After winning the French Super Cup, French Cup, Ligue 1, Champions League, European Super Cup and Nations League in recent months, Vitinha was once again celebrating and received the individual distinction of best player from FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
The match was decided on penalties, after a 1-1 draw at the end of extra time, with Russian goalkeeper Safonov being the Parisians’ greatest hero, saving four shots. The Portuguese midfielder admitted that PSG “were lucky”.
“I had the opportunity to speak to the Flamengo players. They are at the end of the season and played a fantastic game. Even when they couldn’t recover the ball, they defended very well. They have a lot of credit for taking the decision to penalties. Fortunately we had luck and quality in the tiebreaker”, he began by saying.
Vitinha reveals that she didn’t go easy. “This competition is super important, we don’t know if we’re going to play it again in our career. We have to win the Champions League and it’s very difficult to be here, it’s a great opportunity, we didn’t want to pass it up. PSG sees it like this, it’s a very prestigious competition and we wanted to win it 100%. We did everything we could to win”, he concluded.
