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Presnel Kimpembe says Paris Saint-Germain took Manchester United too lightly

Presnel Kimpembe

Presnel Kimpembe, whose handball helped Manchester United progress to the Champions League quarters, says Paris Saint-Germain took them too lightly.

The Ligue 1 champions were 2-0 up in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 tie against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, but United produced an emphatic 3-1 victory at the Parc des Princes to seal their qualification.

Presnel Kimpembe
Image: Kimpembe's injury-time handball led to Manchester United's spot-kick which Marcus Rashford converted

Kimpembe's controversial handball led to a last-minute spot-kick which Marcus Rashford scored to send United through, and the France international says the defeat hurt him badly.

"It hurts me, very bad even, I feel what the fans feel," he said to YouTube channel Bro. Stories.

"I can see their anger, I realise it, I understand it and, most importantly, I assume it so that I can swallow it. It's a game that inevitably stays in the heads but that we will have to forget for the rest of the season."

The 23-year-old says PSG lacked the necessary "grit" to get them over the line in Paris.

"We lost that grit and that rage we had in the first leg," he added.

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"It's not the fact of having lived through past experiences that made us feel stressed. or whatever it was. No, it was really a self-satisfaction.

"We took this game lightly, and it's something that will never happen to me again. It's enough, never again."

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