For a survival PSG, a well red descent – Liberation
The shock of the knockout stages of the 2024-2025 raw champions League Moved from a one -way match, where PSG made the undisputed leader of Premier League, Liverpool, his thing for … 85 minutes. Until the young Harvey Elliott, who has come into play for a few tens of seconds, drives a corner in Parisian defense after a revival of his own goalkeeper, the Brazilian Alisson, hero of the match for the Reds. The match return to English in six days promises to be electric, as the Reds building appeared weakened. PSG players, who have dominated on all floors – possession, aggressiveness to the loss of the ball, technical mastery -, will nevertheless have to mark, what they did not manage to do this Wednesday at the Parc des Princes, despite an occasions of second -hand and no less than 27 shots.
The legs quickly sees the men of Luis Enrique setting foot on the ball and patiently tightening the embrace. Until lightning fell for good once the quarter of an hour of play. After a horn laboriously returned by the English defense, in the 20th minute, the Georgian Kvaratskhelia, flagship recruit of the winter transfer window of PSG, opens the score with a shot wrapped from the left. But video refereeing concludes that a heel offside is offside. A few moments later, it was Bradley Barcola who is at the duel with his compatriot Konaté, and collapses at the entrance to the surface. But this time, no call for assistance in images. Circulate, there is nothing to do.
The Parisian tide does not refuse and it is Dembélé then Barcola who collide with the Reds porter, Alisson. 0-0 to lemons and maddening statistics, as if the club of the French capital has faced the teams which it reduces to the rank of valve since January (Lille, Brest, Manchester City), and not the one that rolls on the English championship. 67 % possession, twice as many duels won, 12 shots at 1 (!).
The second period retains the same characteristics: long sequences of balloons confiscated in the half of the Reds, recovery at the endorsement, and two players in peinards in the midfield, narrowly breathtaking: Vitinha and João Neves. New fever push to the 80th, when the new entrant, desired gifted, pushes Alisson to relax again to preserve his cages. Mohammed Salah, player of the season for the Arne Slot team, leaves the field after a transparent performance. A 21 -year -old kid, Elliott, takes his place. A few moments later, he marked, on the second shot of the Reds.
