Closing their eyes on the plane that took them to Dortmund, they thought about it, that’s for sure. Marquinhos and Kylian Mbappé, the captain and his first assistant at the armband, the two guardians of the temple and the club’s memory box, in place for at least seven years, saw the images scroll as we approached this third semi-final in four years for PSG.
Those of the final lost in 2020 at the Final 8 in Lisbon, this world which is collapsing without knowing how long rebuilding it will take. All those who recount the failures and fiascos of a club apart in the sociology of football, in France as in Europe, the others who bring back joy, including the last, close, at the end of a Catalan night which goes cream after the Homeric elimination of Barça at the Montjuïc Olympic stadium.
