Tonight, Paris Saint-Germain became the first club in the history of the UEFA Champions League to beat the Catalina’s in three conservative European away matches after completing a comeback in the first minute of added time.
Despite the fact that both teams were missing key players, the game started at a frenetic rate. PSG were always a threat with Illia Zabarnyi almost powering one past goalkeeper Szczęsny from a corner. After a failed attempt by Ferran Torres in which his goalbound effort was cleared by Zabarnyi, the Spaniard was able to give Barca the lead in the 19th minute with an amazing assist from Marcus Rashford.
Barcelona’s dominance was on the rise as the game approached the 30th minute. Bradley Barcola missed out on a tremendously great opportunity just before Wojciech Szczesny was on full stretch to stop Achraf Hakimi’s free kick.
Another surge shortly ended in Senny Mayulu getting the equalizer.
Play resume with Barcelona being sloppy thereby easing thing for PSG. Hakimi made a goal-line stop from Olmo. Hansi Flick then made a triple change to ease things up.
PSG made several advances at goal but timely interventions from Pau Cubarsi and Ferran Torres kept them at bay. They almost got a second when Lee Kang-in smashed a shot against the foot of the upright. The visitors put up all the late pressure and got a breakthrough when Gonçalo Ramos exposed Barça’s high line which resulted in the winner.
Next Fixture
This win maintains PSG’s record of just one lose in their last seven UCL games with six wins. Meanwhile Barcelona no longer boast of just one lose in their last 12 home matches in the group/league phase of the competition.
Barcelona will now return to La Liga to face Sevilla this weekend while PSG will turn their attention to Ligue 1 where they will get on the road to face Lille.
