After the PSG defeat against Lyon on Sunday to close the 30th day of Ligue 1 (0-1), Luis Enrique justified his choices as his team prepares to play matches every three days, with their sights set on a Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich.
Almost half of the team. Luis Enrique made significant changes in the defeat against Lyon at the Parc des Princes, leaving several key players on the bench after their victory over Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-final second leg (0-2).
Despite being a double scorer at Anfield, Ousmane Dembélé did not play, along with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Joao Neves, Warren Zaïre-Emery, and Marquinhos. When questioned about this in the post-match press conference, the PSG coach defended his decisions, jokingly responding to a journalist’s inquiry: “If you don’t understand that, you understand nothing. You have to play nine matches with 27 players. What else can you do? After a defeat, it’s easy to think we’ve failed. That’s how I believe we should manage it because we aim to win competitions. We’ll see.”
As a Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich approaches, with the first leg in Paris on April 28 and the return leg at the Allianz Arena on May 6, the coach of the European champions emphasized the importance of both competitions: “The priority is the two competitions we can win.”
“With the race for the title heating up until the end”
With four games remaining in Ligue 1, PSG leads the table by one point over RC Lens. The two teams will face each other in a potentially decisive postponed match on May 13 in Bollaert, considering Paris also has another game to catch up on this Wednesday against Nantes.
“You like a competitive league, this is a competitive league. Lens continues to win and it will be difficult until the last match,” Luis Enrique said with a smile in front of the press.
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