adminPARIS. — Barcelona coach Luis Enrique refused to point the finger at his defence after the Catalans went down 3-2 to Paris Saint-Germain in Champions League Group F on Tuesday. “I don’t like to evaluate individual performances when we lose a game. We are all responsible, above all me,” he said after suffering his first defeat since being appointed in the summer. “We will analyse in depth what we did wrong to try and ensure these things don’t happen again.”
Barca had received praise after going unbeaten through their opening seven matches this season, keeping seven clean sheets in the process.
However, with Marc-Andre ter Stegen selected in goal rather than Claudio Bravo and with Gerard Pique left on the bench, Barca’s defence was made to look ordinary.
David Luiz put the French champions ahead in the 10th minute, breaching the visitors’ defence for the first time this season after 640 minutes, and PSG’s smallest player Marco Verratti was allowed to head in a corner to make it 2-1 after Lionel Messi had equalised with his 68th Champions League goal. — AFP.
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