{"id":169591,"date":"2024-04-08T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/kylian-mbappe-fires-warning-to-barcelona-as-champions-league-showdown-looms\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:03:36","slug":"kylian-mbappe-fires-warning-to-barcelona-as-champions-league-showdown-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/kylian-mbappe-fires-warning-to-barcelona-as-champions-league-showdown-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe fires warning to Barcelona as Champions League showdown looms \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kylian Mbappe has warned Barcelona that he plans to stand up and take centre stage in Wednesday\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mbappe bagged four goals against Barca across the two legs of 2020\/21\u2019s last 16 and is hoping to get his hands on the Champions League trophy this season before leaving Paris Saint-Germain on a free transfer, with Barca\u2019s rivals Real Madrid his expected destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the time for great players,\u201d Mbappe told\u00a0<em>Telefoot<\/em>. \u201cI am ready and, as always, I am not going to hide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing the dynamic we have, I\u2019m sure we\u2019re going to give it our all, then the result\u2026 It\u2019s in God\u2019s hands. Like every year, we enter the crucial period of the season. At the end of April, we will already have elements to know what kind of season we will be able to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01htyhn0rzfr2z0hcaq3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kylian Mbappe, Chrislain Matsima\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Mbappe came off the bench to snatch a draw with Clermont Foot \/ Franco Arland\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Mbappe heads into Wednesday\u2019s game feeling refreshed after once again being dropped to the bench for PSG\u2019s 1-1 draw with Clermont Foot on Sunday. The Frenchman set up Goncalo Ramos in the dying embers to snatch a point for Luis Enrique\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Stopping Mbappe will be the key challenge for\u00a0Barcelona\u00a0boss Xavi, but club vice-president Rafa Yuste recently insisted Barca have what it takes to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarcelona can stop the attacks of Mbappe and PSG,\u201d Yuste said. \u201cMbappe is a great player but we look at this as a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur defence conceded very few goals last season. We have to be very serious in both games and do the right things for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe has warned Barcelona that he plans to stand up and take centre stage in Wednesday\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg. Mbappe bagged four goals against Barca across the two legs of 2020\/21\u2019s last 16 and is hoping to get his hands on the Champions League trophy this season before leaving Paris Saint-Germain on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kylian Mbappe fires warning to Barcelona as Champions League showdown looms \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/kylian-mbappe-fires-warning-to-barcelona-as-champions-league-showdown-looms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kylian Mbappe fires warning to Barcelona as Champions League showdown looms \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kylian Mbappe has warned Barcelona that he plans to stand up and take centre stage in Wednesday\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg. 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