PSG seems to have digested its coronation in the Champions League. Fifteen days after its historic victory in the C1 final against Inter Milan (5-0), the capital's club indeed offered a new recital against Atletico Madrid for its entry into the brand new club World Cup.
Despite the absences of Ousmane Dembélé and Bradley Barcola, both injured with the French team during the League of Nations, and stifling heat, the French champions took it 4-0 after a controlled meeting from start to finish.
Questioned at the end of the game, Koke did not have the same reading of the match. According to him, the score did not reflect the content of the debates in no way and the captain of the Colchoneros did not hesitate to denounce the arbitration of Mr. Istvan Kovacs, the same one who had already arbitrated the final of the Champions League between PSG and Inter Milan.
PSG downstream?
“We knew it would be difficult, but for me, 4-0, it's not fair. While we could have equalized at 1-1 thanks to the shot from Griezmann, it was 2-0. It's a blow. The team tried to push. We created opportunities. We even scored for 2-1, but he was refused with a fault: if he wants to whistle it, he will whistle it, and if he does not want to whistle it, he will not whistle it. ,, heaped the Spanish midfielder. We all saw what happened, where the little details were going. The boxes? You have all seen it. Some mistakes are worth a yellow card, others not, but it always fell on the same side. »»
“The team had started well, but we know the level of PSG. It is not for nothing that they are European champions ”,
He took the trouble to specify to pay tribute to the Parisians. But Koke was not the only one to blame the referee in the Madrid ranks. The bell sound was the same in Jan Oblak's mouth.
“At a key moment, the referee's decisions were not favorable to us, but it was football. PSG is probably the most fit team in the world. They punish you at the slightest opportunity and they won 4-0, so we cannot complain too much with this score. The fault can be whistled or not, it is possible, I do not see well. When they whistled it, the Var decided it was the case. I don't understand the yellow cards, he deplored. The red card on Lenglet was a fault on me, and then he expelled one of our players. It is difficult to play eleven against eleven against PSG, so the last minutes, ten players, were very complicated. ”
