Philippe Auclair
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2,083 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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To go head-to-head and try to play fancy football and try to attack, attack, attack, and then lose?
I would put it that way, that Arsenal play to about 96% of their potential and force PSG to play to about 70% of their potential because all of the discourse we're hearing now is a discourse which is based on the result of a penalty shootout.
If you invert the result for the last two shots on goal, we have a completely different discussion, which should already make us think, all right, let's be careful about what we say here because it's also about the context and about we saw what happened at the end and then we take...
We make assumptions as to what should have happened before that.
The other thing I would say is the reason why Arsenal had the lowest possession, I think, in any European final is because PSG are bloody good in that every time Arsenal had the ball and were trying to build from the back, my goodness, that Parisian midfield was on them completely.
I mean, like a rash and so well organized.
And I thought it was personally, I mean, in terms of level, tactical level, one of the best finals I've ever seen.
It was incredible.
It's like two proper heavyweights going for it.
Could they have done it differently?
Yes, but only up to a point.
Because every time they did try to go up the field, either the players were not quite good enough, and that is something to talk about,
That definitely is.
But they did try.
But they were in a situation where they couldn't do anything other than defend as they did.
And by the way, this was no parking the bus.
No way.
It was as disciplined and mastered and controlled a display of defensive skills as I've ever seen.
And I would put that on the level of what Inter did against Barcelona.
all those years ago in the Champions League and 10 v 11, you remember.
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