Lisbon (AFP)
Quarter-final badly started for Paris SG: the Parisians, tasteless, returned to the locker room for half-time with a goal behind Atalanta Bergamo (1-0), Wednesday in Lisbon in the Champions League.
Mario Pasalic sickened Parisian goalkeeper Keylor Navas with a curling shot in the 27th minute, after a blunt defensive intervention from Presnel Kimpembe.
Atalanta had provided several chances before, stumbling over an excellent Navas.
On the Paris side, in the absence at the kickoff of Kylian Mbappé, capable of playing "more or less thirty minutes" after his ankle injury according to his coach Thomas Tuchel at the microphone of RMC Sport just before the match, Neymar s' is multiplied but has shown great clumsiness.
In particular, he incomprehensibly missed a very open face-to-face with opposing goalkeeper Marco Sportiello from the start of the match (3rd), then a second a little more off-center just before the break (42nd). For the rest, PSG was far from justifying its status as the favorite of the meeting, against the surprise team this season disrupted by the coronavirus.
For this first quarter-final of the "Final 8", the final phase of the competition played in a shortened format, behind closed doors and under high health surveillance, the Parisians dream of a first qualification for the semi-finals for 25 years in this race. event, on the club's 50th anniversary.
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