{"id":676287,"date":"2026-05-31T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676287\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:27:09","slug":"a-boring-team-that-did-nothing-but-defend-sir-alex-ferguson-rips-into-arsenal-in-congratulatory-message-to-psg-president-nasser-al-khelaifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676287\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A boring team that did nothing but defend&#8217; &#8211; Sir Alex Ferguson rips into Arsenal in congratulatory message to PSG president Nasser Al-Khela\u00effi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 110<\/p>\n<p>Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson congratulated PSG president Nasser Al-Khela\u00effi after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2026\/player-ratings-psg-1-1-arsenal-champions-league-title-remains-in-paris-after-penalty-shoot-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Enrique\u2019s\u00a0Les Parisiens\u00a0went back-to-back in the Champions League<\/a>. A year after their 5-0 dismantling of Inter Milan in Munich, PSG went the distance in Budapest against Arsenal. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 cancelled out Kai Havertz\u2019s early opener, and the Ligue 1 champions won the penalty shoot-out after both Eberechi Eze and Gabriel went off target.<\/p>\n<p>PSG now have won as many Champions League titles as Ferguson did with the Red Devils. The former Manchester United manager also took the opportunity to criticise PSG\u2019s opponents on Saturday. As expected, Mikel Arteta\u2019s Gunners went above and beyond to frustrate PSG with a near-perfect defensive display that was not at all to Ferguson\u2019s liking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Actualites\/Quand-sir-alex-ferguson-felicite-le-president-du-psg-nasser-al-khelaifi-et-tacle-arsenal-apres-la-finale-de-ligue-des-champions\/1680560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">L\u2019Equipe\u00a0<\/a>reports that the Scot sent the following message to Al-Khela\u00effi: \u201cNasser, this is Alex Ferguson. Well done, it was a tough night for you, but you played against a boring team that did nothing but defend. Enjoy your holidays, you deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson\u2019s comments echo those of Jo\u00e3o Neves, who said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2026\/we-deserve-it-because-psg-were-the-only-team-willing-to-play-joao-neves-aims-dig-at-arsenal-on-the-back-of-champions-league-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSG were the only team \u201cwilling to play\u201c<\/a> a Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GFFN<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BastChev\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bastien Cheval<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"110 Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson congratulated PSG president Nasser Al-Khela\u00effi after Luis Enrique\u2019s\u00a0Les Parisiens\u00a0went back-to-back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-676287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}