It was… Paris in the second half and left Sociedad with the impressions!

On Wednesday (14/2), the Paris Saint Germainwhich prevailed 2-0 welcoming her Real Sociedad in the “Parc de Prince”.

In a game, in the first part of which the Basques were clearly the ones who won the impressions, even having beam (45′ Merino).

Despite this, Luis Enrique’s team took… forward in the second, cleaning up with them Mbappe (58′had and beam at 64′) and Barcola (70′).

It should be noted that the 21-year-old midfielder scored his first goal in football’s top European club competition, in which he also made his debut Beraldo (winter transfer acquisition of the Parisians for 20 million euros from Sao Paulo)

On Tuesday, March 5, the rematch.

The match:

Real Sociedad showed their mood almost from the… locker room! And that’s because threatened before the first minute was completedwith the ambitious shot caught outside the area by Andre Silva.

In the next quarter, Paris tried to use its strong “weapon”, the counter attacks, thanks to the speed of its attacking midfielders. Best of all in this part, of course Mbappe who missed huge opportunity in 6′when he received the nice vertical pass from Dembele, leaving with the… thousand on the counter, to step into the area and execute, but seeing Remiro to put a “stop” on it.

It was a quarter that the Basques presented some defensive gaps. Logical of course given the quality of their opponents. At the same time, however, they played aggressive defense, they were pushing high and remained threatening. While slowly after 10′ they also started to close the spaces very well.

In fact, they then had two more important opportunities with his maneuver and shot Kubo in the 18′ and his header Andre Silva in the 22′, after the first one’s cross. To answer the 35′ Paris with his head Barcolain a phase for the same after time.

In any case, it was the visitors who had won the first half. And… they sealed that impression with the greatest moment of the half, that is, with the shot caught by Merino out of range at 45′with the ball hitting the horizontal beam to the confluence!

Paris entered the second half better, with Mbappe not to catch the best possible finish at 50′.

At that point, the hosts started to put their game firmly into play static phases. And they cashed it in 58′. THE Dembele take the corner, o Marquinios caught a backward header from the height of the first ten, with the Mbappe to throw out to second, to open the scoring (1-0) with a close-up view.

Luis Enrique’s side not only did not take their foot off the gas, but instead increased their pressure for a second goal. And he found it!

First, he warned the 64′ answering to beams with his powerful shot Mbappe, with Remiro also finding the ball with his fingertips. To come to 70′ The Barcola to execute a nice puck from the left by emptying his opponent and nibbling the ball for it 2-0!

At no point did Sociedad manage to get back into the game, clearly affected. In the 82′ his shot Thubimendi from the boundary of the area was misplaced, that of Kolo Muani in the 87′ also and so the 2-0 remained until the finale.

Watch the match live here.

MVP: What if he didn’t have a goal or an assist. From his feet began Paris’s best moment in its -bad- first half, as of course both of its goals. The separation to Dembele.

The compositions of the two teams:

Paris Saint-Germain (Luis Enrique): Donnarumma – Hakimi, Marquinhos, Danilo (72′ L. Hernandez), Beraldo – Zaire-Emery, Fabian Ruith, Vitinia – Dembele (82′ Mouani), Mbappe, Barcola (72′ Asensio).

Real Sociedad (Imanol Alguatil): Remiro – Traore, Thumbeldia, Le Normand (78′ Pacheco), Galan (88′ Araburou) – Mendez (78′ Turrientes), Thubimendi, Merino – Kumbo, Andre Silva (78′ Sadik), Barenetsea (66′ Zakarian).

The referee of the match was Marco Guidawhile VAR his compatriot, Paolo Valeri.