Twelve seconds. Twelve seconds were enough for the ball to pass from the feet of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the Parisian area to those of Gonçalo Ramos, on the exact opposite side of the field.
Thursday evening, Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions Trophy against Olympique de Marseille (2-2, 4-1 on the tab) thanks to two saves from Lucas Chevalier during penalties, but the Parisian goalkeeper would not have had the opportunity to shine so late, if the capital club had not pulled off an extraordinary action to equalize in added time.
In the 90th + 5, Willian Pacho made a crazy clean intervention to stop Aubameyang. The Ecuadorian passed the ball directly to Nuno Mendes to clear the danger once and for all. The Portuguese served his compatriot Vitinha at the heart of the game. And magic was involved.
No offside
From his camp, the midfielder made a magnificent opening of more than 30 m in the race of Bradley Barcola. Amir Murillo let him slip away, Benjamin Pavard was attracted by the drop of Ousmane Dembélé, the way is clear. With a header, the left winger puts in a touch for Ramos. The latter spent the entire action in an offside position, with the exception of the moment when Barcola sent him this decisive pass.
“He is offside at the start of the action, but Bradley Barcola is not and as Ramos is not served directly, he is put back into play at the time of his partner’s cross,” former international referee Bruno Derrien confirmed to us. Without asking any questions, the Portuguese striker redirected the ex-Lyonnais’ service into Geronimo Rulli’s net with first intention.
In four passes, PSG navigated from one end of the field to the other. The capital club scored without the ball touching the ground in the Marseille camp. A goal of rare technical mastery and superb coordination between the elements of the Parisian collective, despite the 90 minutes already spent on the pitch and the pressure of the result. As a good supersub, Ramos was fresh and lucid.
