• This Saturday evening in a Parc des Princes on fire, PSG will try to qualify for the Champions League final, after their defeat in the semi-final first leg in Lyon (3-2).

  • The consequences of the Hamraoui case, excluded from the group for a week, continue to weigh down the atmosphere within the Parisian group.

  • Despite this, the Parisiennes can afford an end to the gala season.

The Bayern Munich of the 1990s, with its confusion (Matthaüs-Effenberg) or its slaps (Lizarazu on Matthaüs) proved it.

No need to be a group of friends or girlfriends to carve out a nice track record.

And it's not bad for the women's PSG, who are playing their Champions League semi-final return home this Saturday evening after their narrow defeat in the first leg last Sunday in Lyon (3-2).

Despite the upheavals that have shaken the group since Kheira Hamraoui's attack on November 4, in the presence of his ex-friend Aminata Diallo, the Parisiennes are moving forward.

If they have probably lost their scepter of champions of France, with five points behind OL three days from the end, they can reasonably hope to afford a third Coupe de France (final against Yzeure, D2 team, the May 15 in Dijon) and therefore play a third C1 final after those lost in 2015 and 2017. They would then probably find the girls of Barça, defending champions and without pity for Wolfsburg (5-1) during the other half- final go.

🏟 The Parc des Princes continues to fill up on the eve of #PSGOL!



🎟 Don't miss this historic @UWCL semi-final, and come support our #Feminines to earn a place in the final!

❤️💙#ICICESTPARIS

— PSG Women (@PSG_Feminines) April 29, 2022


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“We can hate each other outside, but on the ground, you have to manage to win, dropped last Saturday in

L'Equipe

Grace Geyoro, half-captain, half Blue Helmet.

I tried to ensure that everyone could feel good on the pitch.

» Patatras, in the wake of this interview full of wisdom and on the eve of the first leg against OL, Hamraoui got confused badly with his teammate Sandy Baltimore.

An endless soap opera

The gap, already gaping between the former Barcelonan and most of her colleagues, Diallo, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani in the lead, became a chasm.

The following ?

Dismissal of Hamraoui for the double shock against Lyon and continuation of the legal soap opera, almost six months after the still mysterious attack on the 32-year-old player: custody of a man finally released without any charge is brought against him, then anger of Diallo's lawyer, who formally denied that this person could be close to his client, as initially indicated.

Inevitably, this bag of knots was invited this Friday in the press conference of Geyoro and coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle.

“All the players say it, we lived a year that was not easy, dropped the international midfielder in a sweet understatement.

We stayed strong in our heads and focused on our goals.

"We went to draw this strength and that's what makes us here today," she added.

However, all these penknife strokes in Parisian living together have repercussions on certain individual performances, as proved by Baltimore's disappointing match at Parc OL.

“Sandy found herself indirectly at the heart of a story that often happens in football, pleaded Ollé-Nicolle.

It's a clash in training, she had never been confronted with that.

It certainly shocked her and she did not perform as well as she was capable of in Lyon.

»

40,000 spectators at the Park, a record

The conductor of a detuned ensemble, however, wants to see in Baltimore's extension until 2024, formalized on Wednesday, a reason for hope.

“It is very important that she signed at that time.

All these positive waves are interesting for her and for the team.

»

"Positive waves" is all PSG needs at the moment, as the club is struggling to extend its star Katoto (17 goals in D1 this season), at the end of the contract, which inevitably involves a departure from Hamraoui.

The more than 40,000 people expected this Saturday evening at the Parc – a record for a women's club football match in France – should broadcast for at least 90 minutes, to help their proteges against the eternal rivals Lyon.

It remains to hope for the Parisiennes that their goalkeeper Barbora Votikova, involved in the three goals in the first leg, has a less catastrophic evening.

This would make you forget that she was only the understudy of the Canadian Stéphanie Labbé, before the hasty retirement of the Olympic champion in January, due to "mental wear".

Yes really, PSG is having a funny season.

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