PSG Twice Lost And Failed To Go To The Final, This Is The Reason

Paris Saint Germain Defender Marquinhos

JAKARTA - Paris Saint Germain is actually no less strong than Borussia Dortmund. Even PSG should have achieved better results in the Champions League. Captain Marquinhos called the cause of the team's defeat in the two Champions League semifinals.

PSG narrowly lost 1-0 through defender Matsxides' goal when they hosted Dortmund in the second semifinal match at home at the Parc des Princes Stadium, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 in the morning WIB.

The result made PSG lose 2-0 on aggregate. The reason is that in the first match, the French Ligue 1 team lost with the same score 1-0.

In that match, like when PSG played at Dortmund, they completely controlled the game. Only, their game was completely ineffective.

How not, PSG fired 31 shots that led to the goal. But none of them produced a goal.

Coach Luis Enrique said PSG's performance showed they really didn't deserve to lose the game against Dortmund.

"We were not inferior in those two games. But football won the team that scored and not the one whose shot hit the crossbar," said Enrique.

"My real target has not changed, namely the team must fight to win the match. What is clear, I am still proud of this team, to all players," said the former Barcelona coach.

Meanwhile, captain Marquinhos revealed that the team lost because they didn't play efficiently. This is what caused Le Parisiens to fail to win at home.

As a result, Dortmund's game is really effective and efficient so that it can achieve success in two home and away matches.

"We are not at all efficient. They should be efficient. We scored two goals and won two games," said Marquinhos.

However, Marquinhos remains optimistic about facing next season. Moreover, PSG is actually preparing a new project with Enrique. The project will be updated as PSG loses its Kylian Mbappe star starting next season.

"At the start of the season, we are actually believed to have not been able to make it this far. But we managed to reverse all the predictions even though we were eventually eliminated. But we still remember when we were building a new project with the new coach," he said again.

"Many lessons have been learned to prepare for next season," said the Brazilian national team defender.

The defeat to Dortmund made PSG recorded a failure in two semifinal matches during three break through the top four.

The French Ligue 1 champion was twice defeated by AC Milan in the semifinals of the 1995 Champions League. Furthermore, they also lost twice against Manchester City in 2021.

In 2020, PSG reached the final after eliminating RB Leipzig when using the one-match format.

At that time the world was hit by a pandemic so UEFA was forced to change the competition system. In the final, PSG was defeated by Bayern Munich.