Champions League – quarter -final first leg – The anti -end of PSG -Aston Villa: Goué and Kvara, a big extra thing for Paris

The opening of Morgan Rogers's score for Aston Villa is not entirely anecdotal, since the English will have “only” two goals to catch up at home in the return match. But in the content, it was only an epiphenomenon so much Paris has mastered everything, from the first to the last minute. 75% possession, 29 shots at 7: there has never been a debate. The men of Luis Enrique killed in the egg the vast majority of the outings of balls from the villans and controlled the tempo and leather as they now do against any opponent.

To respond to a setback that might have taken much more magnitude a few months ago, the light first came from two individual exploits, signed Désiré Goué and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, but which were only the conclusion of oiled collective movements, before Nuno Mendes gives a more tasty taste to the evening thanks to its goal of the break. This team knows what she is doing, her intentions were still perfectly clear and readable. But so difficult to counter.

The capital's club was guided by Désiré Doué and Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, both brilliant, to beat Aston Villa Nuno Mendes, he went through all the emotions while the Parisian midfield was still intractable.

Opposite, the Villans have had all the sorrows of the world to exist. John McGinn and Morgan Rogers tried to do resistant, Marcus Rashford weighed too little.

Last season, PSG remained silent during its two matches against Dortmund in the semi-finals, after touching the amounts … six times. This time, they were on his side. The canon of Goué was deflected by the bar, that of Kvaratskhelia by the post. These two strokes of genius were worth many little boost.

PSG has won a 7th match after undergoing the opening of the score this season, said Opta, including 6 in 2025 alone. Topping.

The temptation is strong to insult the eternal uncertainty of football, wondering if the fate of this quarter-final is not already heard, halfway. It must be said that this PSG does not encourage us to prudence. On Wednesday, he still delivered a very consistent performance, in line with what he has been doing for months, and more specifically what he had shown in his evolution in the face of Liverpool.

But to their total mastery of the rhythm, at the blatant harmony of their collective, the Parisians added magic on Wednesday. The one who can sometimes miss when, Tatillons, we start to frustrate a desire for extreme control, and without which the debates would have been a bit different, in the next six days. First there was this hypnotizing shot of Goué, who took his time to get into a leg but who is one of those players who do not doubt, in any case who no longer doubt. This 19 -year -old kid, who nourishes mimicry with Neymar and reminds us just as much Kylian Mbappé, is definitively special, and has passed, on several occasions, to make his copy even more crazy.

And what about the man of the match, the winter recruit Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, which one could swear that he has always played under Luis Enrique, and whose strike at 100 km/h has left Martinez no chance. The two men seemed in balance to accompany Ousmane Dembélé – the usual attack leader – and Bradley Barcola at the start. Finally, it was the former Lyonnais who started on the bench, and the other three that shone, because we will not forget the brilliant pass of “Dembouz” on the goal of the station wagon. With individuals at this level to enhance a collective so sure of its strengths, it is very difficult to fix a glass ceiling on this team, which inflicts the same treatment to favorites as to outsiders. And whose replacements of yesterday allow the craziest dreams for tomorrow.