• Beaten 2-0 at Manchester City on Tuesday night, PSG was eliminated from the Champions League at the gates of the final.

  • Despite everything, the Parisians delivered a superb European campaign and showed the continent's top names that they were now part of their team.

Forever the first and forever the only (for at least one more season).

OM supporters can rejoice, after the elimination of PSG in the C1 semi-final on Tuesday evening, it is not yet tomorrow that a French team will come to overshadow their European record.

But if PSG fans will indeed have to deal with the taunts of their best enemies for a few days, they will at least be able, as Ander Herrera intimated to them after Tuesday's defeat, to walk "with their heads held high" despite the elimination.

The great story may well retain only the name of the big winner, on May 29 in Istanbul, nothing prevents us, to us, to take a big tip of the hat to the Parisians in view of their dingo course this season on the stage. European.

A championship course despite elimination

Everything had started very badly, remember, with two defeats (against Manchester United and Leipzig) in three group matches and the specter of elimination before the round of 16. Until that fiery match and that 3-1 win at Old Trafford in early December, the start of a knockout campaign that will make your stomach shiver. In the meantime, Thomas Tuchel has been exfiltrated to make way for Mauricio Pochettino, who for his first in C1 on the Paris bench offered PSG a gala victory at Camp Nou (4-1). Well, we're not here to remake the entire PSG Champions League film for you either, what we simply want to say is that in the space of a few months, the Rouge et Bleu have hoisted their club where Qatar has always wanted it, right up there, at the table of the greatest.It was also the meaning of Leonardo's intervention, Tuesday evening, at the microphone of RMC.

"We can not forget what we have done over the past two years," the Parisian sports director recalled after the match. Last year, we reached the final, we lost 1-0 against a team that has won everything lately. And this year, we had ups and downs, but we also had important victories against Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Bayern. I think we've had a journey over the past two years that has placed us among the real contenders for the title. "

An observation shared by Marco Verratti, who had a message to send to PSG supporters on Tuesday. “I know that one day or another we'll get to the final. We must also be happy with our journey. We must continue like this, the coach arrived only five months ago. He gave us a lot of courage to play ball, that's the most important. But we promise that we will give everything each year to go to the final and win this Champions League, ”announced the Parisian number 6. Speaking of Pochettino, precisely, we remembered at the final whistle what the Parisian coach had said one day at a press conference: namely that if Paris went to the end this season, it would not be so much by his own doing neither that of his staff than that of his predecessor Thomas Tuchel.

Pochettino makes an appointment next season

It is true that in tumbling in the middle of a season undermined by the Covid-19 pandemic and injuries in packs of fifteen, the Argentinian has only dealt with the most in a hurry, adapting each day with the workforce he had on hand without ever having had the time to work on his precepts in depth in training.

We can also recognize some great successes, such as having (re) made Leandro Paredes and Idrissa Gueye, in different areas, important elements of this PSG.

Or to have succeeded where many have failed by making the most of Kylian Mbappé in a center-forward position not necessarily natural at home.

Here it is, it is still a little early to draw a final assessment of the PSG season - what will we write if Paris does not win any trophy by the end of May ... - but on the European scene and in the image that 'he has cleared in the eyes of Europe this season, PSG does not have to be ashamed of his career, quite the contrary

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