PSG plays tomorrow (9pm) at the Parc des Princes. The Parisian team must overcome Füllkrug’s goal in the first leg in Dortmund if they want to qualify for the Champions League final. He needs two goals to be at Wembley on June 1, but Luis Enrique does not want to approach it this way: “If you think that, qualification is far away. You don’t have to mark two, you have to mark one. Two goals are scored in three seconds, but you can also concede them.” “There is nothing wrong with conceding a goal as we saw against Barça,” the Spanish coach downplayed the importance.
For Luis Enrique it is important to take pressure off the players: “The scoreboard indicates that we are eliminated, but the idea is to play in the same way. “It is not going to change our mentality at all,” he assures, and predicts “a match similar to the first leg.”
The Asturian coach is convinced that they will win: “It’s the only phrase I know in French, ‘on va a gagner’,” he joked with the journalists, with whom he also joked about “a very Spanish question,” “always looking for the negative.” . Asked by the Spanish press whether PSG’s elimination from the Champions League would be a failure for the Parisian club, Luis Enrique responded: “Life goes on, the sun will rise. If we do not pass we will congratulate the rival, even if he does not deserve it, and we will get up.”
The Signal Iduna Park was a pressure cooker in the first leg and Luis Enrique wants to repeat that great atmosphere tomorrow in Paris to push his team to the comeback: “Tomorrow is going to be vital, as it has been throughout the entire season.” season. “It’s not something common, the atmosphere in Dortmund was very nice and here I hope it will be the same.”
Marquinhos also joined this call: “We know that people can change the game with their energy. “I come from Brazil where football is our life and it is something that happens a little with the PSG fans.”
The PSG captain, who will play his third semi-final with the club, is confident in the comeback and remembers the match against Barça: “There was calm and now we see that that was something very important. We conceded a goal against Barça, but we continued with our idea. The club grows and evolves more and more.”
“This season we have more experience because we know what happened in 2020 when we played in the final and didn’t win. “Now it’s a different situation,” he said before warning that they must be “100% because football moves very fast and you always have to be focused on the next game.”
