Obviously, the showcase continues to fill up and it's always good to take in a month of preparation for the Champions League and domestic trophies to glean. With 13 French Cups won, PSG further consolidates its lead over Marseille, which has ten, and once again asserts its power on the national scene. Thiago Silva, Marquinhos, Verratti and Kimpembe join Sommerlinck, Bathenay and Roche with five individual cups, the record. All that is good, but PSG did not dream of this evening made electric.
This morning, Paris has two injuries, less than three weeks before its major meeting against Atalanta Bergamo, on August 12, in the quarter-finals in Lisbon. Two men on the side, almost irreplaceable for various reasons. Thilo Kehrer, victim of a shock on the hip and replaced by Colin Dagba (20th), occupies the position of right back because PSG and Thomas Meunier could not agree on a two-month extension. But the real concern is elsewhere or increases considerably when it touches one of the stars of the club in the person of Kylian Mbappé.
It's very simple: to disrupt its rise in power, Paris had three pitfalls to slalom: a defeat in the national cups and the injury of Neymar or Mbappé. He has one of his three problems, with the ankle screwed up by the world champion by a Loïc Perrin totally overwhelmed and logically expelled.
A shovelful of players without juice
Nothing can be worse now for Thomas Tuchel's team than this soap opera for the next few days around the King of Bondy. His package for Lisbon would be a disaster. While waiting to know, this burning unforeseen becomes a huge stone in the shoe of the club of the capital, sportingly (without him, it's not the same story) and media (the soap opera).
In Lisbon, it will be necessary to add the suspension of Angel Di Maria to add to the gloomy decor of this first official match in France for more than four months. Meeting during which, the partners of Thiago Silva, preferred to Presnel Kimpembe, displayed their athletic limits of the moment, with a shovel of players without juice, expected in form in Portugal.
The Parisians suffered from the constant pressing of the Greens who should have scored first but victims of Mbappé's speed when he could still play. Neymar will resume under the bar for the only goal of the match at eleven against eleven (14th). Saint-Etienne at ten, Paris really managed to gain the upper hand. But the game is not the concern of the moment.
Match sheet
Referee: M. Delerue.
Spectators: 2805.
Goal. Neymar (14th).
Warnings. PSG: Paredes (29th), Bakker (29th), Verratti (31st), Marquinhos (35th).
Saint-Etienne: Mason (2nd), Moulin (29th), Hamouma (29th), Camara (37th), M'Vila (51st), Fofana (90th).
Expulsion. Perrin (31st).
PSG: Navas - Kehrer (Dagba, 20th), Marquinhos, Thiago Silva (cap.), Bakker - Di Maria, Gueye, Paredes (Verratti, 75th), Neymar - Mbappé (Sarabia, 33rd), Icardi. Entr. : Tuchel.
Saint-Etienne: Moulin - Debuchy, Fofana, Perrin Kolodziejcziak - Mason, Camara (Neyou, 46th), M'Vila, Bouanga - Boudebouz (Bamba, 75th), Hamouma (Khazri, 46th). Entr. : Puel
