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The game: 5 minutes that could have been fatal
After a first hot stroke by Marcus Rashford, Paris literally took the water for five minutes, from the equalization of John McGinn (55th) via the third goal of Ezri Konsa (58th), until this huge parade of Gianluigi Donnarumma on a Tieleman's head (60th). The men of Luis Enrique then gradually took out the head of the water while continuing to take serious strokes. And avoided the worst scenario.
The players: Grazie Gigio, Kvara missing
Gianluigi Donnarumma held the hut when some of his teammates like Vitinha played upside down. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia spent a very difficult evening just like a Willian Pacho far too relaxed.
On the Villans side, Marcus Rashford, very legs, has done a lot of trouble in the Parisian defense, while the entrant Marco Asensio missed the mark.
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Gianluigi donnarumma, très good on its pleneous of Asotn Villa
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Factor X: When Aston Villa misses the mark
If Paris temporarily brought down the temperature after the two successive goals of the villans, the English created two consecutive opportunities to tear the extension in the same 70th minute of play. Freshly entered, Marco Asensio lost his duel with Gianluigi Donnarumma. Then Konsa, absolutely alone on a free kick from Rashford, missed the ball of the head, at close range. To a hair, literally, to tip everything.
To the state: 9
As Opta indicates, PSG will play its 9th European Cup semi-final (5 in the Champions League, 3 in the Cups Cup, 1 in the UEFA Cup), a new record for a French club, OM being 8. The Ile-de-France club is also in the last square of the C1 for the 4th time in 6 years.
The Decon: Ousmane Dembélé (Canal+)
You have to be demanding, especially in these matches. We gave the task difficult even if Aston Villa has put a lot of pressure on us. What happened? We saw each other too beautiful, at 2-1 we thought we were qualified, that it was over. But it's the Champions League. This match will serve us enormously, not to relax. We will have to get back to work.
The question: a big fright … But a form of progress?
Let it be said: the third goal scored by Konsa brought us back to dark hours from Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, from Barcelona to the Parc des Princes, against Manchester United. This team, which seemed so sure so sure of its strength, so capable of controlling events in any configuration, facing any opponent, is suddenly returned to normal, for a few minutes.
Between the balloons lost by some, the duels lost by the others – sometimes in a naive way, as on the third opposing goal, and the ambient feverishness, Paris opened the doors of a crazy scenario, and awakened Villa Park in spite of itself, under pressure, it must be said, a team of Unai Emery with very different intentions of the first leg. As if all the certainties accumulated so far had soared in a few minutes.
Except that this time, Paris cashed the blows without finishing KO because some technical leaders have been able to get back to the place, that the entrance to Désiré Doué notably did good, that Donnarumma released the big game and that Villa, too, has sometimes lacked lucidity, the French champion made the end of the meeting more bearable, even passing close to (re) shelter. Everything except a detail. We will remember that Paris has suffered enormously on a quarter -final return from the Champions League outside against a beautiful team, which is not a priori a scandal. But that he knew how to qualify for a second semi-final in a row, not repeating the mistakes of the past, which is a real accomplishment. Paris has gone close to disillusionment, but he learned. To finally grow well.
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