A deflating defeat, but truth is this is where we are about now. A thin squad means an off day here and an injury or two there and we’re not remotely the same team.
Think there was also a lot of over confidence about PSG given their injuries. Despite missing some key players, they’re just way more experienced than we are. They haven’t really got that far in the competition, but we’ve played 2 knockout ties in 5 years. For players like Rashford, Martial and Lingard, this is still new territory. Feels rather like the mid 90s when we’d go into European games full of confidence and streetwise teams would just do a job on us.
Haven’t seen anything that makes me think we’ll turn it around second leg, sadly. Think this is just one to take on the chin and mark down as part of the learning curve for this group of players.