Barcelona has seen the light again after two years falling in the group stage of the Champions League. They will face each other in the quarterfinals, curiously, to the last team that eliminated him in the knockout rounds of the top European competition: Paris Saint-Germain.
It was in the round of 16 of 2020-21. A lot has rained since then. PSG excelled in Barcelona (1-4)as a ‘hat-trick’ from Mbappé and resisted in the Parc des Princes (1-1)…thanks to Keylor Navas, three-time Champions League champion with Madrid.
Donnarumma’s now substitute Barça’s comeback was aborted… with 10 stops!!! that earned him to be chosen ‘MVP’. Many of them, key. In the first half she took a one-on-one match against Dembélé and another against Dest. None, yes, as providential as the penalty that was saved from Messi, with the help of the crossbar, in the added time of the first half and that would have meant the momentary 1-2.
“Messi shoots from the right, from the left, from the center… So I let myself be guided by what I felt at the time and it worked.. It was a very important moment because it was the end of the first half and we had to prevent them from believing in the possibility of qualifying. “Stopping a penalty against a player like Messi is the best,” recognition a ‘France Football’.
Stopping a penalty against a player like Messi is the best
Keylor Navas
Contract ends in June
The situation, for Keylor, has changed radically. With Donnarumma as the indisputable ‘number 1’ for Luis Enrique, the former Real Madrid player He has only had the opportunity to play four games this season, two in the League and two in the Cup.
In between, he has shone with Costa Rica, where he remains a fixture. In the last break they could not avoid the defeat against Argentina (3-1)… but a scandalous victory. Up to 10 stops, again, made by the former Real Madrid goalkeeper. “The son of a bitch is a cat…” assured his ex-colleague Leandro Paredes. In addition, he dressed as a ‘hero’ against Honduras (3-1) to close the ‘Ticos’ qualification for this summer’s Copa América.
Summer, precisely, seems key for Keylor. The goalkeeper ends his contract with PSG and has not renewed. ‘Girlfriends’ are not lacking and he wants to continue fighting. The years do not weigh him down. At 37 ‘springs’ he continues to excel in Paris Saint-Germain’s physical tests.
