Champions League news: ‘Attacking players were impossible to stop’ says Jamie Carragher
Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher heaped praise on the attacking talent and relentless offensive display of the two teams in the PSG v Bayern Munich semi-final on Tuesday.
Carragher: Every attacking player was an eight or nine out of 10
"Normally when I see a game like that I'll say 'the defending is not good enough' or 'it is not up to the standard of this level of football,'” Carragher said on CBS Sports.
"But what I would say is: Every attacking player on the pitch was an eight or nine out of 10.
“Every attacking player got the better of their counterpart.
"When I remember the goals, it wasn't like there was a goalkeeper howler or something stupid defensively, it felt like the goals were just great goals.
"It wasn't like defenders made a fool of themselves. The attacking play was that high it was almost impossible to stop the goals," he added.
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Happy, but relieved
PSG boss Luis Enrique echoed Carragher’s comments, but was relieved to have just gotten the win in such a back-and-forth encounter.
"We won the match, of course, we are happy, very happy,” Enrique told the press after the game.
"But after being 5-2 up you think you can have a better result. I think we deserved to win the match, but we also deserved to draw and we even deserved to lose."
The beautiful game
"We've been talking a lot about teams who don't take enough risks,” Thierry Henry said alongside Carragher on CBS Sports.
“We talk about teams not losing the game rather than winning it.
"Tonight we had plenty of risk. If we have our defensive hats on you might go crazy with what you saw tonight.
"But I don't care. People have been complaining football is boring. That game was not boring. It was just crazy at times," Henry concluded.
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