“If we hadn't been there, I would have been nice that Barça had been there and that they won it,” said the Asturian coach
Luis Enrique Martínez returns to a Champions League final 10 years later. He will do this as a coach of Paris Saint-Germain and against Inter, after the Nerazzurri had left the FC Barcelona of his heart on the road. “For me, playing in a Champions League -final against Barça would have been the worst. The worst. If we hadn't been there, I would have been nice that Barça would have been there and that they won it. If we were there, and now we will be, we will try to get it,” said the Asturian in Movistar+.
“The result was a bit strange”
In the elimination of Hansi Flick's team, Lucho noted that “if you tell someone you are going to score six goals in a semi -final and you are eliminated, you don't believe it. He showed with his style what kind of football is being practiced in Barcelona. It was clear that they could have been in the final and they deserved it. He said.
“I know that PSG does not arouse much sympathy in Barcelona, but that is life, I do my work. This is an exciting project. It is the project as a coach. Make a team and even when the players leave, we keep thinking that we can make cracks,” continued the former Barça coach.
His PSG defeated Arsenal 2-1, making the 0-1 in the first stage in London (even more) good. “Mikel Arteta almost killed me, he took the game where he wanted. They managed to let a game play that we did not want, but this team has a lot of race. We deserve it clear to be in the final,” said Luis Enrique, who has the work of his namesake on the Gunners-Bank and Gianluigi Donnarumma. “How are you going to win a Champions League if you don't have a great keeper and 11 full-field players?” Gigio “has been great, like the entire Champions League,” he said.
Moreover, the former national coach wanted to remember that the road from PSG to the final in Munich “was windy. We were the team with the worst schedule that we grow and improve. At the start of the Champions League we did not get any points and I think the team continued to believe in itself and these things overcome the Turn, Lucho said. “Against City we lost 2-0 in a match that we did not deserve to lose. We went badly, but the statistics showed that we were one of the best teams in Europe. The team has continued to have confident. We are going to the final, which will clearly be a very difficult match,” he concluded.