PSG players hammered by famously brutal L’Equipe player ratings as seven men get 2/10 after Barcelona defeat

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN players were brutally hammered by the famously harsh L’Equipe player ratings on Thursday morning.

The highly respected sports newspaper handed SEVEN of their players – as well as flop manager Unai Emery – just 2/10 after the French champions were somehow eliminated at the Nou Camp.

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Barcelona players celebrate after their stunning turnaround at the Nou Camp[/caption]

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PSG lost 6-1 to crash out of the Champions League – with three goals coming in the final seven minutes[/caption]

After holding a four-goal, first-leg lead PSG went 3-0 down in Catalonia.

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But when Edinson Cavani scored a crucial away goal with half an hour still to play, Barcelona needed a miracle to have any chance of qualification.

That miracle happened as Barca – spurred on by a brilliant Neymar free-kick and a highly suspect penalty – managed to score their third goal in just seven minutes to reach the quarter-final.

Sergi Roberto was the hero, somehow finding himself completely unmarked at the far post to volley home the winner in the 95th minute.

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L’Equipe player ratings from the first leg…[/caption]

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…and the player ratings from the second leg[/caption]

After the first leg L’Equipe handed out an unprecedented two 9/10s and five 8/10s for PSG players.

But it was quite the opposite for the second leg.

SEVEN players and the manager got just 2/10 – with Edinson Cavani the highest scorer with only 4/10.

Adrien Rabiot was the man with the biggest contrast in form.

Having run the show in the first leg, scoring a 9/10, Rabiot was bumped all the way down to 2/10.

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L’Equipe’s headline from the first leg was in stark contrast to the second – ‘Prodigious’[/caption]

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Thursday morning’s front page says ‘Unspeakable’[/caption]

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It is a rehash of an iconic front page from 1993 after Bulgaria beat France to stop them qualifying from the 1994 World Cup[/caption]

Lucas Moura and captain Thiago Silva didn’t play in the first leg and both scored 2/10s as well – the men they replaced, Angel Di Maria (9/10) and Presnel Kimpembe (8/10), were sorely missed.

Neymar was the top mark getter with a 9/10, after he had been handed a 3/10 in the Parc des Princes.

The Brazilian was described as the “great craftsman” of Barcelona’s qualification.

The turn around for the rest of the players was just as stark – from five players on 2/10 in Paris, they had three players on 8/10.

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Barcelona fans celebrated long into the night[/caption]

Luis Enrique was given a 9/10 for his bold tactical choice to drop Jordi Alba and employ a back-three and a hybrid formation that sometimes saw as many as five players playing up front.

The newspaper was clearly as shellshocked by the result as the club’s fans.

On their front page they went with the headline ‘Unspeakable’ – a rehash of an iconic page from 1993.

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That headline came after France had seen their hopes for qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA dashed by lowly Bulgaria.

The first leg had had the headline ‘Prodigious’.

Damningly, the performance was described as an “historic shipwreck” in which the club’s “worst nightmares” had come true.