Offensive Festival! To close its group stage of the Champions League, the PSG, already qualified for the eighth, did not make any details against Galatasaray (5-0), Wednesday, December 11, at the Parc des Princes. The defensive weakness of the Turkish club was largely exploited by the brilliant offensive trio Mbappé-Icardi-Neymar Paris.
It was first the Argentine goleador Mauro Icardi who opened the ball, pushing deep into an offering of Kylian Mbappé (33rd) after an opening of Neymar. Then the Brazilian shifted the Spanish winger Pablo Sarabia, scorer of a cross shot (35th), before launching the untenable Mbappé, scorer at the bottom of the post (63).
Meanwhile, Neymar had himself scored, served by a heel of the French world champion (47th). And to finish the evening in style, the best scorer in the history of PSG Edinson Cavani, stationed on the bench for several weeks, converted a penalty celebrated by the entire team (84).
5️⃣ wins
1️⃣ zero
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This success allows Paris to complete its group stage on a near-perfect record of five wins and one draw. What will be among the seeded, Monday, in the draw for the round of 16 in Nyon, Switzerland, where there will be only clubs of the five major leagues (Spain, England, Italy, Germany, France) for the first time in the history of the Champions League.
In the eighth, the Parisians can not fall on the Real, the opponent of the top hat second, or Lyon, two clubs from the same country can not compete before the quarter. But Tottenham, finalist last season and now coached by Jose Mourinho, Atletico Madrid, Naples, Dortmund or Chelsea are all conceivable, as well as the modest Atalanta Bergamo, the club of Serie A who is preparing to play the eighth for the first time in its history.
With AFP
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