Humiliated by Newcastle (4-1) this Wednesday, PSG suffered their second largest defeat under QSI in the Champions League, after the famous “remontada” against Barcelona.
It was a nightmare. A shipwreck. A humiliation, even. Outperformed in every aspect, PSG was completely outplayed by Newcastle (4-1) this Wednesday, a defeat that cost them the top spot in their Champions League group and raises serious questions about their capabilities. In a fierce Saint James’ Park, which hadn’t seen Champions League football for twenty years, the Magpies taught the Parisians a lesson.
The system devised by Luis Enrique, with its quartet of attackers, crumbled under the relentless pressing imposed by the home team, despite missing several key players. “It’s a Champions League match, we knew that. There were individual errors. We didn’t bring what was needed to the pitch and it showed,” admitted Lucas Hernandez in an interview with RMC Sport.
The memory of the “remontada”
As noted by Opta, the capital club suffered their largest defeat in the Champions League under QSI in England, since the famous 6-1 “remontada” against Barcelona on March 8, 2017. Before QSI, there was also a 3-0 loss against José Mourinho’s Chelsea at Parc des Princes on September 15, 2004, with Didier Drogba scoring a double. “If Paris had scored first, we could have experienced hell here. I really wanted to score. The crowd taunted me so much… It was mainly because they booed me for playing for Marseille. But that’s part of the game,” savored the former Ivorian striker, who celebrated one of his goals by shouting “Allez l’OM” towards the Auteuil stand.
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