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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Aikim Oleri.

PSG dominated club football last season, finally winning the Champions League as well.

But this year, they've not hit the same heights.

So, can they step up to defend their European title?

Right, joining us today in the studio, we've got Tom Williams, we've also got Carl Anker as well.

Good to have you with us, gents.

All right, so ahead of PSG's match against Chelsea in the last 16 of the Champions League

on Wednesday, we thought we'd talk

about their current form. They lost to Monaco in League R last Friday, meaning their lead

has been reduced to just one point. And of course, Monaco are also the team. They narrowly beat

in the Champions League playoffs as well. So Tom, this is not the PSG we're used to seeing, is it?

It's not. It hasn't been for a little while. And I think the expectation in recent weeks

has been that at some point, things would click into place and they would become the PSG that we

got used to seeing last season, the one that laid waste to the

European elite and finally claimed the Champions League, finally scaled the Everest that the

club had been trying to conquer ever since the arrival of their Katari owners in 2011.

And as the weeks have gone on, you've started to think,

maybe that just isn't going to happen.

Like I personally have been sitting down to watch PSG and thinking,

surely at some point we're going to see some sign

that this team is getting close to what it was last season.

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