'So sensational': Dortmund's Kovač on PSG v Bayern thriller
Borussia Dortmund coach Niko Kovač said he was also thrilled by the Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and his former club Bayern Munich which the French side won 5-4, although he also admitted to mixed feelings. "There are two perspectives. Firstly, the neutral’s perspective – just letting yourself be swept along.
That was sensational. I have to say: I enjoyed it,” Kovač said on Thursday. “If you look at it as a coach: I don’t know how my heart would have held up.
Conceding five or four goals is a bit much. “But it was a spectacle. So sensational to watch.
” Kovač said that PSG and Bayern, who play the second leg of their semi-final in Munich on Wednesday, are the best teams in Europe at the moment. “Let’s not kid ourselves about what the top-tier product is at the moment: it’s Bayern Munich, it’s PSG. And all the other clubs in Europe are watching with great interest,” he said.
Kovač won a Bundesliga and German Cup double as Bayern coach in 2019 and also the league as a player with them. Bayern have already clinched the Bundesliga title and are ahead of Dortmund, where Kovač has been criticised for playing too results-orientated at times. Dortmund can all but secure the runner-up spot if they win at Borussia Mönchengladbach on the weekend and although he expects "another intese game" Kovač said that "we want to win because there are still nine points to be won" in the season.