“He led the team to victory with his goals and with his class,” summarized Thibaut Courtois at the microphone of RMC Sport about his captain. “I believe that in the end it was a complicated match with Kylian and Neymar on the counterattacks”, analyzed Courtois. “That’s how the first goal came. Just before, they had a few chances without much danger. We had a nice strike from Karim, I think Donnarumma made a good save after a header. They put the goal, but I think we kept the spirit because all it takes is one goal for the stadium to burn, to heat up. I think that’s what is happening. Karim presses the goalkeeper well who makes a mistake, we come to 1-1. There, I think the whole stadium was behind us, we went for this victory and after putting the 2-1, the 3-1 was key and you felt that for the PSG players, it was harder after that goal.”
Benzema scored a hat-trick in 17 minutes. “I believe he is one of the greatest players in the world, the best 9 maybe with Lewandowski at the moment,” Courtois believes. “I think he showed why maybe he should win the Ballon d’Or this year, I think he’s a very great player, he was a real captain, he led the team to victory with his goals and with his class.”