The French press strongly criticized the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma, the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, and his defense, after their dramatic collapse in their exit from the European Champions League at the hands of Real Madrid.
The Parisian team was ahead with two goals without a response in the total of the two matches, before the royal rose in the last half hour of the match led by the French Karim Benzema, who scored a hat-trick in 18 minutes that eliminated the dreams of Pochettino's men to continue their journey in the mother continental competition.
The turn of the match was a mistake made by Donnarumma and allowed Benzema to extract the ball before it returned to the French top scorer and scored this equalizer, which opened the door to return to the Royal Club.
Based on this mistake, the French newspaper L'Equipe gave Donnarumma a score of 2 out of 10, blaming him for the loss and changing the course of the match. Kimpembe 3 out of 10 after he failed to stop Benzema.
It was remarkable that the prestigious French newspaper awarded Argentine coach Maurice Pochettino 4 out of 10 after he joined the list of coaches who failed to lead the team to European glory. The newspaper considered that Pochettino did not try to do anything to stop the team's collapse.
The same score (4-10) was awarded to Moroccan Ashraf Hakimi and Brazilian Neymar, and Portuguese Nuno Mendes received a score of 5.
French star Clian Mbappe - who scored both home and away goals - and Italian Marco Verratti had the highest rating among the Parisian team's players, which is 7 out of 10, and the newspaper considered that they were not responsible for the defeat, while Argentine star Lionel Messi was given 6 out of 10, describing the player as moving a lot. On the field and give offensive solutions to the team.
On the other hand, the French newspaper did not give Benzema a 10 out of 10, and only gave him a score of 9 despite his exceptional performance, and he was the champion of qualification in every sense of the word.
Donnarumma and Neymar fight
And the Spanish newspaper "Marca" reported that Donnarumma and Neymar were close to getting into a fight after a verbal attack between the players in the changing room after the end of the match.
The problem began when Neymar blamed Donnarumma for the mistake he made in passing the ball, and the first goal came from him, so Donnarumma replied that the second goal came from a mistake made by the Brazilian international in the middle of the field, and then everything collapsed, then the situation developed between the players before their teammates intervened and separated between them.