Paris Saint-Germain head coach Mauricio Pochettino has admitted that it was a "hard blow to take" after watching his team crash out of the Champions League in dramatic fashion on Wednesday evening.
Facing Real Madrid in the second-leg of their last-16 showdown, the French giants were 1-0 up from the first-leg in Paris last month. They doubled their advantage on aggregate a few minutes before half-time through Kylian Mbappe and they were in complete control of the contest.
But despite continuing to control the game after half-time, PSG collapsed in the space of 17 minutes, conceding a hat-trick of goals from Madrid striker Karim Benzema. He pounced on some slack PSG defending and made them pay, scoring his second and third goals of the night in the space of just two minutes.
