A shock before time. For this 2nd day of the Championship of the Championship of Champions, PSG went to the lawn of Montjuïc to face FC Barcelona. Some saw a catch -up of the finished final of last year, others a revenge of the quarter -final of 18 months ago. However, it was only a meeting of the start of the first round between two contenders for the final victory. This beautiful poster was still upset by the many absences in Paris. Marquinhos, Dembélé, Goué, Kvaratskhelia and even Neves during the warm -up declared, while the abutments had almost everyone, except Joan Garcia, Gavi and Fermin Lopez.
Arrived a little in outsiders, the reigning European champions had a lot of trouble entering this match. The last-minute tenure of Zaïre-Emery in the midfield was felt. The Barça de Lamine Yamal took matters into hand, like roulette after less than a minute of play only from the Dauphin of Dembélé au Ballon d'Or. The public accompanied each movement of his team by “Olé”, as on this splendid exterior of the left of Yamal for Torres. The favorite striker in Lewandowski erased knight who was out for time but saw Zabarnyi returned to disaster to repel on his line (14th). Paradox of this start of the match, the inexperienced collective Ile -de -France was tangled and ended up falling on an error of one of his tauliers.
PSG hits the teeth and returns the situation
Vitinha's loss of bullet at 40 meters was immediately sanctioned in three passes by Torres at the conclusion (1-0, 19th). The young Mayulu, Mbaye and even Barcola did not weigh heavy so far but slowly the players of the capital straightened the bar, were proud in the image of this free kick from Hakimi (30th) or this authoritarian duel won by Nuno Mendes on Yamal. The Portuguese could even have been the source of an expulsion from Jong on this against where the Var did not seem good to request a verification of Mr. Oliver (32nd). The left side may have a box, he saw others and still sounded the revolt on a huge breakthrough of 60 meters where Cubarsi passed through his pass and offered Mayulu an attempted equalization that he did not miss (1-1, 38th).
The revival of form was confirmed. We could even speak of Parisian domination, while Barcola lacked the frame to give the advantage to his own before the break (42nd). Always a little disappointing on the return from the locker room, the leader of the attack failed again, this time, on SZCZESNY (53rd). Another grilled ammunition when the debates were balanced after the hour of play. The smell of KO was slowly rising in the spans. Zabarnyi then Hakimi saved their team in front of Olmo then Torres (64th), while Ruiz's taupated attempt, where he was injured by the arms of Szczesny (70th). The entrants Lee, Ramos and the neophyte Ndjantou Mbitcha in turn tried to switch the end of the meeting. The Korean even shattered the post at the end of a solo number (83rd). After the head-on head of Nuno Mendes (86th) and a hot alert in the area (89th), a last tumble from Hakimi allowed Ramos to crucify the Barça at home (1-2, 90th). PSG has a prestigious success, despite all its injured and took 3rd place in the Champions League. A real success of European champion.
