After a bad start of the match, PSG was able to react but was held in check on Wednesday on the third day of the group phase of the Champions League (1-1).
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Occasion missed, for PSG, to take the head of group H in the Champions League alone. At the Estadio Da Luz, who really did not succeed, as in the final of this same competition in 2020, the Parisians were jostled by Benfica on Wednesday October 5 (1-1). Christophe Galtier’s men showed defensive gaps but were able to count on the lightning lights of Lionel Messi and the decisive judgments of Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Faced with a team that also won its first two oppositions against Juventus Turin and the Maccabi Haïfa, this third game in the group phase had everything of a test for Parisians. Yet warned, the red and blue were still surprised by the intensity put by the LisBoets from the start of the match. With a high pressing and a lot of commitment, the Aigles highlighted the defensive feverishness of Paris-Saint-Germain, with a defense with three altered in the absence of Presnel Kimpembe, injured. Under pressure, Christophe Galtier’s men have been stifled for more than fifteen minutes, with difficulties in emerging, and can thank Gianluigi Donnarumma, decisive five times on reflex stops in the first period.
The PSG is still based on Messi
And while the Parisian midfielder was also suffocated by the LisBotic pressing, PSG was able to rest on its three offensive elements, and especially Lionel Messi, to get the head out of the water. Against the course of the game, on the second Parisian strike, the Argentinian opened the scoring of a sublime rolled strike (22 e ), while Kylian Mbappé and Neymar were less in sight Lisbon. This pretty unexpected goal has put PSG back in the match, and the Parisian club gradually resumed possession of the ball, without however concretizing its highlight. On the contrary, Benfica took advantage of the passivity of the Parisian defense to equalize, on a goal against his camp of Danilo Pereira (41
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Parisians returned with better intentions after the break, and also took advantage of the drop in rhythm of Benfica to settle in the Portuguese camp. More fair in their transmissions, they put to the contribution of the Lisbon goalkeeper Odysséas Vlachodímos, without succeeding in deceiving him a second time.
“We are still playing to win, but it was a difficult match. We suffered a little during the first fifteen minutes, but then we started to master. I think that in the second period we have the opportunities to mark , but when you can’t win, you shouldn’t lose, “reacted Marco Verratti at the end of the meeting at the microphone of Canal+. The Italian environment can once again thank his compatriot, Gianluigi Donnarumma, vigilant until the end of the game to postpone an attempt by Rafa Silva (80