The Big Failure of P$G

The reaction after having lost against Real Madrid in Champions

Paris Saint Germain (PSG) was in the beginning of the season, one of the teams that created more expectation in Europe. After having signed international stars like Neymar, Mbappe and Dani Alves, the French team looked like it was going to have a promising season, with the Champions League title in mind.

As the local tournament began, they were meting with the expectations. In several matches, they were winning with hierarchy, high percentages of ball possession, many shots on target, winning many aerial duels, and overall scoring many goals. Their attacking trio, Neymar, Mbappe and Cavani, was working very well by giving overwhelming victories like 5-0 against Metz, 8-0 to Dijon and 6-2 to Toulouse.

In the most important tournament for clubs world widely, the Champions League, PSG was surprising everyone for their performance in the group stage by winning 5 of their 6 games. In these international matches, they had important victories like the 3-0 against the current champion of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich, and the 7 goals they scored on Celtic.

Everything was perfect until the draw of the Champions League left them in a confrontation versus Real Madrid. At first sight, it seemed that PSG was going to win because of their brilliant performance and because of the bad moment that Real Madrid was facing. The game even became the most attractive confrontation of the round since it faced the history and experience of Real Madrid, against the amazing squad of PSG.

However, Real Madrid made respect its hierarchy, making look PSG as a mediocre team -lacking of ideas and football. The first match ended 3-1 in favor of Real Madrid with a brilliant Cristiano Ronaldo after scoring 2 goals. Likewise, in the second match, the Spanish team won with ease 2-1 in Paris, with a PSG that only had courage.

Even tough PSG won the Coupe de la Ligue and has the Ligue 1 almost won, loosing in such an early face of the Champions league, after having invested more than $270 USD millions, it is a total disaster. It proves, among many things, that money and brilliant players do not assure you to win trophies and tournaments.