Real Madrid 3-1 PSG They believe that this is more serious than Barcelona’s comeback
The French press charged against PSG after the elimination in the round of 16 of the Champions League. “Irrational”, headlined ‘L’Equipe’ with a photograph of Messi crestfallen. “Finalist two years ago, semi-finalist last season, PSG comes out of the knockout stages of the Champions League this season. It is a terrible disappointment for the club, which had an advantage after the first leg (1-0) and sent the rest (0-1), dominator and owner of the tempo, but he collapsed in the second half, reminding, to a lesser extent, of another Spanish disaster, the one experienced against Barcelona, five years ago in the same stage of the competition (4- 0; 1-6). Karim Benzema’s hat-trick, in a state of grace, cannot explain everything”, writes the French medium.
“And Paris sank”, headlined ‘Le Parisien’, thus describing the defeat: “PSG sank at the Bernabu. This is the story of a match that dominated for an hour, giving Real a lesson in possession, preservation, and envy before that serenity collapsed on its own., like a house of cards, and only because of him”. He also criticized Donnarumma’s “monumental blunder” that “revived the Madrileños”. “This elimination should never have happened. His small mentality was the difference”, said ‘Le Parisien’ which in his analysis speaks of “Pochettino’s departure and Leonardo’s weakness”.
In RMC, the former player Petit was blunt: “We saw it after Real Madrid’s draw. Everything collapsed very quickly. There were no longer the same reference points or the same serenity on the pitch. The players were desperate in a few minutes. And we are talking about players who have a track record, who have personality… I am very angry because for me what has just happened is unprofessional. It’s even more serious than what happened against the Bara”.
