Having dropped out of the Champions League, PSG will have to start rebuilding from the beginning, writes Janne Palomäki.
Leo Messi was completely invisible in Munich. PDO
This play had already been performed in Paris until exhaustion.
The pride of the city PSG drops out prematurely once again in the Champions League.
The club has been counted as one of the early favorites in the Euro fields ever since the Emirate of Qatar took it over for good in March 2012.
The first attempt ended in the quarter-finals, where Leo Messi’s away goal at the Parc des Princes was enough for FC Barcelona to advance.
Messi played in a PSG shirt on Wednesday, but not many people remember seeing him at all on the Allianz Arena turf. Of course, the guests performed much more cheerfully than in the opening part, but there were very few scoring chances.
The best situation for the visitors came after a daring solo shot by Bayern goalkeeper Yann Sommer. Vitinha, who took possession of the ball, should have shot at full range, because the loose position gave Matthijs de Ligt the opportunity for a goal line save.
Otherwise, PSG’s game idea was based only on measuring Kylian Mbappé’s running potential. Mbappé played almost as badly as Messi.
At no point did the match turn into fireworks between two football titans. Bayern was content to play with the handbrake on, and PSG’s bench couldn’t find a new gear.
The final decision of the match pair was seen in the 61st minute, when Marco Verratti, who was left to incubate the ball, lost the game tool to Thomas Müller. Leon Goretzka passed it to Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, who doubled the Red Shirts’ lead.
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Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting shouted at the home crowd after the opening goal. PDO
Both Choupo-Mouting and Kingsley Coman, who scored the opening goal, are former PSG players. There where For emotional reasons, Coman did not want to air his goal at all, the Cameroonian shouted to the home crowd at full capacity.
Serge Gnabry completed the final coup d’état, and Bayern continues to the quarter-finals with a 3-0 aggregate goal.
Of course, PSG wins the French championship, but unfortunately it is not appreciated in practice at all in Qatar.
It’s no wonder. It is not appreciated anywhere else.
Because of that, the club management has to go back to the drawing board again. The head coach Christophe Galtier gets the boot, and at the same time the badly failed sporting director Luis Campos is also shown the front door.
But then what? Before Galtieri, Mauricio Pochettino, Thomas Tuchel, Unai Emery, Laurent Black and Carlo Ancelotti had failed in the job.
The name list shows that you simply cannot succeed in the task. At least not as long as the identity of the club and its values are unclear.
The truth is that this season’s team would have needed stricter discipline. In early February, Neymar had a wild birthday party just three days before the Le Classique clash (against Olympique Marseille).
Because of that, Kylian Mbappé had to publicly support his top pair.
– We just have to stay healthy, and that means we eat and sleep wellMbappé said after the first match against Bayern.
Neymar couldn’t even hold on to his health. An ankle problem will keep him sidelined until the start of next season. PSG has created his skin once again when the Brazilian next time jumps onto the training ground.
The new owners first set out to conquer Europe with a team built around the young Javier Pastore.
The guy is not left behind: the 33-year-old Argentinian is currently cooling off in the Qatar league.
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Bayern Munich’s Kingsley Coman (left) is a passionate PSG fan. PDO
According to rumors, the club boss Nasser Al-Khelaif is again interested in rejuvenating the group and calculating player profiles. The task is not too difficult if Messi switches to Europe’s MLS, Mbappé is sold to Madrid and Sergio Ramos quits.
Again, a new coach will be acquired from somewhere, who will get the same Champions League challenge with a lesser package.
Apparently, it doesn’t occur to the club management that At PSG, they would invest in their own youths and young people who were born directly as supporters of the club.
There are those. Coman played the full minutes on the grass of the Allianz Arena – in Bayern’s red shirt.