Champions League: "Neymar completely got through his final"

PSG will wait to win their first Champions League. The Parisians were beaten one to zero by Bayern Munich in the final this Sunday evening in Lisbon. For Virginie Phulpin, it was first the stars Neymar and Mbappé who caused the loss of PSG.  

We thought they would be the saviors, that they were cut out for this final. It was their date. A missed appointment in large widths. For Virginie Phulpin, they are the main players in the Parisian defeat. Neymar completely got through his final, Kylian Mbappé a little less, but he never found a solution against Manuel Neuer. The Bayern keeper will surely give him nightmares for a while. He ate her brain until it was completely harmless. Because he had opportunities, Mbappé. PSG knew how to create them. We're not going to see everything in black all at once. This defeat is absolutely not shameful. The Parisians looked Bayern Munich eye-to-eye during the first half, and that's already a lot. But normally, players of the level of Mbappé and Neymar, they are there to have that little extra thing that turns a meeting upside down. That's why they were recruited at a high price. Not to win a national cup. PSG don't need them for that. And there, we saw these cracks turn into erased little boys. I understand Neymar's tears at the end. He necessarily realizes that a player of his caliber cannot miss a Champions League final like that. Not him ! Virginie Phulpin almost wants to say that he has no right, it's almost professional misconduct.  

It is still especially Bayern Munich who made the Parisian stars harmless.

Yes, of course, but not only. Yes Bayern is used to these meetings, yes this team has marched all over Europe this season, and yes, above all, they have an impressive collective strength. What Paris did not have last night. It's annoying, because this collective strength, we saw it at PSG in the semi-finals in particular. Kylian Mbappé and Neymar seemed to have understood that it was together, all together, that they could win. But what is possible against Leipzig is not possible against a big European. And this Sunday evening in the second half, there was no more collective, no more organization, the players were just trying to find Neymar and Mbappé as soon as they managed to get the ball. Yes, except that the stars were no more there than the team spirit. So the mission was impossible. What is the point of having invested so much for players of this level if it is to see their shadows in the final and be punished by a player trained at the club? Yes, striker Kingsley Coman was trained in Paris, irony is often cruel. We are not going to throw everything in the trash, far from it. PSG have learned a lot in Lisbon. But there are still lessons to be learned. Even when your name is Neymar. Especially when your name is Neymar. Being strong with the weak and weak with the strong is not part of the contract.