Paris SG, largely reworked and uninspired, qualified without convincing for the 8th finals of the Coupe de France against an eye-catching Lorient (1-0), Sunday evening at the Stade du Moustoir. It was far from PSG which has scored 41 goals in its previous 10 games, including seven against Monaco in the past week.
The PSG ends up forcing the Lorient lock! Thiago Silva adjusts a center perfectly taken over by Sarabia from the head: 1-0 for Paris!
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Coach Thomas Tuchel, who had already left eight players in Paris including Edinson Cavani, Marco Verratti, Juan Bernat and Marquinhos, has also chosen to keep Kylian Mbappé and Neymar on the bench. After having let Lorient, leader of Ligue 2, build for a few minutes, the Parisians gave a slow pace to the meeting, with an uninspired attack against the defensive block of the Merlus, who spent most of the meeting entrenched in their half the field, until cracking on a head of Sarabia.
"The ball was anything"
Questioned by Eurosport, the German manager had a hard time hiding that he had not spent the best evening of his life at the microphone of Eurosport, "The ball was anything. We were playing against 10 players in their last 22 meters. [… It was a shit game on difficult terrain, ”he even let go with a small smile, before specifying his thoughts at the press conference.
“Lorient played very well, very low, in a 5-4-1 which defended in the last 35 meters. It was difficult to open spaces to be decisive, but we never stopped trying. We checked the counter attacks. You had to be patient, not get angry. The circumstances were not easy, but it is like that in the cuts. "We won and we are happy. We may not have played our best game, but we did what it took to win." And you have to do it again Wednesday night in Reims to go to the final of the League Cup.
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