How PSG built the best team in Europe | Luke Entwistle

Lu?s Campos turned Monaco and Lille into Ligue 1 winners. Now he has turned PSG into Champions League winners
By Get French Football News
There is plenty of contrast between the Chelsea side of 2012 ? the last team to win the Champions League at the Allianz Arena ? and this all-conquering PSG side. But, beyond the surroundings, there is another strand that links the two triumphs ? a seeming absence of logic in their timing.
By 2012, the chance to win the Champions League looked to have passed for Chelsea. They had gone close before, in 2008, when they would have won it but not for that infamous John Terry slip in the shootout in the Moscow monsoon. Come 2012, they were an ageing team. Frank Lampard, Petr Cech, John Terry and Didier Drogba, the spine of the side, had entered their twilight years. The squad needed refreshing, as their sixth-placed finish in the Premier League laid that bare for all to see. And they were under the interim stewardship of Roberto Di Matteo. The conditions were not exactly ripe for Chelsea to lift the title in Munich.
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