The premature elimination of PSG in the hands of Real Madrid has caused an unprecedented crisis in the Qatar project in the French capital, to the point of completely dismembering the locker room. The newspaper The Team has revealed what the hours after the Bernabéu debacle were like, underlining that deathly silence reigned in the locker room after Benzema’s hat-trick.
“A stunned and stunned locker room appears. Her faces are frozen, their gazes blank. It was as if these eleven players did not understand how this round of 16 match had become an almost irrational scenario in just thirty minutes, ”says the French newspaper, which adds that Nor were there words on the flight back to Paris in which the entire Parisian delegation traveled to the Bernabéu.
One of the most affected was, without a doubt, Kylian Mbappé. The French international did not hide in the locker room the immense disappointment that elimination from the Champions League had meant and he barely said a word in the locker room. Verratti, Donnaruma, especially for the sung, Marquinhos or Kimpembe were other players who suffered the most from the shipwreck at the hands of Real Madrid. From the Brazilian center, The Team He relates that his lack of serenity and leadership did not go unnoticed by some colleagues.
Another of those affected was Pochettino. The coach did not hide his disappointment at the press conference prior to this Sunday’s match against Bordeaux. On the verge of tears, the Argentine coach ended up very affected by the elimination of PSG, aware that he was signing his sentence on the bench. Complicated weeks are ahead in Paris, even more so after one of the worst eliminations that has affected the group the most in recent years.