Which game! To the wall after a series of disappointing performances, the Paris Saint-Germain has responded magnificently Tuesday night’s Champions League by offering the scalp of Barcelona (3-2) after an anthology part. Paris takes one shot head Group F and, perhaps, really launched his season.
Laurent Blanc can blow: for at least a few days or weeks, we do speculate about his future at the head of the Paris SG. Pressurized by a series of draws most disturbing about the way in the result itself, the PSG coach lived, as the crowded park, an evening as he had perhaps dreamed, or Anyway imagined, with the arrival a 3-2 win against Barcelona was unbeaten since the start of the season and still has not beaten in C1.
This second appointment European season was considered a turning point for White and PSG, the players in the capital have beautifully negotiated resistant to dry up first Catalan, before making the difference by putting three goals to an opponent who does had yet to concede this season thanks to the quality of their set pieces (and Catalan weakness in this area) and the price of an early second-half removed. Paris had never won a match of the Champions League without Ibrahimovic, who remained in the stands due to “heel pain” persistent, it’s done, not because of his replacement at the forefront of attack, Cavani, yet unfortunate, but thanks to a big collective force symbolized by the enormous work done by Blaise Matuidi an international returned, and three goals by more defensive players.
This success remind some of the March 1995 against FC Barcelona in the quarterfinals of the same C1 (2-1), allowing PSG to take the lead in Group F and a psychological advantage at least on a Catalan team remained threatening to the end . For if Paris was rewarded for his good start to the game by opening the scoring of David Luiz, quicker than Mascherano to take a free kick from Lucas out of reach Ter Stegen (1-0, 10th), he then suffered , conceding 102 seconds later the equalizing goal from Messi, his 68th in C1 (he had not scored for three games) after a wonder collective action, before running after the ball a lot, monopolized by Barca.
But aside from a love of Fishy Messi to Neymar that does not fit its resumption (25th), the Catalans do not show dangerous and worse, show some defensive frailties when PSG begins to grow, especially on set pieces. And it’s almost inevitable in a corner kick right Thiago Motta that Verratti forgotten at the back post by Rakitic, take the missed exit Ter Stegen to offer unexpected guests ahead and register his first goal in the jersey PSG (2-1, 27th). Paris is doing well and keep his advantage until the break before starting the second act perfectly controlling the ball and thinking make the break when shifted on his lane right by Pastore, Van der Wiel to a cross cord cut victoriously at the far post by a pervasive Matuidi (3-1, 54th).
But as in the first period, the Parisian joy is very short, the time for Neymar in the box to receive a lobed cross from Daniel Alves and adjust Sirigu with the help of the right post (3-2, 56th). The end game is suddenly very tense, Paris bends but does not break, like this decisive rescue Marquinhos before Jordi Alba (82) with the outer post Munir (85th) or of such strikes too crossroads Sandro (90 + 1), and finally rejoice at the final whistle.
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