PSG “suffered a lot” as Luis Enrique, Enzo Maresca reflect on “quite lucky” Champions League win over Man City

By Oliver Thomas | 15 Oct 2026 07:50, Last updated: 15 Oct 2026 07:54

Luis Enrique has admitted that his Paris Saint-Germain broadside “could person lost” against Manchester City aft racing into a 3-0 half-time pb in Wednesday’s Champions League thriller astatine the Etihad Stadium.

The defending champions produced a scintillating first-half show that saw them people 3 goals successful the opening 32 minutes done Desire Doue, Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha, portion Achraf Hakimi besides deed the post.

However, Man City admirably fought backmost successful a ascendant second-half showing and were vastly improved acknowledgment to the introductions of Iliman Ndiaye, Ayyoub Bouaddi and Matheus Nunes.

Erling Haaland etched his sanction into the Champions League grounds books arsenic helium scored either broadside of a fortuitous Maghnes Akliouche onslaught earlier Ferran Torres had a precocious punishment for the visitors saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma.

In a pulsating contention that saw Man City registry 27 shots to PSG’s 15, arsenic good a 52 touches successful the opposition’s container to the visitors’ 17, Maresca’s men yet came up abbreviated and mislaid 4-2 to a French broadside who were “quite lucky” to assertion maximum points.

Enrique: ‘Lucky PSG suffered a batch against Man City’

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Reflecting connected an action-packed evening successful Manchester, Enrique told reporters: "It was a truly breathtaking crippled and what we thought astir the crippled yesterday really ended up happening.

"When you spot a crippled astatine this level, 2 teams who are truly trying to play football, pressing arsenic precocious arsenic possible, I deliberation that was the crippled we thought it was going to be.

"Exciting, incredible, played astatine a precocious tempo. That's precisely what happened. We were capable to flooded their pressing successful the archetypal fractional and deserved to beryllium 3-0 up astatine half-time but past I don't similar it erstwhile we get 2 halves of shot that are truthful different.

“I cognize that the opponents successful the 2nd fractional took a batch of hazard and truly went for it and created a immense magnitude of problems for us.

"Most deliberation the crippled is won, but it's ne'er the lawsuit and adjacent with little luck, we tin suffer this benignant of game. We suffered a batch successful the 2nd half, they deserved to people much goals. With a spot of atrocious luck, we could person mislaid this match.

"The squad that mislaid contiguous possibly were a spot unlucky and I spoke to [assistant] Raphael Pol astatine fractional clip and said each the luck that we didn't person successful the archetypal games of the French league, we got each of it today. It balanced retired a spot successful the 2nd fractional contiguous erstwhile the luck was connected our side. I deliberation the luck was connected our broadside this evening."

Meanwhile, Man City manager Enzo Maresca believes that his squad are "close" to PSG’s level and was told by Enrique astatine afloat clip that the French broadside were “quite lucky” to clasp connected for the win.

Maresca: “We created capable to merit thing more”

“I deliberation we started rather bully until the archetypal extremity and past we concede the 2nd aft 1 infinitesimal and that astir apt created a spot of atrocious feeling, truthful archetypal fractional we struggled,” Maresca told TNT Sports.

“Second fractional we were much, much, overmuch amended and astir apt we merit adjacent thing more. It was a spot strange, to beryllium honest, due to the fact that until the archetypal extremity we started rather good.

“We were successful the game, make something, concede nothing, past we concede the archetypal 1 and aft 2 minutes the 2nd one. It’s already hard and erstwhile you concede 2 goals successful 2 minutes it’s ever worse, but successful the 2nd fractional I deliberation we created capable to merit thing more.

“We set a small spot the mode we were pressing and thing besides connected the ball. It was a spot strange, not due to the fact that of the mode we were pressing oregon attacking, but we conceded 2 goals successful 2 minutes and I deliberation we mislaid a small spot the balance, but past the 2nd fractional was a wholly antithetic game.

“I deliberation adjacent with the 0-3 archetypal half, with the magnitude of chances we make 2nd fractional we merit thing more,’ said the Italian. ‘And Luis was rather honorable astatine the extremity of the game. He said: ‘We person been rather fortunate today.’”

Defeat for Man City has seen their awesome eight-game winning streak successful each competitions travel to an end, and they indispensable present crook their attraction backmost to the Premier League arsenic they play big to Ipswich Town connected Saturday.