Neymar called it one of the most important goals in the history of Barcelona. Sergey Roberto couldn’t sleep after recording it. The image of oppression, Lionel Messi, was everywhere. Many consider the UEFA Champions League back.
For Unai Emery, No RemotaBarcelona’s 6-1 victory over his team in Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, which led to the failure of four goals from the first station in France, which represents somewhat different. It was an amazing defeat that threatened to define it.
Emery won praise in Valencia and three European awards in Seville, but Paris Saint -Germain was his chance to make memories in the Champions League – and this was not the type that was in mind the owners of the Qataris. They even lost their local title for Monaco.
This was reclaimed at least under Emery in the following year, as he directed Paris Saint -Germain to a local quadrant, but the effects of that night in Barcelona resonated, however. They formed his team’s selection in the loss to Real Madrid in 2018 until the course of his career.
Eight years later, Emery has not faced his former club for the first time since his departure, but Luis Enrique is also, and now Paris Saint -Germain coach himself. The man who declared the famous that “if they can register four, we can register six” and it could be correctly correct.
Is Emery above it? He has achieved enough to relax about reunification. After another victory in the European League with Villarreal. Aston Villa took a level that the club had not seen for more than 40 years. But in our first interview after taking over in a villa, he The person who raised this was.
“I won the European League four times,” he said. Sky Sports. “This is a great experience and a lot of competitive moments. I also had some defeats, as with Paris Saint-Germain when we lost against Barcelona, for example, 6-1. This experience helped me improve.”
This was not the dominant feelings at the time. Neymar alluded to Barcelona’s faith in advance. “We have the team. We can make date.” After that, Emery took a less romantic vision. “We have been eliminated because Far was not yet.”
It was a curious evening. Barcelona showed their weakness in Parc Des Princesss, but the roasted PSG did not choose to test them again in the camp No, as he was leaving the possibility of returning by sitting and getting rid of two goals in the first half.
Messi made three penalty kick early in second place, but Edinson Cavani’s goal has left the crowd and it seemed that all Barcelona hopes are the end, which is the base of the goals that means that it needs three others. They still need those three goals that enter the 88th minute.
During this interrelated period, Paris Saint -Germain felt the theft. Javier Masono recorded him on the Angel de Maria as he was preparing to shoot. Ball loop. No penalty came. “It is clear that it was a mistake,” said Massrano. “I will not lie about it.”
Emery was criticizing the officials. “We had opportunities to make it 3-2 and then the ruling decisions, I do not know whether it is right or not, but certainly hurt us.” It was not as harmful as it came after that. “Then, in the last minutes, we lost everything.”
What happened in these final minutes is the things of legend. Neymar took the lead position, scored two and created another in the fifth minute of stopping. Messi still stole the front covers. This is said to play his role in persuading Neymar to move forward.
Watch Lucas Digne, now from Villa, from Barcelona seat, but Emery felt like a passer -by also in the other hideout. The perception was that when it was time to show Paris Saint -Germain that they were ready to overcome the elite of Europe, his team had broken the challenge.
“In that period of the game, I saw that a player was important to us, who was suffering from problems during the week, was hiding himself,” Emery said. “Maybe I should change it. These little things are what you can see the game escape from you.”
The player was not called at the time, although some later concluded that Emery had regretted his decision to remember Thiago Silva, the great defender whose fitness was in doubt. He missed the first station. The temptation to adhere to the back was four.
Emery, who is supposed to be affected by the idea that the Brazilian experience will be necessary in the camp of the Camp Nou, returned it. The coach pointed out that his analytical approach appreciates the psychological incompetence of his tactical instincts.
Speaking three years later, after a long period of his departure from Paris, and after he was amazingly deleted Silva on his part in the coming season to Real Madrid, Emery discussed his dilemma on the defender. “I wanted the team to defend the highest,” he said.
“Thiago Silva is a great player, but I wanted him to defend higher and did not succeed in persuading him to accept this. I wanted him to leave his comfort area so that the general pressure that our team was putting on the opposition was more effective.
“I worked with him to accept this but did not succeed. This characteristic of Thiago Silva echoed through the rest of the team that was, under pressure, tends to decline.
Emery is not a man who forgets the details, and it is clear that this is what stayed with him. Maybe it will always be. These questions come again this week as he returns to Paris with a villa in the Champions League quarter -finals, where Paris Saint -Germain is still chasing that cup out of reach.
Speaking to Kevin Trapp, the goalkeeper who allowed him six goals that night, he said: “I always try to convince everyone that the game is no longer important to me.” But it is useful for Trab back to Barcelona with Eintracht Frankfurt and brought them out of Europe.
This is football. There is always another game. A cognitive point, and perhaps now, from the Prophet, made by Luis Enrique on that night in 2017. “We have lost everything in Paris. But this wonderful sport is unique. It always gives you the opportunity to take revenge.”
Perhaps this is the role of Emery.
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