Luis Enrique: PSG v Bayern ‘best match’ of my coaching career

Paris Saint Germain Head coach Luis Enrique hailed his team’s record breaking feat 5-4 win Over Bayern Munich He was involved in the best match ever in his coaching career.

Nine goals in Tuesday’s first leg in Paris made it the highest-scoring semi-final match in Champions League history and tied for the second-most goals in a knockout stage game in Europe’s top competition.

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Luis Enrique’s coaching career has included previous spells spain And Barcelona — where he leads a team in leadership Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez And Neymar — Champions League glory.

Nothing, though, he says matches what he saw Tuesday at the Parc des Princes.

“I’ve never seen a match with such intensity,” Luis told Enrique. “This is not the time to point out flaws; we just have to congratulate everyone.

“We deserved to win, we deserved to draw and we deserved to lose today. It was a great match. It was, without a doubt, the best match I’ve been involved in as a coach.”

At the beginning of the second half, PSG took a 5-2 lead thanks to two goals from the flying winger Khavicha covertsakhelia And Ousmane Dembele At the Parc des Princes.

Three goals down, Bayern fought back brilliantly.

the defender Substituting the deotHeader midway through the second half Joshua KimmichBayern’s free kick raised hopes, and Luis DiazIts stinging strike left it a one-goal deficit heading into next Wednesday’s return leg in Munich.

Luis Enrique was tired of watching.

“I’m so tired, and I haven’t run a kilometer,” he said. “So I don’t know how the players are feeling.”

He expects no respite next week.

“I just asked my staff, ‘How many goals do you think we need to win this game?’ They said, ‘At least three.’ Bayern Munich are stronger in their stadium, but we will try to show the same mentality.”

Spanish side Atlético Madrid Host London Club Arsenal Wednesday in the first leg of the other semi-final. The final will be played in Budapest, Hungary on May 30.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.