Paul Pogba reveals what he has learned while watching Barcelona matches

Paul Pogba admits he will face a club he often learns when Manchester United face Barcelona in the Champions League next month.

The Frenchman has been in a better shape since the appointment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in December, after his relationship with former boss José Mourinho deteriorated sharply.

And the winner of the World Cup will be hard pressed to impress when United meet Lionel Messi and his teammate in the last eight of the leading European football competition next month, after seeing his team beat Paris Saint-Germain. after his suspension.

"Barcelona is a team I always watch," Pogba told Eurosport while he was on an international mission with France for the Euro 2020 qualifiers.

"You can always learn as a midfielder, I like watching football, their system, their culture … it can always help me.

"Barcelona is a great team, one of the best in the world and they have great players.

"It's a game where I want to have fun." Playing against one of the world's best teams is always a pleasure – it's a team I've lost when the final of the Champions League (in 2015 with Juventus), but it's always good to play against the best. "

Pogba added that he felt "stressed" by watching his teammates dramatically beat PSG in goals outside the final round, thanks to an interruption penalty with controversy inflicted via VAR. and marked by Marcus Rashford.

"It's rather strange," he continued.

"I think there was more pressure against PSG than in the World Cup final.

"Rashford's penalty I was stressed out was crazy, when you play football, you always believe it, even after a 2-0 loss."

"I was surprised because it was PSG, we know the players that they have. In addition, we played at the Parc des Princes so they had the advantage. I was surprised especially when that happened, but I was happy because we progressed. "