The curse of PSG in the Champions League It seems to have no end. The team of Luis Enrique was eliminated from the competition again, despite being the favorite on paper, after losing 1-0 (2-0 on aggregate) at home against the Borussia Dortmund in the Parc des Princes.
Neymar, Lionel Messi, Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, Mauro Icardi, Marco Verrati. There were many world football stars who left the club without being able to give the fans the long-awaited trophy. Now, everything seems to be that it will be the turn of Kylian Mbappéwho would have played his last continental tournament with the Parisian team, according to the announcement he made on February 15.
The French forward, precisely, was the protagonist of a curious episode after his team’s elimination. While they were still trying to digest the bitter defeat, the former Monaco He showed his face and showed up in a mixed zone, where a group of journalists soon approached him. That’s when he heard a question he wasn’t expecting.
“Will you support Real Madrid tomorrow or not?”, one of the reporters asked him. Upon hearing those words, the footballer’s reaction was automatic. She looked up, made eye contact with him, and didn’t utter a single word. However, with a gesture he said it all.
Although everything seems that Mbappé will wear white from July, when his contract with PSG ends, the 25-year-old player is aware that still belongs to the Parisian team and that he had just suffered a painful defeat to be thinking about the future.
“We are disappointed, we wanted to qualify for the final“But in the Champions League you have to be effective in both areas and in that aspect they have been better than us,” acknowledged the Frenchman, who will leave PSG at the end of the season after seven years. He also insisted that they are “disappointed for the fans, for our families, but this is how it is. It is a long process, we have shown that we can go far“I think this club is not far from winning a Champions League.”
“It is clear that “It is my last game in Europe this season.”ironized before continuing to analyze the duel: “We wanted to put all the ingredients in place to win, but in direct elimination matches in the Champions League we have to be effective and we have not been effective enough in the two games.”
He also rejected that his team was overconfident: “If you don’t think you can win, no one will do it for you. I don’t think that was the problem, the group was calm from the beginning of the season, but that’s how football is. “Not everything has been bad and we still have goals like the Cup final. We are going to continue working and try to achieve win it,” he added.
On the other side of the Champions League bracket, the real Madrid and the Bayern Munich They will play the second leg to see who reaches the long-awaited final. You meringues and teutons They tied 2-2 in the first leg in Germany and everything will be decided at the legendary Santiago Bernabéu. Although the locals are the favorites on paper, they will have to play the 90 minutes to find out the other finalist of the most important competition in the world at the club level.
