A small PSG did well, against their weakest opponent in Group H. Led on the lawn of Maccabi Haifa, long sluggish, like their last performances, the capital club was fortunately able to count on his trident Kylian Mbappé-Lionel Messi-Neymar. The three stars each scored a goal to allow the Parisians to score a second success in as many C1 matches this season (1-3). This result, combined with Benfica’s victory against Juventus (1-2) to already see the round of 16.
After a flamboyant start to the season, PSG showed, on the land where they had launched this 2022/23 financial year in style by winning the Champions Trophy against Nantes (4-0), that they are scoring. the pace, game-wise, in recent weeks. After the short success against the Turinese (2-1) last week, and the not really reassuring match against Brest in Ligue 1 (1-0), Christophe Galtier’s players did not spend the evening at all we were waiting.
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Chery scared them
It is necessary to underline, first of all, the performance of the leader of the Israeli championship, who, in an overheated atmosphere from start to finish, first held the dragee high for the finalist of the 2020 edition. very high their opponents, causing a first scare in Gianluigi Donnarumma (5th), the men of Barak Bakhar then forced the Italian goalkeeper to work on a strike from Neta Lavi (11th). While Mbappé started the match by badly negotiating two goal situations (2nd, 11th), the evening quickly looked like a quagmire.
On Sergio Ramos losing the ball in midfield, Dolev Haziza laid down a marvelous cross for Tjaronn Chery, who sent the ball into the back of the net and added a little more heat to an evening when the thermometer was already showing 30 degrees (1-0, 24th). Often unable to control the opposing fury, beaten in the duels, the Parisians initially seemed unable to reverse the trend. But with a flash, Mbappé saw his center on the left side return to Messi, who only had to push the ball deep into the goal at six meters height (1-1, 37th).
But this goal did not put the Parisians back on their feet either, since Omer Atzili missed his shot in the PSG box (43rd), while Donnarumma had to take out a shot from Chery with his left hand (45th). +2). Not really more flamboyant in the second half, the visitors this time made the difference on a pass from Messi for Mbappé, author of his 30th goal with Paris in C1 (1-2, 69th).
At the end of the match where the opponent no longer had the legs to hurt, it was Neymar, on a delight of service from Marco Verratti, who closed the scoring (1-3, 88th). With this 9th success in 10 matches this season, Paris remains as implacable as ever, before moving to Lyon this weekend. But it will be necessary to do more, after the international break, to dominate a very solid Benfica since the start of the season, on October 5th.
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