Marquinhos, captain of PSG, after the qualification of his team against FC Barcelona on Wednesday in the knockout stages of the Champions League: “It was hard, we knew it would be another context.
They have had a series of good performances since the first leg.
They had more courage to press high.
We had difficulty getting out of the balloons when it is our strength.
There are always good and bad times in a meeting, thanks to our great goalkeeper we kept it up.
It was hot.
We saw that we were missing a lot of entry stages.
They used the laterals well.
We were able to better manage the second half, we had more commitments.
It made the difference.
It's difficult to defend against Barcelona, we know their philosophy.
They were very aggressive.
We defended a lot then we put more courage in the second half.
We were more together and we deserve the qualification.
It feels good after everything we've been through.
We succeeded today.
Football is going very quickly.
That was the challenge of this meeting: to hold the result and have a good match. "
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