On March 6, 2019, PSG was experiencing collective, mental bankruptcy against Manchester United (1-3) in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
A catastrophic start to the match then a muddled end concluded with a British penalty awarded after video refereeing… Facts that Gianluigi Buffon remembers for “L'Equipe” this Saturday.
The 42-year-old Italian doorman started with Paris that night.
“This game, I think about it at least three or four times a week.
This arouses so much regret, confides the goalkeeper returned to Juventus Turin.
I was sure that this season we would have reached the final, I was convinced of that.
I felt something: we are reaching the final, I don't know if we will win it, but we will be there ”.
A feeling that was shattered at the Parc des Princes in the face, in particular, of the individual errors of Buffon himself.
"You can't let go, not even for a second"
“I blame myself for an incredible error, an error that, with the experience I had, I should not have made, breathes the 2006 world champion. Serenity, almost superficiality, to face our return match as if it was a formality, as if this match was of little value because anyway we had won 2-0 in the first leg and they, the poor, had two players available and nine youngsters.
Sport, like life, makes you understand that you cannot let go, not even for a second ”.
According to Gianluigi Buffon, "at Juventus, that
(Editor's note: his mistake, the way to approach the match)
would not have happened".
The Italian believes that PSG did not yet have the right approach.
“I too let myself be taken […] At Juve, from this point of view, you don't miss a single comma and the match, you don't lose it out of superficiality.
You lose it because the other was better ", he explains, however, considering that to date," there is nothing missing from PSG ".
“If there was a limit, it's taking some things for granted.
But with the arrival of Leonardo, who has an Italian culture, this type of danger has disappeared, ”concludes Buffon.
