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Beaten this Tuesday on Tuesday on behalf of the quarter-final return of the Champions League (3-2), but qualified thanks to its advantage of the first leg, against Aston Villa, PSG was very scared at Villa Park, a fact noted by all of Europe.
PSG is qualified in the Champions League semi-finals, this is the main teaching of the Champions League evening on Tuesday evening. Because in terms of their performance, the Parisians were very scary on the lawn of Aston Villa. Living two goals to zero thanks to achievements by the side Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes, Paris lived the rest of the evening in an incessant doubt. Overturned in two minutes on the return from the locker room, led 3 goals to 2, the men of Luis Enrique went back several times to their last rampart Gigio Donnarumma, in very great success.
Asked many times, the Italian managed to hold the barrack in the second period, and offered qualification for PSG (3-2, 5-4 on the two games), qualified for a fourth semi-final in six years. Of course, Paris is in the last square in the Champions League, but the capital team obviously did not escape criticism from the European press.
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The courage of the villans according to the English press
The British press, in its entirety, wanted to mention the exit of Aston Villa of the competition with the honors, recognizing the superiority of PSG in the double confrontation: “They could well become the first team of Paris Saint-Germain to win the Champions League and yet, despite everything that awaits them, their evening at Villa Park lasted 94 minutes, during which they wondered if the old curse was going to knock again. PSG has found many ways to sabotage a promising campaign in the Champions League, and for a moment, a new loss of fatal composure seemed possible. It's a big team, young and ambitious, but even the big teams must sometimes count on an excellent goalkeeper, ”underlines The Telegraph.
A testimony reinforced by the colleague The Guardian, which has also saluted the Parisian demonstration for many months: “Villa showed a lot of determination and, during a golden period, they scored two additional goals by threatening to upset everything, in particular the idea that PSG is currently the best team in Europe, the favorite of the competition they have pursued so harsh for so long.”
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The Spanish press, observer in the event of a new night of drunkenness in Madrid
Now in the semi-finals, PSG will face the winner of the confrontation between Real Madrid and Arsenal. While the Gunners have imposed themselves on the outward journey in its stadium (3-0), Real and all of Spain believe in a new “raised” of the Merengues this Wednesday evening, enough to observe the performance of a future opponent. Greating like many media the performance of Donnarumma, the daily Madrid Marca, “says:”The duel entered moments of absolute madness. Anything can happen. Villa, in great shape, came up against a huge donnarumma which made a crazy stop against Tielemans. If he had been a protagonist in Anfield (in the round of 16) and Wembley (in the Euro final won by Italy), the Italian also wanted to be in Birmingham. PSG trembled, Villa Park was roaring. ”
In the same register the newspaper AS was more demanding, in a critical spirit faithful to that which is known to him, as for the performance of Parisians at Villa Park: “The evening was dull for PSG, which sometimes seemed to be doomed to his umpteenth continental disappointment, while Emery seemed about to carry out another European miracle. (…) They forgot mature and tenacity demonstrated during the previous round against Liverpool. A huge evening at Villa Park, even if it was the visitors who won the final, but it left countless doubts. ”
For its part, the Catalan media Sports World, More concerned by the qualification of Barca, with the first defeat in Dortmund of the Catalan club in 2025, mentioned the performance of the Parisians: “At the disarray of PSG, Aston Villa brought the scoring to 3-2, and Unai Emery clearly indicated that if he should leave this Champions League, it would be by making PSG suffer a lot. “
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Joy measured in France
Regarding the French press, PSG despite its qualification does not make the headlines, but is satisfied with a return to the semi-final of C1 for the second consecutive time. L'Team mentions a “ballottement“On this quarter -final return and supports:”Paris-SG had taken a big step towards qualification with its victory in the first leg (3-1), but the players of Luis Enrique expected another adversity on the lawn of Aston Villa this Tuesday evening. They were very seriously tossed, even on the verge of cracking during a fairly crazy match, where the English found the weapons to doubt this PSG. ”
An analysis fairly shared by the rest of the tricolor sports press as The Parisian, which wishes to highlight the capacity to hold a PSG result: “But even being very bad for an hour, he manages to qualify, the goal after eliminating Liverpool in the previous round. Even if he will have to meditate on his huge void passage in the meeting, Paris presents himself again in the square denier of the event with many more guarantees than last season. ”
Finally, Le Figaro underlines the fear with which PSG maintained the suspense during this return round in Birmingham : “Watch out for relaxation, with some inattention errors, a little ease in the Parisian ranks. (…) As if the Parisians endeavored to want to keep spectators in suspense with their mistakes. Despite everything, the qualification for the last square in the Champions League is acquired. But it was difficult. “
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