A French-speaking goal on the assist of the former Napoli decides the first leg of the Emits semifinal in London (0-1). Donnarumma protagonist, canceled by offside a goal to the Gunners. In the final crossbar of Ramos
PSG advantage, but it remains the same as possible for Arsenal. The fact that Luis Enrique’s team must thank not only dembélé, for the goal-match, but above all Donnarumma, again providential with its parades, as a best on the pitch, must thank. In any case, next week, at the Parco dei Principi it will be battle, given the physiognomy of the race between two very similar and very determined teams.
Quality
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We could expect a different approach from the Arte Band, which must renounce apart from and then referee Rice in front of the defense, inserting Trossard to make the first atypical tip. Not that the quality is to be despised, but so something turns less fluidly, at least mentally. It is what transpires from a beginning that instead the PSG remains by asserting all its quality, also guaranteed by the presence of Doué from 1 ‘. A sign that Lucho does not intend to take back or start at speed, as he could have done by opting for Barcola, but impose himself.
Censorship
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The signal passes well and the Parisians already in the 4th minute are ahead. As if to punish the hesitant attitude of the Gunners who do not attack the ball carriers, they do not make a high pressing, they do not disturb the opponent’s maneuver, limiting themselves to an wait on the trocar that only facilitates the work of the guests. So when Dembélé takes the ball, he can open undisturbed on the left for Kvaratskhelia who serves him with a nice right outside that the Frenchman takes advantage of the left of the left before, and putting it in the distant corner. A goal that transpires the home team even more, censored by the psg’s intrapardiality, with high marking and high pressing that actually makes any offensive ambition of the Arsenal cag.
Gigio Time
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Beyond the header of Marquinhos (14 ‘), and a diagonal by Kvaratskhelia (26’), Arsenal risks again when Doué concentrates from the left and download the right, dry, powerful. It takes the best Raya again to avoid doubling (31 ‘). And if Neves, with Vitinha and Ruiz dominate in the median, the Arte Band begins to breathe when Saka turns on. Of course, English has to get back in its half of the field to feed the actions and thus at 39 ‘presents itself to Donnarumma who must do extraordinary at the end, to neutralize the conclusion of Martinelli, inserted behind the guest defense right from Saka (45’).
Awakenings
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An action that formalizes the Arsenal awakening. And in fact the goal in the start of recovery arrives immediately, on a backward punishment of Rice from left and Merino’s header, which however is offside (2 ‘). A clear sign of a change of balance. Also because the Arsenal raises the center of gravity of those twenty necessary twenty meters and the PSG no longer reaches the shot. While it takes a monstrous Donnarumma again to avoid the worst. The blue in fact also repeats itself on the very insidious diagonal of Trossard, from the left (11 ‘). But in the end, it is the crossbar to deny the doubling in Ramos, who took over from Doué (35 ‘), shortly after the diagonal from the right of Barcola ended up on the bottom of a whisker. Compelling trailer for the return to Paris.
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