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Al Khelaifi: "I'm going to kill you!"

2022-03-10T00:03:52.824Z


The president of PSG breaks into the referee's locker room and threatens a Madrid employee Nasser Al Khelaifi, together with the sports director of PSG, Leonardo Araujo, in the box of the Parc des Princes John Berry (Getty Images) Paris Saint-Germain's multimillion-dollar quest to win a European Cup skidded at the Bernabéu after a few electric minutes in which the stadium unleashed a kind of irrational energy on the match. It all started with pressure from Karim Benzema on Donnarumma,


Nasser Al Khelaifi, together with the sports director of PSG, Leonardo Araujo, in the box of the Parc des Princes John Berry (Getty Images)

Paris Saint-Germain's multimillion-dollar quest to win a European Cup skidded at the Bernabéu after a few electric minutes in which the stadium unleashed a kind of irrational energy on the match.

It all started with pressure from Karim Benzema on Donnarumma, who lost the ball and fell to the ground.

The referee, Danny Makkelie, said go on, go on, and it ended with the goal that started to turn the game around.

At PSG they did not judge the incident in the same way, and as soon as the game ended, its president, Nasser Al Khelaifi, went down to the locker room area looking for the referee, as Mónica Marchante told Movistar and Real Madrid sources confirm.

According to the club's account, Al Khelaifi burst into the referee's locker room screaming, while a Madrid employee recorded the scene with a mobile phone.

When the leader found out, he tried to attack him shouting "I'm going to kill you!", according to these same sources.

His security personnel ended up taking him to the PSG locker room while Leonardo, the sports director, shouted for the images to be deleted.

In the brawl, the employee's mobile had gone flying.

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The anger soaked all levels of the club.

The coach, Mauricio Pochettino, repeated his dissatisfaction at every microphone that was put in front of him.

At the last stop, already in the press room, he said that he was leaving the competition with "a feeling of great injustice for the goal conceded after a clear foul by Benzema".

He identified at that moment the change in the texture of the match: "From then on everyone's emotional state has changed, we haven't managed emotions well after that goal," he said, and he wasn't just referring to his players.

“The action is decisive, it changes the course of the match.

They are factors that influence the moods of the players and the opponent.

From the stadium, too”, he stated, and in a way validated the plan for the comeback put in place since the end of the match in the Parc des Princes, when Ancelotti already announced that in Madrid there would be “eleven plus 50,000 ″.

Finally, the number exceeded 60,000, and almost everyone went into vibration after 1-1.

Pochettino was desperate: "Three quarters of the tie we were superior," he lamented on several occasions.

And he always came back to the same point: “There is a clear lack, and I speak after having seen the images between 30 and 40 times with different cameras and at different angles.

But this is football, the little details count”.

From there, everything collapsed and ended with Al Khelaifi looking for the referee, a winger also confirmed by PSG sources.

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Source: elparis

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