By
Dejan Kalinic
A brace
from Angel Di Maria and a late Thomas Meunier goal saw the French side to their
comfortable victory in the Group A clash at Parc des Princes.
Casemiro
offered no excuses for Real Madrid's
3-0 loss to Paris
Saint-Germain, admitting his team were below their best on Wednesday.
A brace
from Angel Di Maria and a late Thomas Meunier goal saw PSG to their comfortable
victory in the Group A clash at Parc des Princes.
While
Madrid had two goals ruled out, they failed to record a single shot on target
in a Champions
League game for the first time since Opta started collecting
the data in 2003-04.
Casemiro said there was
still time for Madrid to recover, but the midfielder lamented a below-par
performance.
"We
have not played well, they [PSG] have had control of the game and we know that
it is difficult to play here," he told Movistar.
"They
are very strong, they have great players. There are no excuses, we have not
played well, but there is still time for many things, to keep working.
"There
are many things ahead."
Gareth Bale
and Karim Benzema had efforts chalked off for Madrid, who were left bottom of a
group that also includes Club Brugge and Galatasaray.
Casemiro
felt Zinedine Zidane's side needed to produce close to a perfect display to
have any chance, despite the Ligue 1 champions being without Neymar,
Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani.
"We
always try to be aggressive, but of course when the result is 3-0 we know that
things are more noticeable," he said.
"We
know that if we don't make an almost perfect match here, you don't win. There's
a lot of time to change this."
The defeat
was Real's biggest-ever loss in the Champions League under Zidane, the
manager that won three Champions League titles consecutively during his first
spell as manager.
And the French boss was
quick to admit his side were outclassed on the day.
“PSG were
superior to us in every aspect,” he told a news conference. “We scored two
goals, but they have cancelled both. We must not think beyond, it has been a
bad game.
“We lacked a
lot of intensity. When you don’t have that, it's complicated!”
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