PSG in danger in C1: Luis Enrique disillusioned: “It’s inexplicable and unfair”

PSG coach Luis Enrique said Paris was “without a doubt” in danger for its qualification for the round of 16 of the Champions League after its “inexplicable” defeat against Atlético Madrid (2-1).

“Without a doubt,” replied the Spanish coach when asked if Paris was threatened, adding that this defeat is “inexplicable” and “unfair”. “I would have to watch this match again but really, it’s inexplicable what happened during these three matches. I would say that the words that come to us are ‘inexplicable’ and ‘unfair’,” he said, also including the club’s last two outings in C1, at Arsenal (2-0 defeat) and against PSV Eindhoven. (1-1).

According to him, “it’s a bad joke” to have only four points as PSG “continues to be better than the opponents but it’s very difficult to explain this series of three matches”. “It’s time to analyze the match and get back up” and “we have four matches left, we will qualify otherwise measures will be taken,” he explained, specifying that his players “are affected” but that he continues to “protect” them. “How would it be possible not to be affected?” he insisted.

“The goal (of Madrid’s victory, in added time, Editor’s note), is a bad joke. They never came close to our goal and that’s the effect,” he said. As for his team’s offensive difficulties, to a journalist mentioning the absence of a scorer, he replied: “Bring him to me if you have him, this attacker. Where do I get this attacker from? When I fail, it will be with my own ideas and not those of a journalist.”

Diego Simeone: “Paris was better than us but…”

For his part, Atlético Madrid coach Diego Simeone praised the efficiency of his team unlike the match lost at home against Lille (3-1) the previous day. “Against Lille, we had a lot of scoring chances but we didn’t score enough. Today, it was quite the opposite, we attacked little but we converted two goal actions,” he noted.

“The game of possession, the combinations and the collective is very beautiful, but what makes you win a match is precision,” he underlined, adding that “Paris was better than us but we , we had the success that we did not have against Lille.

Asked about Antoine Griezmann’s complicated match, the Argentinian technician of the Colchoneros replied that the second goal, at the end of the match, came from the Frenchman: “sometimes he plays better and is finer in the game but he is not decisive “, he said. The opposite happened Wednesday evening.