[Sport] CL hits and misses: Deja vu for PSG , Liverpool's useful defeat

[Mr.Bada]

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PSG have been here before. Two goals ahead against Manchester United after the first leg in 2019, four goals ahead of Barcelona in 2017. This time it was half an hour left, with two goals to the good against Real Madrid.

 

Wednesday's last-16 tie was the fourth time out of nine that they have been knocked out of the Champions League when winning the first leg - only Real Madrid have done so more often (six times).After going out of the Champions League, PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino says the momentum changed after Real Madrid's first goal, which he believed should not have stood

Real Madrid 3-1 Paris Saint-Germain (agg 3-2) - Match report

How the teams lined up | Match stats

The mentality of their star-studded line-up was weak - perhaps scarred by the mistakes of the past - and they failed to recover after Gianluigi Donnarumma's howler gifted Karim Benzema his opener.

 

PSG's players hardly had time to get their heads up after Benzema's second before he made it 3-1 on the night and gave Real the crucial goal to send them through.The Qatari owners' search for a Champions League trophy goes on. Even the addition of Lionel Messi in the summer could not get them beyond the last 16, with the former Barcelona man anonymous on his return to Spain.