PSG boss Nasser Al-Khelaifi apparently loses his nerve after being beaten by Real – trouble with referees
LEONARDO NASSER AL KHELAIFI PSG
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Bad loser? PSG boss Nasser Al-Khelaifi is said to have freaked out after the CL bankruptcy at Real Madrid.
PSG boss Nasser Al-Khelaifi apparently lost his nerve at Real Madrid after the dramatic end of Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League round of 16. According to the UEFA report on the events surrounding the game, Al-Khelaifi behaved “aggressively” like sporting director Leonardo.
After the 3-1 defeat, the two tried to storm referee Danny Makkelie’s cabin. The Dutchman asked to be left alone, after which the duo blocked the door. Al-Khelaifi then even flapped an assistant’s flag, after which it broke through.
According to media reports, however, this incident did not end there. “Everything got out of hand,” she wrote Brand regarding the incident at the referee’s booth.
According to the club, the scene was filmed by a Real employee, whereupon Al-Khelaifi said to him: “I’ll kill you.” The employee did not comply with Leonardo’s request to delete the video and instead sent it to UEFA.
Before Al-Khelaifi made it to the referee, he was from the TV station, according to Spanish journalist Monica Marchante Movistar first landed at Real kit manager Megia Davila. Loud Cadena COPE he is also said to have shouted at uninvolved people and thrown objects around on the way to the referee.
Bodyguards calm Al-Khelaifi
His bodyguards were able to calm him down, but there are said to have been fisticuffs. In addition, the police had been called in. During the game he was loud Brand “Already broken everything that is considered the minimum standard of behavior in a Lodge”.
The stumbling block was when Karim Benzema made it 1-1. According to Leonardo, he “clearly fouled” PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma before his first of three goals.
PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino described the scene as “Shame: It’s not possible not to talk about this serious mistake. It can’t be that something like this happens in 2022. We dominated for 60 minutes, the goal changed everything. We made mistakes. But the clearest mistake was made by VAR.”
Leonardo added dejectedly: “At half-time we were convinced that we were the better team and that we were coming with a team that could win the competition. If something happens, we have to think about it and think about why it happened, but for that we need time. This is a heavy blow.”
