{"id":50555,"date":"2026-04-27T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=50555"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:49:10","slug":"no-team-better-than-us-as-psg-face-bayern-in-ucl-semi-finals-luis-enrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/champions-league\/no-team-better-than-us-as-psg-face-bayern-in-ucl-semi-finals-luis-enrique\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Enrique: \u201cNo Team Better Than Us\u201d as PSG face Bayern in UCL Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain manager <strong>Luis Enrique<\/strong> has boldly claimed his team stands above all others as they prepare to face <strong>Bayern Munich<\/strong> in the <strong>UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 semi-finals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no team that is better than us. I already said this after losing the top 8,\u201d Enrique declared. He added: \u201cThese are the two best teams in Europe even if Arsenal also had a great season. In terms of consistency, Bayern is a bit ahead of us because they only lost two matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments highlight the intense showdown between the defending champions PSG and a near-flawless Bayern side. Enrique acknowledged the high level of both clubs while stressing that on-pitch performance, not pre-match labels, will decide the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>PSG have evolved into a balanced, tactically sharp unit under Enrique, peaking at the right time after a challenging Champions League schedule. Bayern, meanwhile, have displayed exceptional consistency with minimal defeats, making this an early final between Europe\u2019s finest.<\/p>\n<p>Enrique downplayed favourite status: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who the favourite is. What matters is what we show on the pitch.\u201d The two-legged tie promises high-level, open football with only one side advancing to the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique has boldly claimed his team stands above all others as they prepare to face Bayern\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":50556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50560,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50555\/revisions\/50560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}