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PSG-Nice (3-1): Paris respects its flight plan

2024-03-13T22:33:02.253Z

Highlights: PSG secured their ticket to the semi-finals of the Coupe de France with a 3-1 win over Nice. Luis Enrique's troops did the job to grant themselves the right to host Rennes, on April 3. It has been three years since PSG was no longer playing on all sides at this time of the year. We should be delighted to see it, with its ten points lead, both playing the peacock in championship and continue to frolic in the national and European Cups.


Despite a slump lasting a quarter of an hour during which he was scared, PSG secured their ticket to the semi-finals of


The event is not really one.

But since we have to rewind hard, go back three years to (re)find traces of his footprints in the last four, the qualification of PSG, this Wednesday evening, for the semi-finals of the Coupe de France did not in reality above all, nothing trivial or anecdotal.

Because it has been three years since Paris was no longer playing on all sides at this time of the year, we should be delighted to see it, with its ten points lead, both playing the peacock in championship and continue to frolic in the national and European Cups.

Two days before knowing, on Friday noon, their opponent in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Luis Enrique's troops did the job to grant themselves the right to host Rennes, on April 3, in the semi-final of French Cup.

It remains to be seen what we should remember, above all, from this qualification which is undoubtedly a bit more complex than the scoreboard would have you believe (3-1).

Faced with this OGC Nice which is today the only one to have brought down Paris on the national scene this season (2-3, September 15), these Aiglons who remain the last, also, to have come to steal a qualification for the Parc des Princes, the championship leader took his revenge in a big way.

As if to support the words of a coach who had promised a much stronger PSG at this time of the year, it is a PSG in "boa constrictor" mode, of those who take great pleasure in suffocating their prey, in deprive them of oxygen by looking into her eyes, which flew over the first half hour of play.

Mbappé played the whole match

As is often the case - but not for long - it was Kylian Mbappé, aligned for the third time in a row on the left flank, who started the hostilities.

After a magnificent one-two over the defense with Fabian Ruiz, the Parisian captain crucified Bulka with the tip of his foot (14th).

A seventh goal for him in four Coupe de France matches - the thirty-fifth of his season - which put Paris on a royal road.

Faced with the frightened, ghostly people of Nice, Fabian Ruiz in fact did it again, ten minutes later.

Thanks to the all-terrain pressing of Ousmane Dembélé pushing Bulka to make a mistake, the Spaniard doubled the lead and, we thought, established the ultra-domination of his team.

But if Paris undoubtedly has the talent to monopolize the ball, it also has this incredible flaw of knowing how to put itself in danger despite its insolent possession.

As if the light had suddenly gone out in Paris or turned back on in Nice, the Aiglons shook their opponents like a handstand, managing to reduce the score with a strike from Laborde (37th).

A thrill of a quarter of an hour, at the end of the first and beginning of the second that Nice was unable to capitalize on to make Paris doubt more.

On the contrary, after this slack, Paris will regain its splendor, definitively liberated by the first goal of the Brazilian Beraldo, effective on a cross from Vitinha extended by Dante (60th).

Paris is still running.

Source: leparis

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