It has been almost three years since Paris Saint-Germain has known the humiliation one evening of the knockout round of the Champions League in Barcelona. And Unai Emery still hasn't forgotten it. In an interview with France Football , the Spanish coach returned - with bitterness, let's be honest - to this catastrophic evening.
“I won the Championship, four National Cups and two Champions Trophies, begins by saying the Basque. But the ultimate goal was the Champions League. The first year (2017), in the round of 16 against Barcelona, we make a very high level first leg (4-0, February 14). And on return, we are eliminated because the VAR did not yet exist (1-6, March 8). We were clearly eliminated by arbitration decisions. "And by Di Maria who crunches. And by defensive errors. And through fear in the stomach.
Thiago Silva defended too low (surprising isn't it?)
Speaking of defense and trembling legs, Unai Emery took the opportunity to stick a little cleat to Thiago Silva. “I wanted the team to defend higher. Thiago Silva is a great player but I wanted him to be higher and I couldn't get him to accept that. […] I worked with him to make him accept this but I did not succeed. And this characteristic of Thiago Silva's game reflected on the whole team which, under pressure, had a natural tendency to retreat. As at Camp Nou, the previous season. However, I instructed to go back up. But that was not understood… ”What to add matter to the defenders of the theory according to which the Brazilian is mainly responsible for the sinking of his team-mates on the ground that evening.
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