Female Champions League: PSG defeated by Chelsea

Parisians will have to pull themselves together on Wednesday against Real Madrid, the other big team of group A.

Le Monde

This is a new setback for a French female club in the Champions League. After Olympique Lyonnais, laminated 5-1 Wednesday October 19 by Arsenal, the women of Paris Saint-Germain bowed 0 to 1 against Chelsea on Thursday. A bad start of the competition that Parisians will have to erase next Wednesday against Real Madrid, the other row opponent of group A.

At the Jean-Bouin stadium, the PSG players seemed less organized, less dangerous and less inspired than the “blues” led by Millie Bright, the evening rider (27 e ). They have never really seemed to annoy the opponent’s plan.

Coach Gérard Précheur found himself deprived of the Dutch wing Lieke Martens, sick. Without this former player of FC Barcelona, ​​recruited this summer for this type of shock, the team seemed very harmless and often disoriented.

The right corridor of the attack was surveyed by the young central milieu Laurina Fazer, at the origin of a rare attempt against the goal (49 e ). And in this organization, Parisians sometimes walked on their feet or had trouble finding themselves, in addition to lacking success in their passes.

Kheira Hamraoui on the bench

Offensively, the semi-finalists of the last three editions have shown almost nothing. Behind, they underwent the activity and the finesse of the attacker Sam Kerr, untenable in pivot, as energetic as it is precise, of the qualities which earned him, Monday, his third place in the Ballon d’Or.

If the Australian did not deceive the vigilance of Sarah Bouhaddi, Bright has taken care of it. The sacred defender this summer at the Euro with England, left too free by Elisa de Almeida in the second post, resumed a flying center of Erin Cuthbert (27 e ).

The Parisian midfielder, quite exceeded in the commitment, did not benefit from the reinforcement of Kheira Hamraoui. The 32-year-old sentinel was back in the group for the first time since its sidelining, mid-April after a quarrel in training, but preacher kept it on the bench.

Wednesday, PSG will have to pull itself together against Real Madrid: earlier in the day, the Spaniards won 2-0 among the Albanians of the Vllaznia Shkodër, which places them at the top of the pool, equal points With Chelsea.