Jesse Marsch (coach of Leipzig, after the 3-2 defeat in Paris)
: “
It's the opponent we expected, the composition we expected. Our plan worked well, but we made too many easy mistakes after leading. And finally, we may have deserved this defeat ... But we must congratulate this young team who played well. And it was a step forward in terms of the evolution of the team. Often it's very hard to play in C1 against the biggest teams. (…) I don't want to talk about refereeing because it's our fault, because of our mistakes. Going close to a good result is positive. Christopher Nkunku was the best player on the pitch with Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé, that means something. Objective third pace and Europa League? It's easy to analyze: itis almost impossible to survive in this group and the Europa League must be a goal. You have to get results at home and have a good game in Brugge. The mistakes in the second half? A bit of everything ... Lack of experience. In some situations, players weren't sure how to behave. We have such a young team, a courageous composition, and PSG has so much experience… These are players who play C1 every year, the Copa America, all the major tournaments… We should have had a perfect match for have a chance and we almost made it. (…) We didn't have a lot of possession, but we played well against the ball, we were able to attack the right spaces at the right time, a good positional game, we also had a lot of construction phases, more that it usually happens in Paris ... It was good,but not good enough.
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