2023-09-20 09:45:36
Winner on Tuesday evening of Borussia Dortmund (2-0) to perfectly launch their season in the Champions League, PSG showed a seriousness and mastery throughout the match which, without being breathtaking, had seemed to escape them at this level in recent times. seasons. If football is read above all on the pitch, we can also draw some instructive figures from this match for the Rouges & Bleus.
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Named man of the match, the Portuguese Vitinha – who obtained a rating of 7.5 in our columns – delivered his very first assist against Dortmund with PSG in the Champions League, his 5th in all competitions with the club of the capital (in 54 matches). He confirms his interesting start to the season.
2
This is what we call maximum efficiency: Paris scored on its only two shots on target in the match (17 attempts). The Parisians also hit the post (Vitinha, 19th).
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With Kylian Mbappé and Achraf Hakimi as the only scorers this Tuesday evening, PSG did not raise this figure which is the number of players to have scored a goal in an official match this season. The Bondynois scored 8 out of PSG’s 12 total in 6 matches (2 goals per match on average), compared to 2 goals for the Moroccan and 2 for the Spaniard Marco Asensio.
5
For the first time since October 18, 2017 against Anderlecht, during the 3rd day of the C1 group stage, PSG lined up five French players against Dortmund on Tuesday evening at kick-off: Lucas Hernandez, Warren Zaire-Emery , Ousmane Dembélé, Kylian Mbappé and Randal Kolo Muani. In 2017, it was Alphonse Areola, Presnel Kimpembe, Layvin Kurzawa, Adrien Rabiot and, already, Kylian Mbappé.
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Since its return to the Champions League during the 2012-13 season, PSG have won 7 of their first 12 group matches. The last defeat at this stage is not so long ago: it was on October 20, 2020, at the Parc des Princes against Manchester United (1-2), his… only home defeat in the group stage in the QSI era .
7
Kylian Mbappé equaled a record, yet another, on Tuesday evening: he scored with PSG for the 7th consecutive season, something only Edinson Cavani had managed to achieve before him.
9
If Paris Saint-Germain supporters felt a strange feeling at the end of the match this Tuesday evening, it is completely normal: it was the first time in 19 months, and the 1/8 final first leg of the 2021-2022 season against Real Madrid, that Paris did not concede a goal in a Champions League match, i.e. 9 matches without the slightest “clean sheet”. Last season, Christophe Galtier’s PSG failed to keep a clean sheet once.
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It’s a statistic to read with his new role as set-piece taker in mind in this team, but Ousmane Dembélé, whose match this Tuesday was not necessarily brilliant, delivered 14 crosses against Dortmund. An unusual statistic on the PSG side. He has a successful pass rate of 67.9% (53/78).
113
Achraf Hakimi was absolutely everywhere against his former club. In addition to his magnificent goal, at the end of a high-class collective action, the Moroccan seemed liberated, more and more comfortable in the new role given to him by Luis Enrique further inside the game. He is, Tuesday, the player who touched the most balls: 113. Only two Parisians (Milan Skriniar and Marquinhos) also exceeded the 100 touches mark. Lucas Hernandez (94) and Ousmane Dembélé (91) follow closely.
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