As the Real Madrid players were running around the Bernabeu pitch in delight, a story was swirling around their stadium just as fast. Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi was himself charging around in anger, furious at the challenge on Gianluigi Donnarumma that led to Karim Benzema’s tie-transforming first goal for Madrid.
The home club’s delegation didn’t know where to look, and one PSG player privately described the behaviour as “embarrassing”. That’s saying something when their squad had just suffered yet another humiliation in the Champions League.
