Paris easily propelled itself to the final of the Champions League by beating (3-0) RB Leipzig on Tuesday at the Luz stadium. He will face Lyon or Bayern Munich this Sunday. For Thomas Tuchel, PSG coach, Neymar is at his best.
Paris was far above according to your counterpart in Leipzig. Do you agree ?
THOMAS TUCHEL. Yes I agree. We were the best team. We played with hunger. With resilience. With the hunger to win, to defend, to suffer, to work. It was a great effort. We got the ball very high. It was a good performance. It was very complicated. We played very well.
How do you prepare for a final?
I do not know. We will prepare it like the 8th, the quarter, the half. We will judge what we say, what we do not say. We must not talk too much. We will think, see who we are playing against. We must first recover well. We must take advantage for now. We played two finals in France (Editor's note: Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue for two titles) , two decisive matches here. I hope we will find the mix between a smile and serious work. We will give the players some free time. We always adapt and then we will do the planning.
How did you prepare for the semi-final?
I cannot explain everything because it is a three to four day preparation. There have been meetings, training sessions, we focus on ourselves, on our strength. We make a good mix between tactical things, between enjoying together on the pitch. We showed players that Leipzig plays courageously, attacking seven. We showed our strengths and the spaces where we wanted to control the game. We had a lot of possessions and we controlled the counterattacks. We had a lot of clear chances. We have to suffer, that's normal. I saw a team that was hungry to win and they did what was necessary.
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With his qualities, with his confidence, he will regain precision. I am on. I have nothing to say to Neymar for him to score. I have scored maybe two goals in my career. He is exceptional, he is very, very strong. He has the mentality of winning. He shows he is one of the best players in the world. It is the most important.