2023-11-29 03:13:45
At the end of the night, added time and Parisian nerves. PSG finally pulled away to obtain a draw thanks to a penalty from Kylian Mbappé, awarded by video assistance, as the referee did not want to give anything to the Parisians this Tuesday, November 28 in the evening.
While a horizon in the Europa League seemed promised, PSG remains alive, still capable of qualifying for the round of 16 of the Champions League. He is 2nd this morning and can even get first place on December 13 in Dortmund. He has his destiny in his hands, his feet, all the still active parts of his tottering but upright body.
Parisians don’t deserve much better
It would be a reversal of history, in a totally crazy group and suspenseful until the end. We will therefore have to beat Dortmund, the leader, on the last day. Until the last minute, this group had its head upside down with the ranking with the two favorites in the last two places. Obviously, Paris can still lose everything, in the sense of only grabbing the Europa League.
We will therefore have to show ourselves big, well, at least once, it wouldn’t be too much, in two weeks in Dortmund to grab everything that passes, the C1 preferably. At this stage, after five matches in the most prestigious of club competitions, PSG does not deserve much and the Germans appear more solid and more likely to have the Champions League codes to finish first.
PSG does not exist on the outside, does not respond in duels, does not find its best element in the game – Kylian Mbappé, the complete opposite of Didier Deschamps’ Blues – and does not particularly display strength of character . Yes, they are a Europa League team, at best, for now. Getting a last-second draw against Newcastle at the Parc des Princes is not a success.
It’s the kind of question that remains eternally unanswered but we would have liked to know what match we would have had without Gianluigi Donnarumma’s new error. A priori 0-0 at the break. Before the ball, Paris had made a good start, impactful right-wing movements with the duo Achraf Hakimi-Ousmane Dembélé, and opportunities with a recovery behind his supporting foot from Kylian Mbappé (9th) or countered strikes from the former Barcelonan.
Without Dembélé in Dortmund
But he also messed up a lot technically, with a dominated midfield where Fabian Ruiz once again became the player of last season, heavy and borrowed.
Above all, Alexander Isak’s goal extinguished them, the Parisians, the supporters, everyone. After half-time, the lack of reaction was obvious and we had to wait for the hour changes to find some semblance of a team. Luis Enrique placed Bradley Barcola on the left and refocused Kylian Mbappé.
However, it is in the position of the passer that the captain of the Blues will serve his young partner for a point-blank recovery from the knee by the goalkeeper (66th) before the ex-Lyonnais tries his luck again in the following minute, with a naive shot from a tight angle. At the start of added time, a third “easy” one will be missing.
But, even clumsy, the entry of the young Espoir better distributed the danger while the referee Szymon Marciniak, the one in the 2022 World Cup final, did nothing to change his reputation as a man who doesn’t really like the French. In Dortmund, Paris will have to do without Ousmane Dembélé, one of the six informed Parisians.
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