After 14 years of frustration … Saint -Germain breaks the European knot
Before his historic victory over Italian Inter 5-0 in the Champions League final, Paris Saint-Germain and his angels of Qatari suffered from several relaxants and disappointments in the oldest European championship under his details:
2012-2013: exit the quarterfinals of Barcelona
Paris, led by the Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, lost an honor against Barcelona after terrified the fans of the Camp Nou in the second stage.
Under the guidance of the Italian Motta Thiago, Marco Ferrati (preferred by the Englishman David Beckham) and Brasilian Thiago Silva, the Parisians are almost qualified after Javier Pastore’s goal in the opening of Catalonia. But the entrance of the last citizen to Lionel Messi, which the coach decided to rest at the beginning of the game, in the second half he changed the course of the meeting.
The legendary Argentine was decisive in the door marked by David Villa to match the result and to win the victory for Barcelona in the quarterfinals (2-2, 1-1).
2013-2014: exit the quarterfinals against Chelsea
Despite his 3-1 victory at the “Park de Branc” with a goal of individual pastor efforts in the arrest time, Saint-Germain collapsed at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea led by his Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho (0-2).
Laurent Blanc’s men have lost their brilliant Swedish captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, in the last few minutes with a goal by Demba Ba, to dissipate their hopes to win again.
2014-2015: leaving the quarterfinals of Barcelona
Paris, who suffered at home (1-3), was unable to do anything at Camp Nou (0-2 recorded by the Brazilian Neymar) to the exceptional Barcelona.
Paris was blocked in the semifinals of the third season below.
2015-2016: exit from the quarter-finals at the hands of Manchester City
Saint Germain lost in the quarter -final for the fourth time in a row. After drawing at Park de Brans (2-2), the players in the capital fell against Manchester City, led by Belgian director Kevin De Bruyne, who has the only goal (1-0).
Once again, the capital has not been able to qualify for the next round.
2016-2017: Exit the final price against Barcelona.
This hard exit was the language of German and is still present in everyone’s minds, despite his revenge last season in the neighborhood.
Paris Saint-Germain completely controlled Barcelona, led by Neymar and Messi (4-0) before it had collapsed and received the most humiliating defeat in the history of the club in the second stage (1-6) during a legendary comeback that no lover of the round ball expected. This historic setback strongly shaken the capital and then decided to invest huge sums in the following summer, including Neymar (222 million euros) and Killian Mbappe (180 million euros).
2017-2018: Exit the final price of Real Madrid
In the first season of Neymar and Mbappe, after the horrible scenario of the previous season, Paris continued to stumble and lost without resistance after two games that Real Madrid has dominated (1-3 and 1-2).
2018-2019: Exit the final price against Manchester United
The qualification in the quarterfinals seemed guaranteed after a 2-0 victory at Old Trafford, but the fall of the Parisians on their soil was not taken into consideration.
After two goals from the Belgian Romelu Lukaku, the Parisians felt exhausted after calculating a very hard penalty kick in the arrest time after the video assistant in the AR “AR” referee “due to a handmade by Piecel Kimbimbi. The disappointment was enormous.
2019-2020: defeat in the final against Bayern Munich
In the middle of the Pandemia della Korona (where the matches took place with a single system of quarter-final matches) and without an audience, Paris was defeated against Bayern Munich (0-1) with a goal marked by the former club player, his colleague King Kingsley Koman.
2020-2021: exit the semifinals against Manchester City
Paris and its three stars, Messi, Neymar and Mbabi, have lost two other defeats against Manchester City (1-2 and 0-2) on the cusp of the final.
2021-2022 from the final price of Real Madrid
Another catastrophic scenario, which is used by the club. After his win over Real Madrid 1-0, and advanced to Santiago Bernabeu thanks to Mbappe, things turned against the Parisians with the Revolt of Real Madrid and the splendor of his French international striker Karim Benzema in his way of winning the golden ball (3-1).
2022-2023: Exit from the final price of Bayern Munich
In two games, the Paris players led by Messi, Mbappe and Neymar did not manage to score any goals, while their goal received three goals (0-1 ago and 0-2 Next). Even with the presence of the most important stars of the team, Paris was unable to achieve this. “This is the best we can get,” Mbappe said.
2023-2024: exit from the semifinal against Dortmund
In the first season of the Spanish coach Luis Enrique and the last season of Mbabi, Paris has reached the semifinals again, and had a great opportunity to qualify against a team that was in its time, Borussia Dortmund, German. But the Parisians, whose hope was disappointed due to the poor performance, lost this opportunity and lost the two games with the same 0-1 result.
