Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique, on Wednesday, blamed his team’s 2-1 defeat at home to Atletico Madrid on bad luck and admitted that the French Premier League leaders’ chances of advancing to the Champions League were in danger with the team’s ranking declining in the league stage. .
Paris Saint-Germain dominated with its usual possession of the ball, but was again without any attacking threat, and Warren Zairi-Emery’s goal came due to a defensive error.
Nauel Molina quickly equalized for Atletico, which succeeded in snatching victory after standing throughout the match when substitute Angel Correa scored from a counterattack in the third minute of stoppage time for the match, a scenario that Luis Enrique described as a “bad joke” at the end of a “bad day.”
Paris Saint-Germain had several dangerous opportunities for Achraf Hakimi, Bradley Barkola and Ousmane Dembélé, but was unable to exploit them in the absence of the spearhead.
“There are no words to express it,” Luis Enrique said. “I think that in the three matches that we played at home, we were significantly superior to our competitors, but we were not lucky.”
He added before Paris Saint-Germain travels to face Bayern Munich on November 26: “As long as there are matches, we will fight.”
Paris Saint-Germain occupies 25th place in the league stage, which includes 36 teams, and is far from the qualification places with 4 matches remaining in the first round.
Luis Enrique said: “I have been working in football for more than 30 years and I cannot explain this. It’s just bad luck. We were infinitely superior to our competitors. We deserved to win our three matches at home comfortably.”
In response to a question about whether Paris Saint-Germain’s chances of advancing to the next round were in danger, he said: “Without a doubt.”
He added: “We created 50 chances to score in 3 matches and failed to take advantage of many of them… We need 20 clear chances to score and then the opponent scores easily… It seems like a bad joke. Creating opportunities is the team’s responsibility and I am responsible for the team, and therefore I am responsible for the results. If I fail, I will fail with my ideas. “We are on the right track.”
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone praised his team’s performance despite the injuries in the defense line.
He said after the result, which raised his score to 6 points: “In this match, we missed five players in defense. Despite these absences, the team was strong. We conceded the goal due to a mistake, but we continued playing.”
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