Liverpool could line up against PSG <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique could receive a major injury boost in time for Tuesday&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}