PSG started playing only when Kylian Mbappé entered the field.
Goalscorer Kingsley Coman greeted the former home crowd. PDO
PSG was badly broken.
The first year of the Parisians had been full of sadness and grief. When by Christophe Galtier the group made it through the fall completely without losses, there had already been four since the turn of the year.
Brass stars Marquinhos, Neymar and sports director Luis Campos were caught up in each other’s grudges after the recent Marseille defeat.
– Such things happen. I also argue with my girlfriend, but we still continue together, Neymar reasoned.
– Football is not just love. Sometimes arguments make the game better.
With these starting points, PSG went into the Valentine’s Day Champions League classic against Bayern Munich.
Galtier didn’t really send his team calling to war. PSG packed their players in front of their own goal and didn’t even try to hit Bayern’s armor.
The opening period was almost historically bad, as PSG got only one shot into the statistics. That was too Leo Messi’s in overtime, a free kick that crashed into the away team’s wall.
Coman solved
PSG’s performance was so passive that in the stands of the Parc des Princes it was suspected that the blue shirts were just waiting Kylian Mbappé entering the field.
According to French newspapers, the superstar would have been fit for no more than 20 minutes. However, Galtier had to advance the calculated substitution moment, because in the 53rd minute Kingsley Coman warmed the ball straight out of the air into the PSG net.
Coman, who was born in Paris, grew up in PSG’s junior mill, so he didn’t air his hit at all.
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Kylian Mbappé brought more power to PSG’s attacking game. PDO
However, the setback sent a wave to the bench, and Mbappé ran onto the pitch just four minutes later.
Little by little, the Bayern suit too Yann Sommer was called to work. In the 73rd minute, Mbappé broke through the Bavarian defense, but the Swiss drew a longer shot in the duel.
A little later, skipper Marquinhos was able to score from Messi’s corner. However, the ball went straight into Sommer’s lap.
AC Milan won
No one understood why PSG didn’t play like this from the start.
Mbappé thought he had already leveled the match in the 82nd minute, but VAR noticed the situation By Nuno Mendes a thin offside.
The pressure grew, and Messi had time to raise his hand to ventilate before he saw it Benjamin Pavard with his block to save the wide back from Bayern’s counterattack.
From the next attack Changeling Shit missed a sure shot.
Nothing helped. Bayern grabbed a 1–0 win to take home.
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The ball goes from PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma’s armpit and into the net. PDO
Fortunately for PSG, the quarter-finals of the Champions League consist of home and away matches. The return part marked for the eighth day of March is still ahead, and Pavard, who fooled himself into the shower with two warnings, will not play in it.
In the second match on Valentine’s Day, AC Milan also took a slight 1-0 advantage over Tottenham. The only goal of the opening half was already scored in the seventh minute by a Spurs vesker by Fraser Forster after an inconceivable double defense.
In the latter, however, he could only lift the ball high into the air and defy gravity Brahim Díaz pounced to put it into the net.