After the game, and with Madrid already in the quarterfinals, Nasser Al Khelaifi, the owner and president of Paris SG, went down to the Bernabéu locker room indignant. He wanted to get into that of the Dutch referee Danny Makkelie, whom he considered the main culprit in the downfall of his team. But he was wrong and entered another locker room causing, as revealed by Mónica Marchante in Vamos de Movistar +, moments of great tension in the bowels of the white stadium.
Leonard, sports director of the Parisian club, and Al Khelaifi They went down to the locker room entering into verbal discussions with a Madrid employee who was recording the scene with a mobile phone, as revealed by Cadena SER. They were insulting, both outraged with the decision made by the referee, who did not see what PSG considered “Benzema’s fault”, as he himself later described it Mauricio Pochettino.
The PSG leader was throwing fire through his mouth in a thesis that he later also defended Pochettino. “We have made mistakes, but the biggest mistake is made by the referee. It is a clear foul by Benzema, which is not whistled & rdquor ;, has denounced the Paris SG coach regarding the play that caused the 1-1 due to Donnarumma’s error. “How do I explain what happened? No, it’s not easy,” insisted the Argentine coach.
“The VAR is a shame when we see the action of the first goal. It is impossible not to talk about this rude mistake by the referees”
Pochettino, coach of Paris SG
I was outraged Pochettino. “Madrid’s first goal changed the game. I wonder what VAR does because there is a foul. It’s a shame, when you see the action, it’s a foul,” the coach said irritably in the interview with Canal + France.
“VAR is a shame when we see the action of the first goal. It is impossible not to talk about this rude mistake on the part of the referees. It is difficult to accept it. It is incredible that this happens in 2022”, the Paris SG coach reiterated.
“How do I explain what happened? No, it’s not easy. We haven’t known how to manage our emotions”
Pochettino, coach of Paris SG
“In a game like this, emotions and moods count. When you concede that goal, that nervousness and that feeling of injustice plays tricks on us”, he underlined. Pochettino.
“We have not known how to manage our emotions well. It cannot be explained, they are football things. We have been superior in the 180 minutes, but we have not materialized it in the details”, added the coach.
“My future? I live in the present. What has to be, will be. This is football, it’s a great disappointment. Now is the time to be calm and recover from this hard blow”, acknowledged the coach, assuming that already It has no future in the Parc des Princes. It is a matter, perhaps, of days. Or maybe weeks.
“It’s a blow. We can’t bury everything that has been done. It’s difficult to analyze. The foul on Donnarumma was decisive”
Leonardo, sporting director of Paris SG
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“It’s a blow. We can’t bury everything that has been done. It’s difficult to analyze. The episode of the foul on Donnarumma was decisive, but it was difficult for us to manage that moment,” Leonardo told RMC Sport.
“We lost control. We had to look for solutions. Afterwards, it’s a shame that an arbitration decision is decisive in these kinds of moments. But we had to stay calm. We made mistakes, we have to change those things, but we don’t have to review everything.” .