PSG trainer Luis Enrique admitted without any difficulty that the opponent was better. “I don’t think we won rightly, given the first eighty minutes. Tottenham was in shape and deserved the victory, we were very lucky,” the Spaniard said TNT Sports. Yet he was also complimented towards his team. “My players went through the fire until the last minute.”
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Enrique will mainly vote to satisfy, because PSG had an extra short summer break as a result of the World Cup for clubs, in which it reached the final. “We are only in training for six days. In the first minute I already saw that we were not in the rhythm and gave careless passes. It is actually a miracle that we looked so good.”
Lucas Chevalier
Enrique also spoke his praise for Lucas Chevalier. The 23-year-old goalkeeper made his debut for the French superpower after being taken over from Lille OSC this summer. At the goal of Christian Romero, Chevalier did not look too good, but in the decisive penalty series he became the hero by turning Micky van de Ven’s efforts.
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“Lucas showed character and that is important if you want to be a player of Paris Saint-Germain. It says a lot of pressure,” says Enrique. “Moreover, he closed the competition well. A debut is never easy, but Lucas did well.”