It will have taken time but, ultimately, PSG will have managed to settle its game in the second half against Real Sociedad, this Wednesday evening at the Parc des Princes, and to take a decisive advantage of two goals in this round of 16 first leg. the Champions League.
After Kylian Mbappé opened the score, just before the hour mark, the Parisians doubled the lead a little less than fifteen minutes later thanks to the boy in form of recent weeks: Bradley Barcola.
Barcola's magnificent goal for the 2-0!
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On a sequence that PSG had not managed to achieve at all in a generally disappointing first act: a very rapid change of sides, and a dazzling counter-attack which destabilized the Basque bloc and managed to catch them by default.
In two passes, Ousmane Dembélé on the right put Fabian Ruiz into orbit in the axis, who found Bradley Barcola on the left.
His first goal in the Champions League
The rest is Barcola as we are starting to get used to seeing it: an extremely fast delivery of the ball, a dribble to clear his opponent, in this case a helpless Hamari Traoré, and finally a subtle ball barely kicked with the left foot to beat Remiro and shake the net.
Perfect execution, and a big hurray of liberation in the bays of the Parc des Princes.
This is Bradley Barcola's very first goal in a European competition, he who had already taken part in four Champions League matches with Paris Saint-Germain, but also in two Europa League matches with Olympique Lyonnais in 2021 -22.
Given the talent he has shown recently, we suspect that it will not be the last.