Coaches Laurent Blanc and Luis Enrique should be able to share a few friendly words across the technical area this week - the two were briefly Barca team-mates back in the 1996-97 season.

PSG boss Blanc may have ended his career as a dawdling centre-half at Manchester United but was peerless at his best, a brilliant reader of the game and a high-class distributor too.

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Barca coach Enrique was - as fans of a certain management game of the era will recall - a very versatile player but mainly used in midfield. What a player, what a kit!

So PSG are formidable at home, and Barcelona are rather impotent in France.

For a side who have laid waste to most of Europe in recent times their record across the Pyrenees is surprisingly tame.

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Barca have not won in their last four visits, although three of those were drawn.

They last won on French soil at Lyon in the 2001-02 group stage, Xavi playing in a 3-2 victory. He's still going strong. Can he be part of another big win tonight? He's on the bench.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic sits this one out with a one-game ban after his contentious sending off against Chelsea in the last round. Also banned is midfielder Marco Verratti, while right-back Serge Aurier begins a three-game ban for "insulting acts" towards the referee.

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Blaise Matuidi and Gregory van der Wiel are both a booking away from a ban.

For Barca, right-back Dani Alves serves a one-match suspension.

How can PSG beat Barcelona tonight?

Well, for starters, their home record is nothing short of outstanding.

Laurent Blanc's side are unbeaten in 33 European home games - winning 22 - with their last defeat a 4-2 loss to Hapoel Tel-Aviv in the old Uefa Cup way back in November 2006.

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And that was a very different - pre Qatar money - side. Made up of the likes of David Hellebuyck and Pierre-Alain Frau. Well exactly...

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Daily Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter has posted this picture on Twitter,, external adding: "Glorious evening at Parc des Princes. Another playground for Messi?

When you are playing Barcelona for a place in the last four of the Champions League you could really do with your talisman.

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Paris St-Germain need Zlatan Ibrahimovic - but tonight he is suspended.

They need the sort of guy who says that France don't even deserve to have a team like PSG.

The sort of guy who gets annoyed by being named the second-best Swedish sportsman of all time and says "I would have been No 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 - with due respect to the others."

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The sort of guy who stole his manager's bike as a child to save a 5km walk to training.

But more importantly, the sort of guy who has scored 43 Champions League goals and won titles in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France.

PSG have no Zlatan tonight, but do PSG have a chance? You bet...