By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 35 minutes ago, Updated now
The Parisians on Thursday after the defeat against Barcelona. Kevin Domas / Kevin Domas / Panoramic
Heavily beaten at home by Barça (22-30) Thursday evening in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League, Paris will have to show a completely different face in the return match.
After a good first period (14-11), Paris SG hand “exploded” after half-time against FC Barcelona according to Nikola Karabatic, conceding a heavy defeat at home on Thursday (30-22) which places him on the edge of the abyss before the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League.
“There, I am not thinking at all of the return, but of showing another face against Dunkirk at home (Sunday in the championship, of which PSG is leader). In Barcelona we will have to show another face and more qualities. We showed them in the first half, in the second we collapsed”declared the French international to the press.
“Never give up”
He also highlighted a “lack of confidence latent for a while”while PSG was slapped on Saturday in the final of the Coupe de France by Nantes (31-23), and the numerous absences (Grébille, Balaguer, Prandi injured at the start of the match) “even if that doesn’t excuse anything”.
His brother Luka, the Parisian captain, felt that his team had “paid” after the rest the efforts made before, where she was “maybe a little overspeed”.
“It was playing at a very high intensity, it’s hard to maintain this rhythm for 60 minutes, and somewhere we gave up mentally and physically in the second half”developed the pivot.
“Of course there is always hope” for the return, “in sport you must never give up even if it will be complicated”he added.
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