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Enrique thinks positive ahead of PSG return leg

Xinhua, April 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

FC Barcelona coach Luis Enrique admitted he could change his side's traditional style of play for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final at home to Paris Saint Germain on Tuesday night.

Barca's 3-1 win in Paris a week ago gives them a useful cushion to receive the French side and the fact his side played a tough match against Valencia on Saturday and face a local derby against city rivals Espanyol next weekend could influence the Barca coach, who admitted "he could make some alterations to his side's traditional 4-3-3 line up".

"The difficulty is in the score because now we face a rival who have suffered a bad result and will come here knowing they can't hold anything back," said the Barca coach.

"We will go out to win the game and we want to have the ball. What we got in the first leg is a very good result, but not a decisive one and we need to play another great game in order to qualify," he added.

Enrique added that in contrast to the weekend win at home to Valencia, a side that had been able to rest all week, PSG had played as many games as Barca and were "at the same level of tiredness and recovery".

"Our aim is to qualify and I understand that doing so with a win is the best thing that can happen. There will be times when we suffer as we did in Paris, but I will not settle for any result that is not a win," he insisted.

PSG will be strengthened by the return of Zlatan Ibrahimovich, who was suspended for the first leg and Enrique warned the powerful and temperamental Swede was "a different style of player. He can shoot first time with nearly every part of his body and he is able to move among the best in the World". Endi