The last manager Enzo Maresca wants at Stamford Bridge right now is Jose Mourinho and we can\u2019t imagine Ibrahima Konate is much more positive about the prospect of Victor Osimhen being the latest quality centre-forward to put him to the sword.<\/p>\n
Barcelona hosting PSG should be a cracker and in a Big Midweek otherwise light on quality clashes, if in doubt, watch Eintracht Frankfurt. They\u2019ve gone completely mad.<\/p>\n
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Game to watch: Barcelona v Paris Saint Germain<\/p>\n
For a revamped competition which ensures Bigger Games More Often this is a Big Midweek to test that theory. We feel fairly confident we could predict pretty much every game and wouldn\u2019t necessarily recommend watching any of them, aside from this absolute whopper.<\/p>\n
The Champions League holders vs the La Liga champions, they\u2019re arguably the two best teams in Europe, both play beautiful football and four of the top five players in the world play for them according to the recent Ballon d\u2019Or rankings<\/a> (Ousmane Dembele [1], Lamine Yamal [2], Vitinha [3], Raphinha [5]). It almost makes up for a game week with 95% duds.<\/p>\n PSG stomped all over Atalanta in their first fixture and sit top of Ligue 1, but haven\u2019t quite hit their indomitable stride, losing to title rivals Marseille last week. But they didn\u2019t really get going last year until the end of the group stage.<\/p>\n Barcelona beat Newcastle in their Champions League opener and are the unbeaten leaders of La Liga, having scored 21 and conceded just five in their first seven games of the campaign. And Marcus Rashford \u2013 the hero of that win at St James\u2019 Park \u2013 has fond memories of PSG clashes, with three goals and two assists in six games, and was excellent for Villa against them in the second leg of their quarter-final last season.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Marcus Rashford the latest Old Trafford escapee to get that post-Man United glow-up<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Manager to watch: Enzo Maresca<\/p>\n After a spattering of boos following defeat to Brighton<\/a>, amid murmurs that the Chelsea chiefs may use the October international break to scour the market for managerial alternatives, the last person Maresca will have wanted to be rocking up at Stamford Bridge is Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n The Blues fans will allow themselves a love-in as their hero returns as manager of a team that\u2019s not a direct rival and Maresca should brace himself for choruses of his counterpart\u2019s name no matter what happens in the game, but particularly if things don\u2019t go to plan.<\/p>\n It won\u2019t be a case of \u2018look at what you could have\u2019 as no right-minded Chelsea fan would be in favour of a third Mourinho stint, but victory or even a draw for their favourite son would make for an all-too-easy parallel to be drawn between Maresca and the man against whom all other Chelsea managers are inextricably compared.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Maresca sack? Current Premier League bosses dominate next Chelsea manager contenders<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Player to watch: Ibrahima Konate<\/p>\n