Paris Saint-Germain hosted AS Monaco on Friday to kick off Matchday 25 of Ligue 1 and lost 1-3. After the match, Luis Enrique, the club’s manager, spoke to PSG TV about the result.
Luis Enrique: “It’s important to regain our confidence.”
“It was difficult from the very first minutes. We started this match a bit like the last one against Monaco in the Champions League, with some inaccuracies and a lack of confidence. Monaco is a very good team and they played very well. In the first half, they created fewer chances than in the last match against us, but they scored. We also made mistakes on that first goal.
It’s a particular, difficult moment, like there are in every season.” It’s difficult to change, but we’ll have to correct this and try to rediscover that feeling to improve our performances because we’re going into the Champions League next season, and it will be important to regain our confidence.
A tough defeat for PSG, but ultimately deserved given the overall performance of both teams. Luis Enrique’s men showed nothing spectacular this Friday, and the defeat quickly materialized without any turning point throughout the match. Naturally, this performance is far from reassuring just days before facing Chelsea in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie.
The matches go by, and this Parisian team hasn’t rediscovered the brilliance that allowed them to make history last season. In the league as well as on the European stage, the coming weeks look difficult. First and foremost, they’ll have to secure the French league title, which is far from guaranteed at the moment. The return to normalcy is difficult for this PSG team, which had its best season in history last year, but is now struggling to regain the consistency and dominance that characterized it.
