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Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with the keyboard in hand than with the ball on his feet, he decides to mainly cover a beloved sport, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
In March 2019, Paris Saint-Germain experienced new disappointment in the Champions League with their elimination against Manchester United, despite their victory at Old Trafford in the first leg. Five years later, Gianluigi Buffon returned to this failure and believes that the team had not prepared well for this meeting.
Before its epic during the Final 8 (2020) then its two semi-finals in the Champions League in 2021 and 2024, PSG experienced several European disappointments during the Qatari era. There is obviously the comeback facing the FC Barcelona (2017), but also the terrible disillusionment experienced on March 6, 2019 on the lawn of the Parc des Princes. Winner in the round of 16 first leg (2-0), the PSG bowed to Manchester United on the return (1-3) with a penalty of Marcus Rashford in added time.
“I didn’t say it…”
Gianluigi Buffon had not been free from all reproaches in this match, with a hand fault on a shot from Marcus Rashford well taken up by Romelu Lukaku. A bad memory mentioned by the Italian in his autobiography, revealing that he had anticipated the fiasco: “ We won 2-0 in Manchester against United. I understood that we were not preparing the return in the right way. But I didn't say it: after all, I was the last to arrive, maybe I still had a provincial mentality, they were all champions, Mbappé had just won the World Cup… »
“We had not prepared well for the return match”
The match then took place as the 2006 world champion had feared. We immediately conceded a goal from a defensive error, the second was also the fault of an imprecise clearance on my part, we then took the third and were eliminated. We had not prepared well for the return match “, explain Buffonreported by CulturePSG. The doorman will only stay one season in the capital, before returning to the Juventus.
