This PSG is the laughing stock of Europe

Two years after the Barcelona revival, the European press is obviously echoing the elimination of the PSG against Manchester United (1-3).


The defeat conceded by PSG on Wednesday against Manchester United (1-3) in the return leg of the knockout stage of the Champions League inevitably reduces to the slap received at Barca two years ago. Blame it on the 2-0 win in the first leg at Old Trafford and the scenario of the match with this penalty taken in extra time. "Even worse" title moreover L'Equipe the day after this new Paris fiasco, evoking a cataclysm in its inner pages.

"Terrible camouflage for PSG", wrote for its part Le Parisien on his one, evoking "A curse more" in his home pages, while Le Figaro indicates more prosaically headline "The PSG dark and disappeared from the Champions League ". But this new defeat of the champions of France obviously had a repercussion beyond our borders. "Another rematch eliminates the PSG" writes Sport in Spain while the neighbor Mundo Deportivo speaks of a "PSG K.O. on penalty in the 94th" and that Marca evokes a "Bomb: The PSG is out".

In England, more than the elimination of the PSG, it is obviously the miraculous qualification of Manchester United that one retains. "Miracle in Paris" title and leTelegraph, the Mirror evoking a "Marc de Triomphe" in reference to Marcus Rashford, author of the winning penalty. On the other side of the Alps, if it is obviously the penalty given during the extra time at FC Porto against AS Roma that makes the headlines, the blunder of Gianluigi Buffon is not forgotten. "Buffon's dumpling sends him home" explains Corriere dello Sport, Tuttosport's "Gigi, what a curse".