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PSG vs Manchester United: Fans and media react to the dramatic late win

Dimitri Kondonis


Manchester United’s remarkable last-gasp win over Paris Saint-Germain sent football fans into meltdown.

The Red Devils, already plagued by injuries, entered the second leg up against it having lost to the Parisians 2-0 at Old Trafford.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men required a miracle, which Romelu Lukaku almost immediately worked towards delivering when he opened the scoring inside two minutes.

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Juan Bernat seemed to end those United hopes once and for all when he equalised on the night, only for Lukaku to put the visitors ahead again before the half-time interval.

And they bagged their crucial third of the night – to put them ahead on away goals – when Marcus Rashford dispatched a stoppage-time penalty after VAR intervened to spot a handball by Presnel Kimpembe.

‘Fight until the end’

The drama sent the Twitter world into chaos as stunned fans, pundits, and particularly players, reacted to United’s win.

Jesse Lingard, one of the injured crop of Red Devils, took to Instagram.

He wrote: “Youth, Experience, Resilience. Fight Until The End. MUFC.”

Mason Greenwood, who debuted for Solskjaer’s men, added: “What a night to make my @manchesterunited debut a dream come true for me and my family ❤️”

‘Cursed’ PSG defeat ‘unforgivable’

Columnist Dominique Severac described the result as ‘an earthquake’ and ‘an industrial accident’, while L’Equipe described the outcome as a ‘cataclysm’ for PSG.

Severac, writing in Le Parisien, said: “There was the ‘remontada’ (Barcelona’s comeback against PSG) in 2017, there is now the trauma of 2019, confirming the club is cursed.”

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Severac added that United’s winner – a penalty awarded after a VAR intervention, was a “hellish cruelty, sending the capital club back to its demons, mental fragility, unlikely individual mistakes.”

“It exists and it’s completely crazy, surreal, crazy, unprecedented. Sad if we love PSG, incredible if we worship football, very ‘PSG’ if we follow PSG.”