PSG lost 3-2 to Villa Park this Tuesday, although having quickly led 2-0, but that was enough to validate its qualification. Back on the individual performance of Parisians on a case -by -case basis.
Donnarumma: His match really started when PSG led 2-0 and the Italian goalkeeper is the only Parisian evening winner, although having conceded three goals. It is impossible to blame him for anything on these three unstoppable strikes, particularly the two deviated, but the quality of his match comes from all his more stops. Because Aston Villa has created a lot of opportunities, including very frank, and Donnarumma released several exceptional stops in the second period, whether against Rashford, Tielemans or Asensio. And to accompany his exploits, he added a rather reliable foot game.
Judge: The Moroccan experienced a complicated start to the match, jostled in duels, but he nevertheless opened the scoring after an action where he had just finished on the ground previously. This opening of the score did him good and allowed him to launch his match but everything was not perfect. The activity was there, particularly in the second period when he often proposed a solution in his corridor, but the defensive part was still an alternative. On the other hand, it is necessary to recognize the vice-captain of having finished the match very well.
Marquinhos: Back in the starting eleven, the Parisian captain found himself asked for the entrance and he signed a simply excellent first half, evenly dominating a Rashford which was starting to be found. But the Brazilian never really returned from the locker room after the break and he started his second period with an error of appreciation which prefaced a radical change. Regularly exceeded by the waves of villa, suddenly less technically reliable, he even almost shed his team with a barely believable error just after 3-2. He is still involved on several occasions then, notably that of Asensio, and therefore signed a most irregular match, with a second period reminiscent of the Marquinhos of cursed evenings.
It is: The match of the Ecuadorian left -hander will always be marked by this incredible rescue in front of its line in the 93rd minute, a reward for its rise in power throughout the game, with in particular a last quarter of very high level. Before this end to his advantage, Pacho had unfortunately deflected two balloons at the bottom of his own nets and sometimes was late or badly read some trajectories. But while he was targeted by the pressing at the start of the game, he always knew how to get out of it and even signed some pretty balls. Overall, its part remains solid.
Nuno Mendes: The Portuguese scored again, and once again a very nice goal worthy of an attacker, and he superbly launched Barcola on the goal of the 1-0 but it was almost all that is positive in his match. Technically, he has often been clean and turning the ball but the defensive part of his match is simply catastrophic. Without an opposing point of reference on its side, the Portuguese was constantly late in its interventions, coming out too often for the time or opening the space behind its back. The miraculous part comes from the fact that it is not specially involved in one of the goals conceded, having however so badly defended.
João Neves: In a match where PSG was sometimes underwater, the Parisian right relay has always hooked itself, doing what it could in duels so as not to flow, but it regularly suffered. Important in the aerial game where his excellent timing was precious, he also had a certain influence in the construction of the game, being superb a few times, as at the start of the 2-0 or on the best opportunity of Dembélé after the break. Unlike Vitinha, he did not flow, but did not shine, however, and he also showed unusual mistakes.
Vitinha: Back in a region that did not give him an unforgettable memory, he has the whole missed his match. Usually regulator of the Parisian game insensitive to the circumstances, the Portuguese has completely disrupted from the moment PSG led to the score and he played in a way that does not resemble him: reckless risk taking, superfluous and useless technical gestures, dangerous balloons of lost. Vitinha played upside down, did not weigh at all defensively in the image of his ridiculous posture on 3-2, and only saved his match by a real rise in power to allow Paris to regain control of the match. But that does little and he personified this decentralized and jostled PSG.
Fabian Ruiz : Like Neves, he never relied in the fight and recovered a large number of balloons in the end, often well placed or using his big legs wisely. Always free and useful for his partners, just with the ball, he was the best Parisian environment but is not impeccable. He is dominated by Rashford at the start of 3-2 and has sometimes disappeared on English highlights but he has never yielded to ease unlike many others. A precious player, which Luis Enrique did not leave.
Kvaratskhelia: Positioned to the right after having shone so much on the left on the outward journey, this change of wing obviously cut off his legs. Little solicited and never managed to find his place, he then lost himself in solo rushs out of words and systematically concluded by ball losses. It is certainly involved in the 2-0 of a nice discount but its contribution was overall very average, if not zero. Passed on the left for the last half hour, it was barely better, like his striking strikes with a completely missed goal. A match to forget, and that he should never have finished.
Dembélé: Aligned alone in the point and frankly isolated, that did not prevent him from weighing on the meeting. Often dangerous in his ability to attack depth, he did not succeed in taking advantage of it because he missed a lot before the goal, particularly in the second period when his individualism was penalizing for his team. But Dembélé, also often just in his passes when he won, had previously been altruistic like his perfect decisive pass on the 2-0. In the pressing, it was also excellent, regularly forcing Aston Villa to free without being able to build. In a complicated context, he signed a very successful first half hour before getting lost like the others and playing a little too far back.
Barcola: Preferred to have gifted and placed on the left, he quickly showed himself interesting in the first period: welcome air presence, actions in well-taken transition and differences made in one-of-one against cash. But he suffered the full whip of the Parisian collective and then he no longer succeeded much, even seemed to be disconnected from the others little by little. When he attacked, the others did not follow often and Barcola found himself too often in impossible situations. His release was a sanction not necessarily deserved, the other offensive being really not better than him.
Gifted replaced him and he quickly got into it. In the fight, the intensity or the technical accuracy, he quickly knew how to weigh on the match even if he did not succeed everything. But he represented better compared to Kvara on the right side and he could even have been decisive since he had some good opportunities. Everything was not perfect but his entry was positive overall.
