Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Wednesday November 27, 2024 at 9:12 a.m.
Sent off shortly before the hour mark for a second yellow card during PSG's defeat in Munich (0-1), Ousmane Dembélé precipitated the defeat of his team and was not spared by his coach.
What would have happened if Ousmane Dembélé had not been sent off prematurely on Tuesday evening in Munich? We will never know, but what is certain is that, without him, for the last half hour and even a little more, PSG recorded its third defeat of the season in the Champions League against Bayern ( 0-1), and the eighth in the competition since the arrival of Luis Enrique in the summer of 2023. And now the Parisians are 26th out of 34, and virtually eliminated from the C1 before three final decisive days.
First warned for insulting Istvan Kovacs (37th), the Romanian referee of this match, before the corner leading to the only goal of the match, signed by South Korean defender Kim Min-Jae, the 2018 world champion received a second yellow card (56th), very severe, and therefore a red, for an uncontrolled tackle in the Bavarian area on the Canadian Alphonso Davies, barely touched and who added more tons.
“After the red, it became difficult”
“After the red, it became difficult to make the physical efforts, they had an extra player,” Vitinha then lamented at the microphone of Canal+Foot. Luis Enrique, who also did not try to evade his responsibilities and took responsibility for his still confusing choices, pointed out Dembélé's “serious error”, while the Parisians had restarted well after returning from the locker room.
“There were some reasons to hope at the start of the second half. We generated a little more danger during the first 15-20 minutes, then the expulsion arrived and reduced everything to nothing,” lamented the Spanish technician in a press conference. It was a big mistake on our part. Playing with ten men made things very difficult. However, we stayed in the match until the end. doubt.”
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