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From our special envoy to Birmingham,
Fox corpse, abandoned strollers, burned tires, hundreds of plastic packaging … Due to a huge scabs of garbage collectors, nearly 17,000 tonnes of waste has been decorating for more than a month that did not need that to be inhospitable. But, Tuesday evening, in Birmingham, it is not the effluve emanating from these thousands of waste that came to tickle our nostrils, but another well -known smell of Parisian supporters: fear.
However, everything had been (well) done so that it remains far from Villa Park. A 3-1 victory in the Champions League quarter-first leg last week, with a last goal in stopping games to shoot down a little more morale of the Villans and then a thunderous start to the PSG in England: Achraf Hakimi (11th) and Nuno Mendes (27th) to cool the English stadium a bit, where the rain and the wind had not succeeded in their business.
No need to be Cédric Villani to have the result: it was therefore half an hour of 5-1 game in total for Parisians. Suffice to say that the qualification for the semi-finals was ensured. It was certain, certain. Everyone was already jumped with joy, like Luis Enrique in front of his (small) technical zone with his staff, the 2,400 Parisian supporters who crossed the Channel already looked on Opodo the best prices to go to London or Madrid for the half. 133 km/h on the KIF motorway.
How do you say « remontada » ?
Except that all this good people forgot that Paris was Paris. And that nothing could be simple. Never. Even when all the lights are green and the traffic is blocked to let you pass. And the reduction of the gap in the scoring of the villans in the first period by the Belgian Youri Tielemans after a loss of a silly ball of KHVICHA KVAratskhelia in the midfield, should have already had to be a first alert signal. It was not.
“You have to be demanding, especially on matches like this. We made the task difficult on our own, conceded at the microphone of Canal+ Ousmane Dembélé, once again a little next to his pumps. We completely relaxed in the second half. We thought we were too beautiful and already qualified at 2-1. And that almost turned against them, after ten minutes spent in the laundry of the Claret & Blue.
“There was an excess of confidence prohibited at this level,” said Luis Enrique at a press conference. When there were 0-2, the villans were KO but there was a phase of loss of balloons, an excess of confidence prohibited at this level, it gives oxygen to the opponent. The end of the first half did not please me, we were not in terms of the requirements of the Champions League, we conceded animal goals, Aston Villa returned, in two minutes. »»
Asensio close to killing his former club
As Unai Emery was going to take out his captain Josh McGinn in particular, he had the pleasure of a small solo ride, without being attacked, from his camp to the outskirts of the Parisian surface, before sending a loudre strike (55th). Folie in Villa Park, before the foundations of one of the oldest English stadiums saw their last day arriving on the third goal of Ezri Konsa (57th) after a Marcus Rashord festival.
A player who has to go out who scores, then another who makes the dribbles of his life when he could have signed at PSG in the transfer window, was obviously checked in the Bingo PSG. Like seeing his defender (Pacho) and his most reliable midfielder (Vitinha) become all feverish at the most important moment. Panic was total in the Parisian ranks, where no one seemed to hold the boat.
“For several minutes there is the difficult feeling of not knowing whether to keep the ball, get out from behind and by the middle, if you have to play long,” said the former Barça coach. We have never been so dominated in my memory, it is a time when the opponent has nothing to lose, they were very intense and superior. Everything was gathered to relive a new trauma, eight years after the Rontada inflicted by Barça in Unai Emery.
Completed DNA of “losses” in Europe?
It was only missing the purpose of the ex. So when Marco Asensio, loaned by PSG, came into play shortly after the hour of play, all Parisian fans knew the finished part and the well -completed bingo grid. It only took four minutes for the old n ° 11 of PSG to be found on its own, after a new Pacho error, in front of the goal to prove all the ominous birds. Except that, no, not this time, the Rouetourne was going to turn.
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To finally change the fate of an entire club, Marco Asensio saw his shot be rejected by Gianluigi Donnarumma again imperial and decisive at Villa Park, in the wake of his big outing in Anfield. The turning point of the meeting, the very turn of the continuation of the adventures of PSG in Europe? “It is a match that allows you to grow,” soberly commented Luis Enrique, who was relieved as not possible when crossing certain PSG employees in the mixed zone.
Growing up and therefore coming back for a second semi-final of the Champions League in a row. For, this time, no longer having 45 shots, including 18 on the uprights as in front of Borussia Dortmund last season, or not seeing Kylian Mbappé, if Real Madrid succeeds in the comeback of the century against Arsenal this Wednesday, returning to its land incurred a five -lip. No, this time, the fate of PSG has changed. It only remains to lift the cup with big ears in Munich. It will then feel very good.
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