PSG beat Bayern Munich on Tuesday and the German champions earned their first chance to reach the Champions League quarter-finals after a 1-0 win at the Parc des Princes. At the end of the game, Christophe Galtier (the coach of the Parisians) talked about the problems that his team faced at the beginning of the year.

Christophe Galtier (PSG) blames injuries for poor results in 2023

PSG suffered their fifth defeat of 2023 on Tuesday, having lost just four games in all of 2022. Galtier talked about the injuries (the game changed when Kylian Mbappe came on) and said they still hope to go through to the next round.

“We had a difficult hour of the game against a team that did not allow us to possess the ball. We expected that given the high number of absentees. And Hakimi plays with pain, he played at the World Cup with some problems and still hasn’t gotten rid of them. We couldn’t win on the right from Marquinhos, who was grinding his teeth because he was hit a bit

We lack freshness, but we are also unlucky. Since I took that goal just as I was preparing a change, I was going to bring Mbappe on.

It must be said that Bayern deserved to score earlier, but if we had not conceded that goal, the game would probably have looked different. Because we played different football with Kylian coming in.

Let’s see what will happen instead. This is a doubleheader and there will be no qualifiers or eliminations after tonight. I hope I talked about it with the players in the dressing room. There are no excuses, but we are in a moment where the team is not in the best condition and is not complete.” Christophe Galtierquoted by L’Equipe.

Former PSG player Kingsley Coman scored Bayern Munich’s goal in the 53rd minute.

The return match will take place on Wednesday, March 8, at the Allianz Arena in Munich. Bayern have qualified every time they have won the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 (12 out of 12).