The beautiful - and perhaps historic - Parisian weekend is off to a great start! At the end of a long undecided and closed match, the players of PSG won (2-1), this Saturday in the Anoeta stadium in San Sebastián (Spain) empty due to health measures, against the English d 'Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-finals. They will face their eternal rivals Lyon - who beat them in the final of the Coupe de France two weeks ago - in the semi-finals at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao on Wednesday.
On the eve of the awaited final of the Champions League between their big Parisian brothers and the Germans of Bayern Munich, the girls of the club of the capital carried out, them, their entry in the running in the event which is contested in the form a final 8 in which each match is capital, cleaver. A formula that brought happiness to the partners of Kylian Mbappé. The day before the match, at a press conference, Olivier Echouafni had also summoned the spirits by insisting on the fact that "the course of the boys" should "help" and "inspire" his players. "We really wish them the apotheosis, the Grail, to lift this magnificent cup," said the Parisian coach. If we too can follow the same path, it would still be quite magical, and historic for Paris. He was right!
Thanks Katoto
Inspired, the French are the first to shoot. On a corner, Marie-Antoinette Katoto opened the scoring with a powerful recovery of the right in the small net (1-0, 15th). His 5th goal in three games in this competition launches PSG perfectly, which seems to have mastered the subject. But the English patients end up deceiving the Parisian vigilance. At the limit of offside - it is in any case the decision of the referee who does not benefit from the VAR -, Arsenal makes speak the powder and returns to equality following a goal from Mead (39th).
Despite good intentions after returning from the locker room, the partners of the Swiss Ramona Bachmann - tenured for her first outing with PSG - do not manage to deceive their opponent. Diani (74th) misses his duel against the English goalkeeper. The suspense is unbearable, unbreathable. Every action can be fatal. But like his counterpart Thomas Turel, the coaching of Olivier Echouafni will prove to be a winner. After Choupo-Moting, who had played the savior by scoring a few moments after coming into play for the boys against Atalanta (2-1), it was the Danish Signe Bruun who donned the Wonder Woman costume. Barely two minutes of presence on the lawn the attacker scores on a pass from Katoto. Double finalist of the event in 2015 and 2017, the women's PSG is still in contention to play a third European final.