Cubarsí, 17, has all the qualities to join Barcelona greats - ESPN

Should it take Luis Enrique's fancy on Wednesday, he could line Paris Saint-Germain up against Barcelona with three forwards who have played in, or won, World Cup finals. Those would be: Kylian Mbappé (most goals ever, four, in finals of World Cups), Ousmane Dembélé (winner in 2018, runner-up 2022) and Randal Kolo Muani (runner-up 2022 and scorer in the final shootout.)

If PSG's Spanish coach wanted to mix things up a bit, as he has done this season, he could leave out Kolo Muani and play someone who has won three Champions Leagues, scored in the 2017 final and who's beaten Barça eight times across his career: Marco Asensio. He could select Gonçalo Ramos (Portuguese champion last season and scorer of a 50-minute hat trick against Switzerland in the last World Cup), Lee Kang-in (Copa del Rey winner, U19 World Cup runner-up) or lightning fast winger Bradley Barcola (€45 million transfer from Lyon last summer.)

Take your pick.

Side note: The last time Mbappé faced Barcelona in the Champions League, he scored four goals in 180 minutes. It was like watching frozen, startled rabbits caught in his headlights.

At about 7:00 p.m. CET on Wednesday, 17-year-old Pau Cubarsí will be told that he's starting his second-ever Champions League match at centre-back for Xavi Hernandez's Spanish champions, making only his 12th Barcelona first-team start, and being asked to repel these fearsome Parisian stars in blue and red. His experience deficit will be gigantic, he can only stare in awe at the trophy haul those opposition forwards boast, the smallest age gap between him and the youngest of those PSG forwards is four years (Cubarsí only turned 17 two months ago) and most tuning in to this tantalizing tie will be reckoning «potential