Every year, the same disillusionment can be seen on the faces of Parisian players. And although this time the football gods were certainly not on their side, the opportunity to go all the way had rarely been so good. The fault lies in a double anecdotal performance from several stars, but also in the four amounts touched during the return leg.
This taste of unfinished business made the front page of the French press this Wednesday morning. Ouest France quips ironically: “Paris remains Paris, unfortunately… And if he takes great pleasure in getting into trouble in Ligue 1, he still cannot systematically rise in the moments that count in Europe”.
On the team side, we especially highlight the poor performances of two key players: Ousmane Dembélé and Kylian Mbappé. They received a score of 2/10, affirming that the two attackers “missed their match”. Still in daily sports, we talk about “ a flame that has gone out”. The article explains the reasons for this failure: “All the conditions for the feat were met. A single goal behind to make up for a team which had only remained silent twice in its last 38 receptions in C1 (93 goals scored), that was nothing insurmountable. Parisian freshness and confidence should have made the difference against an opponent dropped in the Bundesliga (5th). But nothing happened as planned, at different levels the executives disappointed, which was fatal to the partners of Kylian Mbappé, the first concerned by this failure”.
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“An elimination that hurts so much”
The hangover also has difficulty passing among our colleagues at Le Parisien. “The disappointment lived up to the expectations”, speaking of a Parisian team perhaps too confident before the start of the meeting. “Defeated at home by BVB, Paris said goodbye to its dreams of the Champions League final. At the end of a poorly controlled double confrontation, he rarely gave the feeling of being able to meet his ambitions and the disappointment lived up to expectations”.
So Foot, in his usual style, symbolizes this difficult Parisian night with one word: “regret”. “What’s funny about PSG is this ball of contradictions that has constantly taken place around it since it was taken over by the Qataris in 2011. For the third time in five years, PSG reached the last four. of the Champions League. A great performance? Certainly. At the start of this 2023-2024 season, many would have signed with both hands to find themselves there. However, it is in an ocean of regrets that all Parisian supporters are swimming this Tuesday evening, devastated by Dortmund and convinced that there was another way, another end, to this European epic that the vast majority saw themselves in. kiss all the way to London where the final will be played on June 1st. Without Paris, therefore”.
