“disappointing” end to the journey, Kylian Mbappé “transparent” and “melancholic”… The press review after PSG-Dortmund

The French and international press noted the bad luck of PSG and the resigned attitude of its top scorer.

A few hours after the elimination of Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals of the Champions League against Dortmund (0-1), Tuesday May 7, the reference with the Olympic flame arriving in Marseille was tempting. For The Team, “the flame has gone out”. “One of the biggest atmospheres in the history of the Parc des Princeswrites the major reporter of the sports daily, Vincent Duluc, which ended in regret and desolation.

“A disappointment that lives up to expectations”judge for his part Le Parisien Today in France. The Germans’ average season in their championship, the narrow defeat in the first leg (0-1) and the resolutely confident speech from Luis Enrique had given rise to a lot of hope. This is why the cold shower “so bad”.

The regional daily West France emphasizes the bad luck of the Parisians, who shot at the posts four times. “PSG has made competition history” with this sad record “which he would have done well without”.

Largely devoted to the arrival of Belem and the Olympic flame in the Marseille city, today’s edition of Provencerecalls that “Qataris and club fans have been running for over a decade” After “the sesame”. Cruelly but logically, the newspaper recalls that “L“France now only counts on OM to thrill in front of a continental final” if the Provençal team qualifies, Thursday May 9, for the semi-finals second leg of the Europa League on the pitch of Atalanta Bergamo.

“There is no paradise without Mbappé”

Across the Channel, The Guardian don’t forget that there was a team facing PSG, and a good one. The cumulative defeat 2-0 “against the fifth best team in Germany”has “his own poetry”. Borussia defended like “ten sailors holding hands on the deck of a sinking ship” to reach the final at Wembley on June 1.

Dortmund’s merit is also economic, notes Die Welt. Coming out of a group with PSG, AC Milan and Newcastle, three clubs supported by “investors who have bet hundreds of millions, or even 1.8 billion euros, on Qatar since 2011 in the case of the French club”the club from North Rhine-Westphalia has “well deserved his ticket to London”.

Obviously, the Spanish press focused on Kylian Mbappé, whose confidence before the meeting paid into “the darkness”according to Marca. “There is no paradise without Mbappé and Kylian was transparent in this semi-final”notes Pablo Polo, writer of the Madrid daily, for whom, “the countdown to his arrival at Real has begun”.

The captain of the French team appeared “melancholy” the day of his European farewell with PSG, in the eyes of Diego Torres, the special correspondent of the general daily El País. “Mbappé’s body language left the audience speechless”, he writes. Probably for the last time.