Champions League, semi -finals
Crime thriller in London: Arsenal desperate – PSG on final course
Updated on April 29, 2025 – 11:01 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Paris Saint-Germain briefly prevails in a rousing game. An ex-Bundesliga star scores the goal of the evening.
Paris Saint-Germain has come closer to the dream of the Champions League final: The French won 1-0 (1-0) at Arsenal in the semi-final first leg on Tuesday evening and have all the trump cards in the second leg in one week.
Ousmane Dembélé (4th) achieved the winning goal for the guests early on, in an open, fast-paced game Arsenal then had numerous chances of equalizing, but was too imprecise in the end and repeatedly failed due to the glossy PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
The second leg will increase on May 7th in Paris, in the final on May 31st either FC Barcelona or Inter Milan. Arsenal has also never won the most important trophy of European club football.
The game had hardly started when Dembélé already silenced the Arsenal fans. A left -wing shot of the Frenchman, converted into a center forward, landed on the internet over the inner post. In the victory against Arsenal in the league (2-0), Dembélé, who was particularly remembered by BVB because of his strike, was still missing for disciplinary reasons.
Without the injured Kai Havertz, goal scorer against Paris in October, Arsenal initially struggled on the offensive. There was not much to see from the power from the two victories against defending champion Real in the quarter -finals. Instead, Paris was closer to the second goal. Désiré Doué forced Arsenal keeper David Raya to a brilliant parade (31st).
Only shortly before the break, Arsenal finally became dangerous in the now increasingly poisonous game – and how. Only Leandro Trossard (41.) missed, then Gabriel Martinelli failed due to Donnarumma (45th). The 1: 1 would have been deserved at this time.
Shortly after the break, the Arsenal fans celebrated the supposed equalization by Mikel Merino, but the Spaniard was just offside during his header. Little late, Trossard also found his master (56th) in Donnarumma, in the end the Londoners got a little breath. Gonçalo Ramos even had the 2-0 on the foot in the 85th minute.