The players of Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the group stage of the Champions League by winning 2 goals to 0 on the ground of the Swedes of BK Häcken, Wednesday in Gothenburg, in a play-off return. As in the victory of the first leg at the Jean-Bouin stadium (2-1), the Parisians scored through the Dutch Lieke Martens (53rd) and Kadidiatou Diani (60th).
Paris is one of the twelve teams from the play-offs which join Lyon, defending champion, Barcelona, finalist, Chelsea and Wolfsburg, champions of England and Germany, in the group stage, the draw of which will take place on October 3 in Nyon. . Parisian coach Gérard Prêcheur was still deprived for this meeting of striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto, in rehabilitation after her knee operation. And since Sunday, he knows that he will have to do without the Polish Paulina Dudek for a good while, victim of a rupture of the ligaments of the right knee against Fleury in the league (2-1).
Very ordinary first half
Finally, Kheira Hamraoui, who had watched the first leg from the stands, was still not part of the group on Thursday. Removed from the Parisian group at the start of the season, then reinstated on September 20, the French international should only play again at the beginning of October, according to Prêcheur. Her Parisian teammates, after a very ordinary first half, without much rhythm or very clear scoring opportunities, raised their level in the second half and ended up logically finding the opening twice.
Lieke Martens, first of all, opened the scoring with a flat right foot on the reception of a cross from the right of the Swiss Ramona Bachmann, then Kadidiatou Diani put hers definitively in the shelter by taking advantage of a disagreement between Josefine Rybrink and her goalkeeper Jennifer Falk on a cross, always coming from the right, from captain Grace Geyoro.