Jan Oblak addresses tough defeat against PSG

Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak made no excuses after the 4-0 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain.

The Slovenian assured that the defeat “leaves a bad feeling” but he is already focused on the next match.

Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak said on Sunday that the 4-0 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup leaves “a bad feeling”, considered that it is “difficult to lose” by that margin, stressed that the French team is the “most in-form team in the world” and looked ahead to the next two matches, in which it is necessary to “do much better”.

“It leaves a bad feeling. It’s difficult to lose 4-0. PSG were better. The referee didn’t go in our favour at key moments too, but it’s football. It is a team that is really the most in-formin the world and they punish you at the slightest moment. In the end they won 4-0 and with a result like that against you can’t complain about many things,” he said.

“We conceded goals too easily. There are two group matches left, this is not over and we have to raise our heads, because this is a new tournament, different, and we have to keep playing it,” he added.

“In the end, fouls can be called or not. It may have been a foul, because I didn’t see it properly,” he said of the infringement that led to the referee, Istvan Kovacs, disallowing the goal scored by Julian Alvarez, which would have made it 2-1. “When the VAR calls, he decided it was a foul,” he added.

“The yellow cards issue is something I don’t understand. Nor the red to Clement at a time when he could have whistled for a foul on me and he didn’t do it…” he added.

“It’s difficult to play against PSG eleven against eleven and even more difficult with one less. The last few minutes have been complicated, raise our heads and we have two games left in the group, where we have to do much better and get the points,” he said.