Paris Saint-Germain v Chelsea Football Boots Preview

The Champions League is back! Today Europe's most prestigious club competition returns with the first two matches of the last-16 round.

Today's top pick is surely Paris Saint-Germain against Chelsea. Following last year's quarter final exit against Mourinho's side, PSG will be looking to gain advantage in the first leg at home. They will be without some of their best players, though, following a number of injuries in the last Ligue 1 match against Caen (2-2).

Paris Saint-Germain Boot XI

This is the PSG Boot XI for the Chelsea Champions League last-16 clash.

The main talking point for PSG in terms of boots and anything else will be Zlatan Ibrahimović, who's been catching everyone's attention lately with his blackout Adidas and Nike boots as well as his work for the World Food Programme. Ibrahimović is currently without a boot sponsorship following his contract with Nike ran out at the end of last year.

Apart from their target man, Paris Saint-Germain feature a fairly normal boot selection in their expected lineup, dominated by Nike (6 players) and Adidas (3 players), while Puma has one Paris player under contract in Marco Verratti, who's lacing up in the current pink evoSPEED paint job.

Chelsea Boot XI

This is the Chelsea team to face Paris in today's last-16 first leg.

Chelsea have their own 'brand-less' man in Diego Costa who has been sporting whiteout leather last-generation Adidas Adizero Boots the last few matches. Although Costa tried out Adidas Predator boots in one recent training session, he's played all matches since the infamous Liverpool League Cup tie in the whiteout Adizeros.

Interestingly, most of Chelsea's Nike players have been wearing boots from December's Nike Shine Trough collection, ditching the newer and Champions League exclusive Highlight Collection cleats. Only Thibaut Courtois has been lacing up in a newer paint job lately, wearing the black / blue / volt Nike Magista Opus football shoes released earlier this month.

Chelsea's strong midfield is powered by two Puma evoPOWER athletes in Nemanja Matić and Cesc Fàbregas, who are both donning the navy / pink second generation launch colorway.

Are you looking forward to tonight's matches? Should there be more players like Paul Pogba? Let us know in the comments below.

This article was created in cooperation with Football Boots Database. For boot lineups and detailed information about all soccer cleats from the top-5 leagues, visit www.footballbootsdb.com.