PSG keep Champions League bid alive, despite old ghosts reappearing
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Paris Saint-Germain players celebrate with the trophy after winning the French Champions' Trophy (Trophee des Champions) final football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and AS Monaco (ASM) at the Stadium 974 in Doha on January 5, 2025.—AFP
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PARIS: Paris is on a bid course to win the first Champions League’s first Champions League, but French giants survived only a riding against Austin Villa only on Tuesday as the old ghosts fell near them.
Louis Enrique’s party has won the pledes for a thrilling style played in recent months and has gone to the second round of his quarter -finals during a defeat in 30 matches. The only disadvantage came to Liverpool’s house in the first phase of the last 16 and overturned a week later, before he defeated Villa 3-1 in Park Des Prince.
So when he found himself above 2-0 before the half-hour mark in Birmingham on Tuesday, the breakway round through full backs and Nuno Mendes put them ahead of a total of 5-1, the tie was visible to the last four with a PSG tour.
Then he allowed his Premier League opponents to be pulling back ahead of half -time and then allowed John McGin and Ezri to score two goals in three minutes at the beginning of the second half.
With the swinging of visitors, the villa was needed just another goal to force the vils at extra time, and they would have found it, but PSG’s goalkeeper Gian Logi Donarromma and Villen Pacho had some big savings by a major block.
“I think when the intensity level is 2-0, we need to eliminate these small mistakes for the semi-finals as you can pay a heavy price,” Captain Marconus told Broadcaster Canal Plus.
Brazilian knows that is better than anyone. At the age of 30, he is the elderly politician of the youngest team in the Champions League this season, and has many unpleasant memories of his competition with the club in 2013.
In 2017, there could be no more painful than a 6-1 defeat in Barcelona, which came after winning 4-0 in the PSG house-Barbed needed to score three goals in the 88th minute, and did so with the end of the PSG.
That night the coach of Paris was a Greek Emery, with Louis Enrique on the Barcelona bench. Fast forward for eight years and both of them have been encountered again, after which PSG is now in charge.
“You can never trust too much, as the football match can change immediately,” Louis Enrique confessed after Tuesday’s game. Whether it has been happy or just nerves, PSG has eliminated other catastrophic elimination in Europe, including Manchester United in 2019 and Real Madrid in 2022.
– Four Semi- in six years –
This time the difference is that they held for the passage, and now they are waiting for the semi -finals against real Madrid or any of the weapons. “We can taste it because it is always difficult to go to the Champions League semi -finals,” said Louis Enrique. This is the second consecutive year and we are very happy. “
A year ago, PSG lost to Borosia Dartmond in Sammy. Kylon has left for Embippe, but Louis Enrique, despite the second half of Tuesday, has succeeded in strengthening Qatar -backed team without it.
The coach said, “There were a lot of doubts about the team, but I think the team is even better than last year and we will fight until the end of every trophy.” This is the fourth Champions League semi -final of the PSG in six seasons, only two years in which they failed to go to the last four to come in 2022 and 2023.
These were the years in which Lionel Messi was in his attack with Neymar and MBP. The superstar’s point of view did not achieve the success they expected, and the current aspect is undoubtedly more impressive.
He has not lost domestic game since last May, he has already won the title of Lego 1 and is in the French Cup final. However, it is still not easy for PSG to step into the continent competitions.
Tuesday’s defeat was fifth in 14 matches of the Champions League in this season, and from the beginning of the last campaign, they had the 10th loss in 26 games in Europe. New Castle United is the fourth Premier League team to beat PSG after Arsenal and Liverpool. And the weapons can be up again.
