The essential
- Finally recovered almost five months after his arrival in the capital, Sergio Ramos will make his debut with his new club.
- Neymar thought to open the scoring in the fifth minute of play but his goal was ultimately disallowed for an offside position.
- The Greens opened the scoring in the 25th minute through Denis Bouanga after verification of video assistance.
The game :
41 ′. GREEN IS IMPERIAL! Another saving stop for Etienne Green in a duel with Kylian Mbappé following an aerial transmission from Angel Di Maria.
39 ′. GREEN COMES IN BEFORE MBAPPÉ! Nice sequence of Parisians who go back from Neymar to Hakimi passing through Messi. The center in power of the Moroccan is not far from finding Mbappé but the Stéphanois goalkeeper is essential.
37′. Neymar wants to launch Bernat who makes a big overflow on the left wing but Mbappé decides to grab the ball instead of the Spaniard. His center is too high to find Neymar’s head.
35′. The gross faults have been linked for a few minutes and Mahdi Camara in turn receives a yellow card for an irregular intervention on Gueye.
33′. The free kick gives nothing and the Greens start a counterattack. Juan Bernat in turn receives a yellow card while trying to stop Adil Aouchiche.
32′. Ryad Boudebouz is sanctioned with a yellow card after crushing the foot of Angel Di Maria who is wrong with pain on the ground.
30′. Snow is falling heavily on Geoffroy-Guichard.
27′. After this blow to the head, the Parisians went straight back to the attack and Lionel Messi was dangerous on the outskirts of the Saint-Etienne area but was slow to arm his shot.
25 ′. THE GREENS OPEN THE SCORE! The pass from outside Khazri goes over the Parisian defense. Timothée Kolodziejczak stumbled over Gianluigi Donnarumma but Denis Bouanga followed the action well and followed up with a powerful strike from the right that the Italian goalkeeper could not stop. After checking a potential offside position on Khazri’s pass, Jérôme Brisard validates the goal.
22′. Behind the Parisian defense, Bouanga is found on a magnificent through pass but is too slow to cross.
20′. Mbappé gets tangled up near the left corner post and finally makes a mistake.
18′. Alpha Sissoko is guilty of an ugly tackle late on Neymar near the sideline. He receives a yellow card while the Brazilian remains on the ground.
16′. PSG offers great connections on its two wings like these successive combinations of the duos Neymar-Bernat and Di Maria-Hakimi.
14 ′. MBAPPÉ GOES ON GREEN! Launched in depth by Bernat, Kylian Mbappé comes to challenge the Saint Etienne goalkeeper and chooses to strike hard but his shot is countered by Green’s leg.
12′. Sergio Ramos contains Wahbi Khazri well in this start of the match.
9′. After this first fear, the Stéphanois try to get back into the game by projecting themselves into the Parisian camp.
6 ′. NO GOAL FOR NEYMAR! Messi throws Di Maria on the right side of the separation area. The Argentine keeps the ball and crosses. Lionel Messi misses his recovery of the right which turns into a pass for lonely Neymar on the left side of the goal. The Brazilian only has to push the ball but he is finally signaled in an offside position.
3′. Di Maria transmits a long cross to Neymar on the left side. The Brazilian gives Mbappé in the axis but the Frenchman cannot find Bernat in the depth.
2′. The Parisians are illustrated by an intense pressing in the midfield in these first minutes.
1 ′. IT’S GOING TO SAINT-ETIENNE!
12:59 p.m. At the state’. Sergio Ramos is the fifth oldest player to make his Ligue 1 debut.
12h57. The players of both teams enter the lawn of Geoffroy-Guichard.
12:55. Claude Puel relies on his players to dare. If he recognizes the difference in level between the two teams, the coach of the Greens hopes that his players will not suffer the meeting. “Even if it’s Paris, we are at home and we need points,” he told Canal +. You have to be even more focused in this kind of meeting, the details are even more important and a small mistake can make a goal. I hope we will not play small arms, we must play with our strengths and this match allows me to gauge my group. “
12:50. Pochettino expects a tough game. Asked at the microphone of Canal + just before the meeting, the Argentinian coach moderated the impact of the weather conditions on the taking of the three points in Stéphane land: “The playing conditions are harsh but when you want to win and be competitive, you have to knowing how to handle this kind of thing and being ready for anything in the head. “
12:45 p.m. Always looking for the right formula for MNM. Expected by all football fans, the trio formed by Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé has rather disappointed since the start of the season despite some rare flashes. In addition to its quest for automatisms to ensure the best possible coexistence and get the best out of each element, the Parisian trident must also learn to participate in the defensive efforts of the collective.
12h40. Mauricio Pochettino in turbulence zone. Despite a long series of league victories and a recent qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League, the Parisian coach still fails to convince. He fishes in particular in the proposed game which is not up to the XXL workforce he has. In recent days, his position has been further weakened by the emergence of rumors sending him to the bench at Manchester United.
12:35. A capricious weather. This trip to the Rhône promises to be all the more perilous for Parisians as the weather conditions are not the most lenient. The mercury displays 0 degrees and a few snowflakes fell on the lawn of Geoffroy-Guichard in the morning.
12:30 p.m. The Greens already slowed down in their remounted operation? After a catastrophic start to the season, the Stéphanois are finally out of the water and have had two successes against Clermont-Ferrand and then Troyes. Extending this series against PSG certainly represents a sizeable challenge for Saint-Etienne but Claude Puel’s men had already come close to the feat during the last confrontation to date between the two teams (3-2 victory for the Parisians in all end of meeting).
12:25. PSG still looking for a game. While the Parisians had finally show an attractive face against Nantes especially in the first period, they fell back into their failures against Manchester City a few days later. For the leaders of the championship, the objective of this meeting is therefore to continue this work of fluidifying the offensive game to finally gain three points with form and especially substance.
12:20. The Greens with Khazri and Boudebouz. For the reception of the leader of the championship, Claude Puel prefers to ensure his rear with a dense 4-4-2. In front, Ryad Boudebouz and the inevitable Wahbi Khazri will have the difficult task of creating opportunities to possibly create surprise. The Saint-Etienne composition is as follows: Green – Sissoko, Nadé, Kolodziejczak, Trauco – Camara (cap.), Boudebouz – Mason, Aouchiche, Bouanga – Khazri.
12:15. PSG with Sergio Ramos in defense and the fantastic 4 in front. Already in the Parisian group for the trip to Manchester earlier this week, the Spanish defender will officially play his first minutes under the Parisian colors. Preferred to Presnel Kimpembé, he will form the central hinge alongside Captain Marquinhos. In front, Mauricio Pochettino decided to renew the fantastic four who had finished the match against City. The Parisian composition is as follows: Donnarumma – Hakimi, Marquinhos (ch.), Sergio Ramos, Bernat – Danilo, Gueye, Messi – Neymar, Di Maria, Mbappé.
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