The French giants tied their record Ligue 1 winning margin, leaving their German boss stunned following the victory
Paris Saint-Germain head coach Thomas Tuchel was taken aback by his side’s 9-0 demolition of Guingamp on Saturday.
Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani scored hat-tricks, while Neymar netted a double as PSG humiliated Guingamp in Paris.
The massive scoreline for PSG tied their record Ligue 1 winning margin, leaving German boss Tuchel stunned post-match.
“I have to think about it, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before – 9-0 in a league game,” Tuchel told reporters.
“We really wanted to score, we played with a lot of quality. We improved during the second half and played very smoothly with a good offensive structure. There were also a lot of attacks, a lot of players in the penalty area. We had a lot of opportunities to score and created many more chances.
“After the first, second, third goal, we played with a lot of confidence. We did simple things but very quickly and decisively. We are very satisfied and very happy.”
Mbappe and Cavani became just the second set of team-mates to each score three goals in a French top flight match in the last 45 years, with Cavani passing the century mark for the club along the way.
But for the Uruguayan, the result was just a bit of redemption after having been beaten by the same side in cup action 10 days back.
2 – It is the 2nd time in the last 45 seasons that 2 players (Mbappé & Cavani) of the same team score 3+ goals in a single Ligue 1 game (after Albert Gemmrich and Gerard Soler with Bordeaux against Valenciennes in August 1979). Crazy. pic.twitter.com/a2DoGJ2Hke
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“The main thing was to beat Guingamp tonight after they had knocked us out of the Coupe de la Ligue,” Cavani said following the win.
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“It showed that the team wants to keep doing great things and that that defeat was just a lack of concentration. It’s up to us to keep going like that.
“I’m very happy to have scored my 100th and even my 101st goal at the Parc des Princes. I am in the club’s history and I want to keep scoring goals to help my team.
“The 100th goal was a one-two between [Angel] Di Maria and Neymar, he put the ball on my head and I finished it off.”
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