Successful debut for PSG in this final phase of the 2020-2021 Handball Champions League.
By winning (37-24) this Thursday in Celje, at the Slovenian champion, the capital club has assumed its status as favorite and has already taken a decisive step towards qualifying for the quarter-finals.
With these 13 goals ahead, the return match next Thursday at Coubertin should only be a formality for the French champion.
What you must remember
Despite a week and a half without competition, due to several cases of Covid in their ranks, the Parisians did not delay to find the rhythm which has been theirs since the beginning of the year.
Deprived of Mikkel Hansen, its Danish world champion, PSG takes only seven minutes to take the measure of its opponent (6-2), thanks in particular to Ferran Solé, its Spanish international (6 goals in total).
The gap then stabilizes between 4 and 5 lengths, before the new boost from the players of Raul Gonzalez (17-8, 22nd).
At the break, the case is heard (21-11).
The second period does not change the physiognomy of the game.
Dylan Nahi has his hands on fire and Vincent Gérard, in his cages, never ceases to disgust the Slovenian attackers (13 saves in total).
Elohim Prandi and Benoît Kounkoud complete the work of undermining and Paris signs its second largest victory in the competition, after that against the Norwegians of Elverum a month ago (44-29).
The player: Dylan Nahi
This is not the first time that the 21-year-old winger has distinguished himself in the Champions League.
His performance this Thursday in Celje is close to perfection: 10 goals on 11 shots, a success rate of 90%.
Guillaume Gille, the coach of the France team, had summoned him initially for the last TQO (Olympic qualifying tournament), before sending him home.
The situation will perhaps finally change for the native of the capital, who will play in Kielce next year.
The number: 9
That is the number of victories (in 9 matches) of PSG against Celje in the Champions League, since their first confrontation in October 2015. With one exception (in October 2019), the French champion has always scored at least 30 goals against the winner of the Champions League 2004.