Put Milan’s defeat behind you. This was PSG’s mission this Saturday in Reims during this 12th day of Ligue 1. A double-edged trip because the opponent is tough, 4th in the championship at kick-off time, even if they had to make without Teddy Teuma, but he can also instill additional confidence in the event of a positive outcome. Despite the absences of Hakimi, Kolo Muani and Asensio, the capital club also wanted to continue its series of 4 consecutive victories, which could allow it to take first place from OGC Nice, author of a draw yesterday in Montpellier.
Luis Enrique’s 4-4-2 with Soler and Mukiele on the right and left of the defense struck from the start. Dembélé’s cross on the right side allowed Mbappé to open the scoring with a magnificent volley (0-1, 3rd). Picked cold, the Rémois did not give up. They even inflicted terrible pressure on their opponents, who had the greatest difficulty getting the balls out cleanly. Ito even thought of quickly equalizing before being flagged for offside (7th). A foretaste of an almost one-sided first period during which Donnarumma would disgust the Champagne attackers.
Mbappé lethal, Donnarumma sickening
In turn, he intervened on Ito’s free kick (22nd), and made high-class saves in front of Richardson (41st) and Agbadou (44th), who had not caught the target a little earlier (34th), just like Munetsi (20th). The only downside is this restart error which could have been very expensive (30th). Already very good at San Siro in the Champions League last Tuesday despite an unfavorable context, the Italian continued his festival. Returning from the locker room, he was once again impeccable on his line in front of Okumu (56th). Yet another decisive save since a few moments later, Mbappé scored the double on a service from Soler (0-2, 59th).
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With their break in advance, PSG had done the hard part but Reims was not yet giving up. Marquinhos replaced his goalkeeper on this one-two between Munetsi and Daramy (61st), then Donnarumma disgusted the unfortunate Munesti one last time twice (71st, 77th). In the meantime, Diouf had saved his team on this recovery from Mbappé (67th) but he ended up losing a third time against the 2018 world champion on this service from the incoming Barcola (0-3, 82nd). He still prevented the quadruplet (85th); very meager consolation prize. Reims lost heavily at home and especially saw PSG take 1st place in Ligue 1 before the international break.
