By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 3 minutes ago, Updated 2 minutes ago
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Luis Campos FRANCK FIFE / AFP
The president of PSG spoke before his team’s historic meeting against BVB in the semi-final second leg of the Champions League.
“The players are focused, confident, but not too much” before the semi-final return of the Champions League against Dortmund on Tuesday, declared Monday the president of Paris SG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, who is counting on the “12th man”the supporters of the Parc des Princes, to push the team.
The Parisians must erase the defeat in Dortmund last Wednesday (1-0) to play the final at Wembley and hope to win the most prestigious European competition for the first time. “The players are focused, confident, but not too much. Too confident is not good”declared to journalists including AFP the president of the club, who had just attended training on Monday at midday at the PSG Campus in Poissy (Yvelines).
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi strongly believes in the advantage of the Parc des Princes
“It’s the Champions League, a semi-final, it’s impossible to be too confident. We must not forget that it is a very young team, the youngest in the semi-finals of the Champions League.he added.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi insisted on the“importance of the atmosphere in the stadium tomorrow”: the supporters will be “our 12th man”. “If I had the right, I would remove all the seats from the Parc des Princes tomorrow”, so that the audience is standing, he smiled. The leader warned that in “a Champions League semi-final, every detail (had) its importance”. “Tomorrow we represent PSG, Paris, but also France, and all our supporters all over the world”he also said.
“We also built something for the future. I am very proud of it”
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi
But he also looked beyond Tuesday’s meeting: “We also built something for the future. I am very proud of it”. Coach Luis Enrique is one of the satisfactions of the season for the club, which will nevertheless have to manage the announced departure of its superstar Kylian Mbappé this summer.
