It’s always the same story and we love it endlessly, never getting tired of it. Paris always comes back from limbo and it succeeded once again this Thursday by equalizing at the last second (2-2) against Marseille who thought they would win their first title in 14 years. He steals him at the last minute, from his nose and beard, with a particular flavor therefore, believing himself lost, abandoned of his usual gold.
The incredible reaction of the Parisian bench to the equalizer and at the end, ecstatic as he won everything in 2025, and the explosive joy of Gonçalo Ramos, tell better than words the rivalry between Paris and Marseille, the absolute animosity, the hunger for titles also of PSG, never finished. Current series.
The affair was decided on penalties, like the last three finals of the European champions – the European Super Cup, the Intercontinental Cup and this Champions Trophy. And as always, the goalkeeper, here Lucas Chevalier, was magnificent, stopping Marseille’s first two attempts. All that remains is to put them on and the hero Gonçalo Ramos, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes and Désiré Doué were precise, exact and punctual. They are very PSG deep down.
The great idea of moving into a new year remains resolutions. In a club, moreover, where history happened for the first time, in January 2026. A year later, some are already no longer the same, like Lucas Chevalier, hero of this Champions Trophy before committing a foul in the area costing a penalty and an equalizer at 1-1. But before his error, due to a hesitation when going out on Mason Greenwood, he was sensational, only reduced to the cruelty of the post where blunders are worth more than parades. The penalty shootout erases everything. Before his fault, the former Lille player put in a fantastic performance, regularly disgusting the Marseillais, from Leonardo Balerdi to Paixao via Amine Gouiri, with his head and foot. Resolution number 2, it concerns Ousmane Dembélé, scorer on his first two outings in January, which is reminiscent of his performance last season. He told himself to become an influential player again and for the moment, the result is smiling on him. His clever little lob reveals that he is reconnecting with his touch, his sensations, his sense of purpose, all the good news his team needs.
If the achievement of the Ballon d’Or was not followed by surges of Parisian offensives, it is because the Parisian midfielder suffered as best he could, that is to say badly, in the face of the fury of Marseille, unleashed and accumulating corners. Which undoubtedly kept Chevalier in the game, as hot as a chestnut at a Christmas market. As the Champions League approaches, when they will meet the English again and it will be soon with the arrival of Newcastle at the end of the month at the Parc des Princes, the Parisians will be accustomed to the exercise of set phases after this bludgeoning.
OM lives up to the bill
OM, in any case, after its inaugural joke against Nantes (0-2), lived up to a Champions League poster. In the engagement as in the game, the Southerners showed that their upward trajectory in C1 had a solid base. They would have deserved to equalize before the penalty. Seeing them in front until the equalizer on the gong, during the last Parisian breath, was not theft. But they came across the Phénix Parisien. If they want to talk about it, they can get their ticket to group therapy, with Tottenham and Flamengo.
