Revenge, Kylian Mbappé scored both goals in PSG’s victory against Real Sociedad in the 8th return of the Champions League.
You shouldn’t upset him too much. Because when he is annoyed, Kylian Mbappé can be very bad. He proved it again this Tuesday evening during the second round of the 8e Champions League between PSG and Real Sociedad. Inspired, the Bondynois scored two superb goals, allowing his team to qualify without too much difficulty for their first quarter of the premier event since 2021.
Mbappé put on a show
A little doubt had arisen at the start of the evening concerning the presence of Mbappé on the field for this meeting. Finally, he was there to lead the youngest team in PSG history in C1. And he did it with great efficiency and personality.
Aligned on the left side of the attack, the former Monegasque enjoyed taking advantage of the spaces left by the Basques behind them. From the 15e minute, he found the flaw. An exceptional action, in which he shows his speed, his ability to eliminate and also the surgical side of his strikes. After feigning a defender, he found the small net of the opposing post. A Mbappé-style achievement.
There was no longer any doubt that it was going to be his evening. Even if obviously the rest of the team also rose to the occasion. The score delivered even came close to perfection with this 4-3-1-2 pattern in which Ousmane Dembélé wandered around as a false nine. Luis Enrique knew how to find the ideal formula so that his team had total control of the debates and without ever being worried behind or almost.
A PSG unplayable for an hour
Until the break, the score did not change. But he could have. Bradley Barcola failed to score in the 9the and Mbappé also came close to a double in the 29the. For the Parisian captain for one evening, however, it was only a postponement. At 56e minute, he managed to secure the break. At the end of a very high level collective sequence, he beat the Basque goalkeeper a second time by closing his right foot on a low shot.
For the supporters who took their place in the Anoeta enclosure, the last hopes of a comeback were then gone. The gap is too big between the two teams and the locals did not have a player of Mbappé’s class to be able to catch up. They still managed to keep up appearances, thanks to a goal from Merino in the final moments of the game. Real Sociedad will therefore have no regrets about this confrontation, but it may still regret having presented itself at the worst time on the path of the French crack, motivated more than ever. That said, there is a strong chance that this will not be the last team to suffer the wrath of Parisian number 7.
