Lille/PSG – Bentaleb left ruing the draw | OneFootball

This Friday, as part of Matchday 2 of the 2026-2027 Ligue 1 season, Paris Saint-Germain faced Lille at Stade Pierre Mauroy. Nabil Bentaleb, the 31-year-old midfielder for the Lille club, spoke toLigue1+ after the 2-2 draw (Lille/PSG video highlights).

Bentaleb: “Obviously, we deserved better tonight”

That must be very hard to take?

Obviously, I think we deserved better tonight. We did everything. It’s hard to blame the group for anything. We knew we had to play a perfect match to get a positive result against this team. We had it in our hands, but football comes down to little things and small details, and that’s what we were missing at the end of the match.

Do you understand why he let play continue?

No. No. He said that on their goal, they had lost a minute. After that, we’re not going to go into the details, we know the consequences. We’re very disappointed, and I think we deserved better tonight.

Bentaleb: “we were forced to drop back.”

Is it inevitable to sit back against this PSG?

Obviously, it’s complicated. Especially when you’re leading, you tend to want to drop back. That’s not necessarily the best solution. But there are very good players on the other side who are capable of pushing the block back. There’s Kvara, and automatically he pushes us back by 10 to 20 meters.

It’s not necessarily what we wanted, but we were forced to drop back. We still did quite well defensively. Maybe, when we won the ball back, we could have kept it a little more. But that’s easy to say because on the pitch it’s a different story.

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