Chelsea v PSG: Marquinhos had plenty to say after the win | OneFootball

Marquinhos, 31-year-old central defender and captain of Paris Saint-Germain, stopped at the Canal+ microphone after Paris’ 0-3 victory over Chelsea (video summary Chelsea/PSG, 8-2 on aggregate, quarter-final to be played against Liverpool or Galatasaray) this Tuesday at Stamford Bridge as part of the Champions League 2025-2026 round of 16 second leg (return leg on March 17). 

Marquinhos: “That’s what we worked on during the week.”

Is this a dream night for PSG?

We managed to unlock this match very quickly and that was our objective today. I think our mentality since last year has been like this, even if we had the score from the first match, we came here to get the win. That’s what we worked on during the week. We worked and executed our match well. We knew how to stay strong during the tough moments, we scored very quickly and that calmed the match for us.

Marquinhos: “We managed the tough moments and took advantage of our strong spells.”

Do you feel you experienced the same calm as last year?

Yes, I felt calm and secure. Even though we lost a few balls at the end of the match, it shows that we dropped the tempo a bit, they still had some chances. For the next matches, we need to improve that and stay focused throughout the whole match because it’s very important, as games can change very quickly and we experienced that last year.

Every match has its story, last time, at home, it was very difficult and we stayed strong until the last minute and managed to score three goals. Today, we scored very quickly and every match has its story. That’s what makes us a great team since last year. We managed the tough moments and took advantage of our strong spells. We showed that even though we won the first leg, we came here to win this second match, we have the team for that.

Marquinhos: “We want to defend our title, but we have to take it step by step.”

It’s incredible what we did here, 3-0 on Chelsea’s ground, we have to realize the great work we did. We managed to control the match, even more than the first one. We need to keep going like this with this mentality and we’re going to face only great teams until our objective, the final. We want to defend our title, but we have to take it step by step.

Marquinhos: “Today’s match was well analyzed beforehand by our coach”

Did you feel less under pressure because the team defended better together?

Yes, I think today again we gave a lot defensively. We talked all week about wanting to improve things. We saw it in the last match and our mentality is to press high, but at some point, when they bypassed the press, we couldn’t always get support on their attacks.

I also think Chelsea changed the positions of their attackers and that made things easier for us. We were able to be more compact. We have that mentality. Today’s match was well analyzed beforehand by our coach who showed us that this meeting would be important defensively.

In attack, we know the quality we have, we manage to create chances and control the game. But the difficulties we had in the last match, the spaces we left, we worked hard to be more compact and have more defensive calm.

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