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Luis Enrique Target position in the Champions League PSG boss reveals
In the Magpies’ first home Champions League match in more than 20 years against PSG, Luis Enrique is going for all three points at St. James’ Park.
Following the club’s worst start to a season under owners Qatar Sports Investment, Luis Enrique has emphasized that PSG’really want’ to defeat Newcastle United to ‘consolidate’ their position in the Champions League.
Despite being in second place in Ligue 1, PSG has only won four games overall since Enrique became manager in the summer. Even on Saturday, mediocre Clermont Foot managed to hold the champs to a scoreless draw.
Clermont started the day bottom of the table, but the strugglers claimed just their second point of the season against PSG at the Gabriel Montpied Stadium on an evening goalkeeper Mory Diaw kept out efforts from Kylian Mbappe, Randal Kolo Muani, Ousmane Dembele, Goncalo Ramos and Danilo Pereira. Nothing summed up the visitors’ frustration quite like Mbappe picking up a yellow card for diving late on.
“Perhaps we lacked a little bit of passion, but I also believe that the pitch’s condition made it very challenging to play. The ball was bouncing all over and was very challenging to manage. Despite the clear decrease in our attacking options, we were still in charge of the game.
“The final score is a draw, but we also had a chance to lose. A extremely unpredictable sport is football. We got 10 shots that were on target out of a total of 21, according to the information I saw. That ought to be enough to win the game, in my opinion, but that wasn’t the case.
“Now that the Champions League match against Newcastle is approaching, we must get ready, and we really want to win the game,”