The reigning French champions resume their victorious march. Held in check by Monaco last Sunday (1-1), the players of PSG went to win clearly in Toulouse, Wednesday, during the 5th day of Ligue 1 (3-0). Despite the good resistance of the promoted symbolized by goalkeeper Maxime Dupé, Neymar (37th), Kylian Mbappé (50th) and Juan Bernat (90th) shook the nets. Paris remains at the top of the ranking on equal points with Lens and Marseille. The Violets are in 13th place.
In the beautiful and boiling atmosphere of the Stadium, the debates got off to a flying start. The Messi-Neymar-Mbappé trio immediately set fire to Maxime Dupé’s area, who courageously resisted (2nd). Positioned low, the Toulousains were also able to place quick counterattacks thanks to a great burst of energy and their center forward Thijs Dallinga called on Gigio Donnarumma several times (5th, 9th).
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Even if he sometimes lacked lucidity, the biting Zakaria Aboukhlal also often showed himself, in particular by going to counter the recovery at the foot of the Italian goalkeeper to obtain a corner on which Dallinga did not frame his recovery from the head (29th ). Toulouse tried to shake up the visitors but also suffered a lot in defense and Dupé had to chain the parades in front of Mbappé (10th, 37th) and Messi (25th) before losing to Neymar, well launched by the Pulga and whose goal was refused and then validated using the VAR (0-1, 37th). Already author of his 7th achievement in L1 this season, his 109th with PSG, the Brazilian joins Pauleta as the 4th best scorer in the history of the club. He would have liked to return the favor to his Argentinian friend but the last bastion of the Violets still intervened (45th).
La Pulga forced Dupé to divert his nice axial free kick at the start of the second period (49th). The former Barcelonan quickly returned to the charge on the left of the zone of truth before feigning the shot to better serve Mbappé who concluded effectively (0-2, 50th). Borrowed against Monaco, the French international found his legs in Haute-Garonne and scored a 5th goal this season. The altruistic Messi could have made a new decisive pass in stride but Neymar missed the target closely while PSG very often sought to play in the axis (53rd).
Two assists for Messi
Apart from a good free kick from captain Marco van den Boomen repelled by Donnarumma (55th), Toulouse struggled to respond. Vitinha was able to try his luck from a distance (61st) and Marquinhos, aligned in defense with the serious Sergio Ramos and Danilo, did not frame his head on the following corner (62nd). Even if PSG eased off, Dupé still had to win a duel against Mbappé (72nd) and deflect a shot from incoming Hugo Ekitike (82nd).
The goalkeeper, on the other hand, could not do anything on the recovery of Bernat, also entered at the end of the match, following a strike from Mbappé on his right post (3-0, 90th). Toulouse suffers a second defeat in a row but will try to react to Clermont. Engaged in an intense series of meetings, PSG and its stars are already looking towards Nantes where another determined goalkeeper will seek to stand up to them.
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