PSG, Bayern coaches predict more goals, thrills in return leg after UCL ‘ode to football’
Luis Enrique has ‘never experienced a match of such intensity’ as teams now head to venue of French side’s first Champions League title win
Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique admitted his team will probably need to score several more goals away to Bayern Munich next week to be sure of reaching another Champions League final after a remarkable 5-4 victory in the first leg of their semi-final on Tuesday.
“I just asked my staff how many goals they thought we would need next week and we all think we will need to score at least three,” said the Spaniard, who masterminded PSG’s 5-0 triumph over Inter Milan in last season’s final.
That allowed them to win the Champions League for the first time in their history and next Wednesday’s semi-final second leg will be their first visit to the Allianz Arena since that night.
“Bayern will of course be in their stadium and will be even stronger with their fans behind them but going back there will bring back beautiful memories for us. We want to have the same mentality and will go out to try to win the game.”
Tuesday’s thriller was the highest-scoring semi-final match in the modern Champions League era – you have to go back to 1960 to find the last game as prolific at this stage of the European Cup.
That was a 6-3 win for Eintracht Frankfurt away to Glasgow Rangers, before the Germans lost 7-3 in the final to Alfredo di Stefano’s Real Madrid.