Report, reaction and analysis
Vincent Kompany’s reaction
I think we gave everything. It was a game of details. We’ve played five times against PSG in the last two years – we won two times, they won two times and tonight was a draw.
We have to look at some of the phases that were decided by the officials across the two games. It’s never an excuse, but it matters. If you look at both legs, probably too much went against us. But the guys gave everything. We tried against a fantastic PSG team.
If you look at both penalties [the one given against Alphonso Davies last week and the one not given against Joao Neves tonight] it’s ridiculous. A little bit of common sense… whatever needs to happen. It’s a one-goal game in the end.
Then there’s the [potential] second yellow card [for Nuno Mendes] in the first half. I thought he was giving it and I felt he pulled out because he realised he’d already given him a yellow and he didn’t want to send him off, so he turned it round and gave PSG a free-kick.
I thought we did extremely well at bringing the ball into dangerous areas, and they did extremely well at defending the key areas of the box. On crosses and cutbacks they defending really well. I thought we disrupted a lot of the pressing they do, but they’re a dangerous team and you can never completely put them out of the tie. It’s margins, it’s details. It’s two great teams. Congratulations to them, and good luck to them.
Bayern Munich are a great, great club, and even then they win the Champions League on average once every 10 years. That’s how difficult it is. I’m not in a mindframe where I question everything because we haven’t won it, but the desire is to push for that extra step.
