After the narrow qualification for the UEFA Champions League Round of 16, PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi has confirmed that Luis Enrique will continue as the head coach.
While Luis Enrique’s position wasn’t seriously in jeopardy even with elimination, Al-Khelaïfi emphasized the coach’s stability within the club. « Honestly, since the first match with our new style and Luis Enrique, we’ve done really good work on the style of play, what we want, on what we like. It’s a very offensive game, and that’s what we want, to play. The coach is really very motivated about the same things as us, » stated Nasser Al-Khelaïfi.
« We signed with him for an offensive game, a match where we can score, where we can win, and there are matches where we can’t. That’s football, » added the PSG president on Canal+.
Reflecting on the Champions League group stage, Al-Khelaïfi acknowledged the challenges. « It’s true that the goal was to finish first. It’s still good; we are qualified, even if it was complicated, with the match against Milan away, against Newcastle. We lost the first one, and today we deserved to win this match. We played a great game, didn’t score, came close, but didn’t score. We did the job, and we are satisfied because the group wasn’t easy. »