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UEFA Champions League Starting XI: Paris Saint-Germain Vs FC Barcelona

UEFA Champions League Starting XI: Paris Saint-Germain Vs FC Barcelona

Kylian Mbappe & Lionel Messi

With FC Barcelona needing another record-breaking comeback against Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League tonight, here is how both teams line up!

Click through the gallery above to see the top goalscorers so far in this season's UCL.

The Catalan giants lost the first leg of this round of 16 tie at the Camp Nou 4-1, a game in which Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick.

The massive defeat on home soil left many Barca fans with little hope of the Blaugrana's chances of progressing to the next round, but the mood at the club has improved massively since.

They first managed to come back from a 2-0 first-leg loss at Sevilla to book their ticket in this season's Copa del Rey final, before cutting their gap on leaders Atletico Madrid in LaLiga.

In addition, Joan Laporta was elected as the Catalan club's new president, and many believe all of the above could ignite another historic "remontada" (comeback) – if successful, it would be the first time a team overturns a 4-1 first-leg defeat at home.

The word "remontada" rose to prominence in football circles after Barca beat PSG 6-1 in the 2016/17 Champions League to overturn a 4-0 first-leg defeat.

Tonight's visitors, though, will be without Gerard Pique and Ronald Araujo, who have joined long-term absentees Philippe Coutinho, Ansu Fati and Sergi Roberto on the sidelines.

PSG, meanwhile, will hope to reproduce their brilliant first-leg display in order to avoid another historic humiliation.

They will have to do so without Neymar, however, with the Brazilian having also missed the first leg due to injury.

The two teams have faced each other 12 times to date, with Barca winning five of those ties and PSG four, while three matches ended in a draw.

If Ronald Koeman's Barca are eliminated, it will be the first time since the 2006/07 campaign that the Blaugrana fail to reach the quarter-finals of the competition.

Here is how they line up:

PSG: Navas; Florenzi, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Kurzawa; Gueye, Paredes, Verratti; Draxler, Mbappé, Icardi.

Barca: Ter Stegen; Dest, Mingueza, Lenglet, Alba; Busquets, De Jong, Pedri; Messi, Dembélé, Griezmann.

Read: Ronaldo Blamed For Juve's Shock UCL Elimination

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