It’s at lunchtime that PSG must regain their taste for victory at the Parc des Princes. And it’s not just symbolic. The Rouge & Bleu in the Rose & Mauve version absolutely need to take all three points. Mauricio Pochettino deprived of a host of players – Keylor Navas (shoulder), Abdou Diallo (calf), Marquinhos (thigh), Juan Bernat (recovery), Alexandre Letellier (thigh), and suspended Neymar, Gana Gueye and Leandro Paredes – opts for the strategy that paid off in Strasbourg (1-4). It is therefore the freshness in addition to the defections that condition the eleven: Rco, Florenzi, Kehrer, Bakker, Herrera, Rafina, Sarabia and Kean start the match. Danilo Pereira returns to midfield.
Match thread
PSG started this meeting with good intentions, playing a lot on the right side, but without really creating danger. At the 28th minute, Sarabia shoots an almost perfect free kick from 26 yards on the post! Green was beaten. The first shot on target comes in the 36th minute by Rafinha, but the Stéphanois goalkeeper quickly goes to the ground to deviate. In the 42nd minute, Mbappé goes to goal, strikes, is tackled from behind in the area, but nothing says Mr. Buquet. 0-0 at the break. The meeting starts again on the same bases. In the 58th minute, Mbappé tries the free kick, without success. In the 67th minute, Verratti, Di Maria and Icardi come into play instead of Sarabia, Rafinha and Kean. But in the 78th minute, on a cross from Trauco, Bouanga passed Kimpembe to score. In the process, Mbappé equalizes (79th, 1-1) with a dazzling control-strike. In the 86th minute, Mbappé goes too fast for Green who mows him down. The striker converts the penalty! He wins the match on his own. But no, because a coiled strike badly repelled by Rico is taken by Hamouma (2-2)! In the process, a corner from Di Maria smashes the post. Then a center of Di Maria at the last second finds Icardi’s header for the 3-2 !!!!!!! Shattering return of the Argentinian.
PSG / ASSE match sheet
33rd day of Ligue 1 Uber Eats – Sunday April 18, 2021 at 1 pm | Streamer : Canal + Sport | Referee: Buquet | Warnings: Neyou (57th), Kimpembe (85th) | Goals: Bouanga (78th), Mbappé (79th and 87th sp), Hamouma (91st), Icardi (95th)
- PSG: Rico: Florenzi (Dagba 77th), Kehrer, Kimpembe (c), Bakker – Herrera, Danilo, Rafinha (Verratti 67th) – Sarabia (Di Maria 67th), Mbappé, Kean (Icardi 67th)
- Alternates: Franchi, Kurzawa, Pembele, Draxler, Simons
- Manager: Pochettino
- ASSE: Green – Debuchy (Moueffek 56th), Moukoudi, Cissé, Trauco – Camara, Youssouf (Nordin 46th), Neyou – Monnet-Paquet (Bouanga 46th), Hamouma, Khazri (Aouchiche 68th)
- Alternates: Fall, Abi, Sow, Gourna-Douath, G. Silva
- Trainer: Puel