Paris Saint-Germain is not doing well in the semi-finals of the Champions League, and this was also confirmed in this year’s edition of the millionaire competition. Yesterday, the French team played its seventh semi-final and recorded its sixth defeat, for the second time in six days it was not enough against Dortmund.
PSG were the favorites and broke their teeth on the Westphalian defense twice. They lost 0:1 in both cases, defender Mats Hummels was the only one to score yesterday.
“I feel great sadness, nothing else. We failed to meet our goal,” a disappointed coach Luis Enrique told reporters.
The home team had more of the game and repeatedly failed to finish, their failure is documented by the fact that they scored two posts and two crossbars on Tuesday alone. They blew the goal structure twice already last week and in one year of the millionaire competition they “succeeded” fourteen times, thus setting a new LM record.
“I don’t think we were worse, we hit the back of the net six times. Football is sometimes not fair and that’s the strange thing about it, we produced 31 shots and didn’t concede a single goal. We have to accept that, congratulate our opponents for reaching the final and getting despite my own disappointment,” the Spanish coach, who won the Champions League with Barcelona nine years ago, continued his assessment.
“I am very proud of my team, there is no doubt about that. I am the coach and therefore the first person who is responsible for the defeat, but I am happy with the attitude and behavior of all my players.” he added.
The Parisians recently secured another championship title and will have the opportunity to add one more trophy at the end of the season. They stayed in the French Cup, and on May 25th, an improving Lyon will stand in their way.
“We lacked efficiency. Dortmund scored two goals, one from a corner and the other after a long pass behind the defense. We should have looked after both situations, it’s exactly the details that make the decision. We can take a lot of positive things from both games. Nobody in the autumn He didn’t believe that we could go this far and we got to the semi-finals. We have a new project with a new coach. We can take a lot of positives to the next season. We wanted to make the finals, even if it is very difficult,” snapped Captain Marquinhos.
“It’s so hard to even talk at this point. We gave it our all and I’d like to thank the fans, they were incredible. We left it all and unfortunately it wasn’t enough. I don’t know what to say about it.” midfielder Vitinha joined.
