Until this semi-final of the Champions League between PSG and Arsenal, the club of the capital had never beat the Gunners in five confrontations, having to settle for two meager draws in five matches. The two clubs had notably faced each other in the semi-finals of the deceased champion club cup in 1994. And three weeks after eliminating Real Madrid for the second time in two years, PSG hoped to continue against the residents of Highbury.
Las, after having had to be satisfied with a draw at the Parc des Princes on the outward journey, the red and blue bit the dust on the return, surprised from the first minutes of the match by a head at the first post of Kevin Campbell. The men of Artur Jorge were going to push to equalize, multiplying the opportunities, they were too clumsy to deceive David Seaman and equalize. What leave immense regrets on the Parisian side.
“It's terrible. I still have trouble achieving. Our lack of efficiency is very expensive. It's a bitter feeling that lives me tonight ”, In particular, regrets Michel Denisot, the president of PSG at the end of the meeting. And the regrets are all the greater since Artur Jorge decided for this return match to spend services from Georges Weah, his best attacker, preferring Raï, who nevertheless experiences a complicated acclimatization in Paris. The Brazilian will also miss two big opportunities on the Highbury lawn and the choice of the Portuguese technician will be castigated by Bernard Lama at the end of the meeting.
PSG players did not understand
“To win, you have to score goals. They never put us in danger, but all our attackers were on the sidelines … “, he launches, particularly bitter. And more than thirty years after this fatal evening, misunderstanding is still in betting in Parisians.
“If we had Weah, we won. He was in full swing ”, thus entrusted Patrick Colleter in the columns of
The team. “Everyone asked the question: why?” We had to mark … “, abounded Laurent Fournier while Daniel Bravo even mentioned an act of sabotage: “Our best player on the bench and Raï a center-forward!” Here, we say to ourselves 'he went crazy'. The current did not pass between them … Jeai had the impression that he saboto the thing. »»
Recently, David Ginola had revealed that Artur Jorge had wanted to try “A bet”. “I went to see Denis Troch to ask him why he did that. It was a bet. Husbands to want to surprise your opponents too much, you take the risk of taking your own team on the wrong foot ”, He had explained.
