Luis Enrique: “It was the best game I have been in as a coach”

The Paris Saint-Germain coach, Luis Enrique Martínez, has assured that this Tuesday’s victory against Bayern Munich (5-4), in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, has been “the best game” he has experienced as a coach, and has regretted that the team has not been able to maintain the level at a time “when everything was perfect”, when it won 5-2.

“It was, without a doubt, the best game I have been in as a coach. There has been an intensity and rhythm like never before and I think we liked both teams because we are the current champions and because they are the team in Europe that has lost the fewest games. We have managed to lose their third game of the season, which is something to be very happy about,” he said in statements to Movistar+.

However, he regretted that everything got complicated at a time “when everything was perfect” and they won 5-2. “Still, we are very happy and the second leg is going to be a party again and we are going to try to win it,” he said, also acknowledging that the Bavarian team started the game “better.”

“Their two wingers, Luis Díaz and Olise, where do those players come from? Harry Kane… They started the game better, that cost us a little. In two spurts but without too much football, we turned the game around, which we can do because we have a lot of energy and because our stadium is incredible. From there, at half-time we tried to calm down a little, because to play football you don’t have to be overexcited even though it is very nice for the fan. The level of fatigue is maximum,” he noted.

“In the second half we started much better than them, we were very effective. We led 5-2 and I have to analyze the game, but there I think that the moment you let Kimmich receive the ball with relative ease and you don’t press in the same way and with the same intensity because you think you have something, that’s when they gave us more danger, more goals. In the end, we won, we have to be happy. I would have signed it sooner and I don’t expect a different type of game in Munich. Munich It brings very good memories to the fans and to those of us who make up Paris Saint-Germain and we are going to try it,” he expressed.

Finally, he also spoke about the annoyances of Achraf Hakimi and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. “I think they are cramps in the majority. When there is that excitement around the game it is normal for players, even expert players, to suffer from cramps. I hope that Hakimi’s case remains a strong cramp. This is what a football team is about, knowing how to recover from difficult situations and knowing how to be on the green and mature side,” he concluded.