He asked me if he could take it!" De Bruyne explains Mahrez free-kick vs. PSG

kevin that's a fantastic result and it's a great response in that second half yeah i think a game of two halves i think we started well the first 10 minutes had some control but you know that an unbelievable team and uh you know they've got the great quality up front uh it's a shame about the way that we conceded uh i think after that they had a couple of small chances uh i think after 25 minutes we changed our pressure uh the way we pressed them and it became better uh we had a couple of opportunities especially the one with phil uh but i think the second half was much much better i think we put him under pressure uh obviously the way the first goal goes in is a little bit lucky but i think we played great great football in the second half and uh i think yeah we did well there what was this discussion at half pa half time um just play a little bit more with the ball i think the first half we were too

rushed uh we wanted to go forward too quickly and that's not the way we we we are set up as a team and i think in the second half we did really well um we we've tried to find the spaces more patiently and i think we did that obviously they're really tough team to play against and uh i think uh the the progression we made as a team was uh was good you said your goal had a touch of fortune about it but it's still a killer ball in if if it if it's touched it goes in the goal if it's not touched it's still on target yeah of course uh you know i think it's set up in the perfect position and uh you know i think it's so difficult for the keeper because he always expects somebody uh to touch it but yeah it was great for us and i think we we kept going and obviously with with a second goal with riyadh is good for us but it is still a game to go so we have to concentrate on that sure we were waiting to see you step up

for the free kick did riyad take command well he asked me if he could take it and i say if you believe in yourself take it you know full confidence is on my team and you know he scored the goal so who am i to say something about that the manager's been saying a lot in the build up about enjoying the game enjoying the experience and embracing the pressure did we see that today there was no panic yeah i think so you know obviously we know there's going to be moments in the game where we're going to suffer the the quality at this stage we know how good they are so uh you have to set your mind in that that you're gonna run hard have to work hard for the team and then we we know also that we have quality to to play good against them and you know that's gonna happen in the second game also half the job done thank you very much