For its last Champions League match broadcast exclusively (the final will also be available in clear then Canal and beIN will take over next season), RMC Sport will have to do with reduced means.

Health restrictions oblige, the chain could not send its two commentators to England for the semi-final return between Manchester City and PSG on Tuesday evening.

The two Jérôme, Sillon and Rothen, will have to bring this meeting to life from a booth in Paris.

"Terribly frustrating"

This is not the first time this season, trips to the group matches in Leipzig and Manchester United also could not be covered. But here, the stake is quite different, then the feeling of deprivation too. “Commenting in the cabin for a semi-final return trip from the European Cup is terribly frustrating,” Jérôme Sillon told Le

Parisien

. But when it also concerns a French club… ”We understand that perfectly. The emotional charge is all that makes this kind of meeting the salt, and to convey it at best, it's a little easier when you bathe in it.

“The cabin commentary requires extra effort,” adds the journalist.

I don't know if viewers necessarily realize the difference in the way we comment when we are in the booth or at the stadium.

We, of course, feel it right away.

"He will still be able to rely on Julien Laurens, the channel's correspondent (among others) in England and who will be present at the edge of the field.

Only one special envoy from France

More generally, the coverage of this semi-final by the French media will be reduced to the strict minimum.

As

Le Parisien

reminds us

, a ten-day isolation is compulsory on arrival for all those who wish to go to England.

Complicated to organize for the editorial staff, especially with a first leg to cover six days before the return.

As a result, only one special envoy (for RMC) made the trip.

Apart from him and Julien Laurens, there will be only two other French journalists present at the Etihad Stadium, settled in England all year round: an AFP correspondent and one from Radio France.

Fortunately, it should be a bit easier to travel to Istanbul at the end of May for the final.

If PSG could be there, it would be even better.

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