PSG are the perennial favourites for the Ligue 1 title – but the least their fans expect is for them to win the French league, the weakest of Europe’s major top flights.
The Champions League is the theatre of PSG’s most passionate hopes for glory, and over recent years the tournament’s knockout rounds have provided stages for the tragic denouement of those hopes.
The Parisians only managed to reach the final once since sugar daddies Qatari Sports Investments took over in 2011, pumping in cash and pumping up hopes – a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in 2020, in one of the most lacklustre Champions League finals in living memory.
The remarkable defeat to Barcelona in the 2017-18 second round still haunts PSG. In the first leg at the Parc des Princes, PSG showcased all the prowess that money can buy, with a 4-0 victory.