Considered one of the best goalkeepers in Ligue 1 during the 1990s, Christophe Revault passed away on Thursday at the age of 49.
He had participated in 530 games with the pros while keeping the cage of Le Havre, Rennes, Toulouse and PSG for one season, between 1997 and 1998. Here are the three most significant meetings of his career.
April 14, 1993: PSG-Le Havre (1-0)
Christophe Revault is playing his first D1 match against PSG at the Parc des Princes.
Replacing Fabien Piveteau, he took advantage of his teammate's warm-up injury to put on the gloves.
Its score is almost perfect.
He will disgust the Parisian attackers and in particular the future Golden Ball, George Weah, who will miss three duels against the Le Havre goalkeeper.
Revault will bow only once to Ricardo, but this meeting has put him in the spotlight for the rest of his career and was decisive for his arrival at PSG, four years later.
August 27, 1997: PSG-Steaua Bucharest (5-0)
This is one of the capital's biggest achievements on the European scene.
Parisian supporters remember this success of PSG in the return leg of the preliminary round of the Champions League against Steaua Bucharest (5-0), after a setback on the green carpet in the first leg (3-0) for having aligned Laurent Fournier then suspended.
PSG then managed a comeback by scoring four goals in the first period by Raï (twice), Marco Simone and Florian Maurice.
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At 2-0, Christophe Revault, who was playing his first European match with the Parisian team, brilliantly diverts a free kick from Romanian Rotariu in the top corner (26th).
In the second half, PSG worsened the score by Raï once again and qualified for the group stage of the Champions League.
October 22, 1997: Bayern Munich-PSG (5-1)
Christophe Revault is part of the Parisian training victim of a shipwreck on the ground of Bayern Munich (5-1), during the group stage of the Champions League.
His responsibility was engaged on several Bavarian goals.
“This game is without a doubt the worst I have experienced in my entire career.
Personally, I had been catastrophic, he told So Foot, in August 2020. I was a young goalkeeper at the time, I had perhaps put too much pressure on myself for this meeting.
On the first ball I touch, I take a goal behind.
And, then, it was chained ... "
Vincent Fernandez, his theoretical double, is then preferred to him during the season and he logically leaves the club in the capital at the end of the year.