It’s historic. This Wednesday evening, PSG did the job against Bayern Munich (1-1) and therefore validated its ticket for the Champions League final for the second year in a row. The Parisians displayed a collective strength that was still very impressive and left Bayern Munich with almost no chance. From now on, for the Parisian team, eyes will be fixed on the final against Arsenal on May 30. Under the leadership of Luis Enrique, PSG could considerably increase its record and write a little more French football history.
And after today’s meeting, the Parisian players quickly showed their determination at the idea of ​​recovering a second star in a row. Arsenal has been warned, PSG still arrives pumped up despite last year’s success. “Tonight was a victory where we all fought for each other. We showed a great state of mind. In this type of match, we don’t need to add a lot of things, these are matches where we are naturally overmotivated. It is for these matches that we have played football since we were little. We dream of it. We attacked, we defended very well as a team. Defend our title against Arsenal? Nah, we’re going there to win, not to defend anything. We’re going there to win.”launched DĂ©sirĂ© DouĂ© before moving on.
Motivation is intact
“An advantage of having played a final last year? Yes, of course, after last year, we went there without having won before that. We will be overmotivated, it’s a C1 final. And each final is different. Anything can happen, but first we will focus on Ligue 1 to win the title and then we will have time to focus on the final. It’s you who says every time that there are hard times, less hard times. We won, so it’s going to be ecstatic, but we’re not getting excited“. A speech shared by Fabian Ruiz. “Play a new final? It’s not easy. Playing two finals in two years is very difficult. Coming here against Bayern, they are a very high level team. It’s a lot of work and we are very happy to play this final and we hope to win it too because we worked a lot for it. But we have to recover and think about the championship because we want to be champions too. But we are going to go to Budapest to win this second final.»
For his part, captain Marquinhos also wanted to reassure the supporters, the players are already focused on the final objective and driven by the idea of ​​experiencing emotions similar to last season. “We work all year to experience emotions like this at the end of the season. That’s our mentality. We have to keep the right mentality, we have objectives to achieve and now our objective is to achieve the second Champions League. I realize what we’re doing. All the years I’ve spent, I know how hard it is. The younger ones perhaps don’t realize too much because they have only lived these three years. Me, with all the journey, I realize. It was my 5th semi-final in 13 years, my 3rd final. We played against very high level teams, against Bayern it was the most difficult. They took us out of our comfort zone and that’s good because we see what we need to improve. If we managed to get through this course, we can do great things and win this final.” Arsenal has been warned, PSG is already fully focused on the final and will therefore give everything to win a second Champions League.
