
Navas has started 34 games in all competitions this season, including eight in the Champions League, but he has been ruled out of the Leipzig tie with a hamstring injury.
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That was on-loan stopper Rico’s ninth appearance of the season and Herrera has backed the former Fulham loanee – and two-time Europa League winner with Sevilla – to step up.
Herrera started the Atalanta match but was taken off before his side staged a dramatic fightback, the Ligue 1 giants scoring twice in the space of 149 seconds to stay on course for a quadruple.
“Since I arrived in Paris the captain is Thiago Silva so I haven’t thought about this question,” Herrera, who joined from Manchester United last year, said. “For me, the captain is not only the one who wears the armband.
“Keylor Navas has won a lot in his career and always tries to create a compact group. “Thiago Silva is a fantastic leader and captain but all the groups which know the success, it is not possible with only one leader. We have many leaders with the word but also with the action.”
“Domestically we have won four titles,” he said. “Winning the Champions League is a dream but we cannot speak of an obligation to win. Every year there are a dozen teams that do not win. It is a dream but not a pressure.”