.jpg)
3 hours ago
1 ARTICLE AD
Stress could have been more important this evening in Stuttgart for Paris Saint-Germain. Thanks to his victory against Manchester City (4-2) last week, the players of the capital gave themselves the right to play the eighth day of the Champions League by their destiny in their hands. Twenty-second in the ranking, the red and blue club had pushed a large relief phew at the Parc des Princes. After two victories, a draw and three defeats, the champions of France have long been excluded from the Top 24. Success against the Skyblues had therefore allowed the men of Luis Enrique to reverse the trend during the Money Time. Reduced from the good side of the barrier, Paris only needed a draw to compost her ticket for the dams of the competition. Ditto for his opponent, which had logically given rise to smoking theories on two teams ready to be satisfied with a point sharing before the start.
On paper, Luis Enrique nevertheless aligned the typical team. Except Nuno Mendes, suspended and replaced by Lucas Hernandez, PSG holders were there. Gianluigi Donnarumma in the cages, Achraf Hakimi, Marquinhos and Willian Pacho in Defense, Vitinha, Warren Zaïre-Emery and João Neves in the middle and, finally, the trio Ousmane Dembélé-Bradley Barcola-Désiré in attack. And these three made a bad luck. From the outset, the champions of France have shown that they were not impacted by the pressure linked to the evening scenario. Dominators, the Ile -de -France residents immediately took control of the leather to run a team from Stuttgart who never gave the image of players fighting for a qualification. It was not until six minutes to see the PSG take the lead. On a Dembélé corner, Barcola took advantage of a gifted acrobatic assist to beat Bredlow from the head (0-1, 6th). The Calvary of the Germans could then begin.
Dembélé offered himself the second hat -trick of his career
All in control, Paris made Stuttgart suffer in all areas. Technically and stronger superiors in all duels, Hakimi's partners were also able to make the difference at the right time. As on this exceptional Donnarumma judgment on a strike from Fürhich, after a flash of Leweling (16th). A more than decisive XXL parade since, in the process, Barcola deposited Vagnoman against, before going to offer the goal of the station wagon in Dembélé (0-2, 17th). Untenable, the Dembélé-Doué-Brarcola trio had not finished with a German defense at the absent, especially on the sides. If Gouté was not likely when he saw Bredlow stop on his line his attempt after a new Barcola offering (31st), Dembélé was merciless when placing yet another right side acceleration, before going to shoot The opposing porter of a law missile (0-3, 35th). At halftime, PSG had done the job and could quietly look at the ranking to get an idea of its potential opponent in the 16th finals.
Upon returning from the locker room, the qualification was acquired for visitors, but no question of relaxing. Only 23 seconds after kicking off the second period, Dembélé took advantage of his speed to send a dangerous rolled strike (45th). Often criticized in recent years to want to manage your advance instead of supporting where it hurts, Paris has changed behavior. And Dembélé has finally become the effective player we expected. Author of 7 goals in his last 5 games, before this trip to Stuttgart, “Dembouz” managed to afford his hat -trick (the second in his career), well found by a Hakimi surrounded by opponents in the penalty area (0-4, 54th). A goal there again symbolic since he arrived at the time when Stuttgart had a big highlight. What confirm that nothing could fight against Paris this evening. Four minutes later, Goué could have boiled the addition more, but this time, Bredlow watched over the grain (58th). Ditto for Gonçalo Ramos, on a center of Fabian Ruiz (74th). Stuttgart still ended up saving the honor by Führich, well served on the left side by Mittelstädt (1-4, 77th), to the chagrin of Luis Enrique and Donnarumma, who hoped to return from Germany with a clean-sheet. A small annoyance, but Paris will accommodate it. After having spent a major part of the C1 league phase outside the qualifying places for the dams, PSG succeeded in a beautiful final sprint by winning its last two matches with the way. After the 22nd to 15th place in the ranking, Paris is now waiting to know the team that will stand on its way in two weeks.
