Match-winner Mbangula blasts his own performance as Juve beat PSV

Samuel Mbangula blasted his own performance in Juventus’ 2-1 win over PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League even though it was his late winner on Tuesday which boosted the Italians’ chances of reaching the last 16 of the last 16.

Winger Mbangula forced home his first goal in Europe’s elite club competition eight minutes from the end at the Allianz Stadium to give Juve a lead to take to next week’s second leg of their play-off tie with PSV.

The 21-year-old saved Juve from being stung by Ivan Perisic, who was a fan favourite at the Turin giants’ fiercest rivals Inter Milan and cancelled out Weston McKennie’s cracking first-half opener with a thunderous strike of his own 10 minutes after half-time.

However he was far from happy despite netting such an important goal, annoyed at himself and the passive way Juve reacted to Perisic’s equaliser.

“Sure, I scored the winning goal, but I’m not happy with my performance. I know that I can do much better,” said Mbangula to Sky in Italy.

“When we conceded we needed to keep playing the way we were beforehand because we were in control… With the quality we have in this team if we had kept playing as we had done we could have scored a lot more goals.

“It’s difficult to be happy when you know you weren’t good enough.”

Juve travel to the Philips Stadion a week on Wednesday with a good chance of setting up a last-16 showdown with Inter, who they face in Turin on Sunday night after a third win in as many matches in all competitions.

Either Inter or Arsenal await whichever of these two teams makes it through the play-offs.