EXCLUSIVE | Mark Hateley on PSG-Bayern and Kylian Mbappé: “He has that ego, and that ego definitely didn’t work at PSG.”
EXCLUSIVE | Mark Hateley on PSG-Bayern and Kylian Mbappé: “He has that ego, and that ego definitely didn’t work at PSG. ” Former AS Monaco and England international Mark Hateley sat down with Get French Football News to discuss tonight’s UEFA Champions League semi-final between Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain. After last week’s 5-4, a lot of people were saying that they wished PSG-Bayern was the final.
Is that something you’d have liked to see? Cup competitions are always difficult to call because most of the time, the best team might not win. The best team will always win a league, but a cup competition is very ‘iffy and butty.
’ I think the game itself on the night was an exceptional game of football, an incredible game of football. Some incredible players on show, both excelling on how to score goals but not how to defend! But what does the punter want to see?
They want to see dynamic games like that with lots of goals. PSG, it started last year, popping the ball through the lines, very, very, very quickly. Trying to get to the wider areas, trying to get the ball into the box, getting goals scored.
And I think the time of big goal scorers has come back. As we saw with the game itself, 5-4, great performances, but defenders and managers will be going well look at that, look at that, look at that. But for the neutral on the night – maybe not your Bayern Munich and PSG supporters, they’ll be a bit more heart in mouth – it was just popcorn flying everywhere.
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