Eight years later, the spectrum of the Rontada-and this 6-1 defeat conceded to the Camp Nou de Barcelona in the round of 16 return from the Champions League after a 4-0 victory on the outburst of the Princes-always haunts the Parisian minds. And in particular those of its main actors.
At the time, Yann Guérin was one of the PSG press officers. On the RMC Sport Twitch channel this Thursday, the interested party remembers this painful episode, finding the genesis of the disaster in behaviors and little sentences heard before this terrible return match in Catalonia.
“Do you imagine if we take 6-0?” »»
“” We took such a slap. You tell yourself that you made mistakes at all levels. We did not see the wind of optimism coming which was born in Barcelona. Luis Enrique (Barça coach in 2017, editor's note) Was exceptional in terms of communication when we created problems alone. It started in the anti-doping room with Adrien Rabiot and Layvin Kurzawa who make the sign of 4-0… »»
The chambermaking seemed to be a good war then, but in the days that followed, doubt began to interfere in the Parisian heads. “” Some journalists have also asked: “You realize if you do not qualify, it is a failure …” We let this idea show out. There was also a video with four players (Marco Verratti, Julian Draxler, Thomas Meunier and Blaise Matuidi, underlines RMC) Who ate a pizza and who spoke between them, between friends: “Do you imagine if we take 6-0?” »You give birth to this seed in your brain “, Dixit a Yann Guérin thus punctuating the subject:” We made mistakes. We may have been a bit lax. »»
