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With its long history, Manchester United brought Paris Saint-Germain down to home

 




French club Paris Saint-Germain will host at the (Princes' Garden) the upcoming summit that brings it 

together with Manchester United in the first round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

The runners-up of the past edition, Paris Saint-Germain, is seeking victory in the first round to pave the way for the top of the group, as Manchester United is the biggest obstacle in the face of Parisians in view of the other teams in the group.


Motives motivate the two teams to win

((Revenge)) is the title of the meeting for the French after the historic Remontada of the Red Devils.


The two teams met in the first leg of the 16th round (2019) at the (Old Traford) stadium, a match that saw the Parisian team outperform two goals without a match, to return the Red Devils in the second leg of the same round, a historic Primontada that overturned expectations by beating Paris Saint-Germain by three against one goal, A win removed the Parisians from the UEFA Champions League calculations and qualified the Red Devils to the quarter-finals at the time.



 

As for Manchester United, he wants to avoid the failures and negative results at the local level, especially those borne by the coach (Solskjaer) by winning over Paris, a victory that could make the English fans forget their team’s failures as well as reduce criticism of the team’s coach, an opportunity that Solskjaer must stick to in order to convince the fans and management that he is Deserves the position of coach of this ancient team.


The start of the game

Summary of the first half

An expected scenario, a Parisian attack and a Manchestero defense, with the use of spaces to create apostates, and the surprise was that Paul Pogba was not a mainstay in the formation of the Red Devils. The risk started with a shot from (Di Maria) in the 12th minute, which was blocked by (De Gea).


Seconds later, Kurzawa could have added the first goal had it not been for the ingenuity of the Spanish goalkeeper, and in a surprise shot that missed the fatigue of the Parisians, the referee whistled a penalty kick for Manchester United after the defender of the Parisian team had obstructed (Martial). Bruno Fernández presented her with a response (Keylor Navas) to be repeated. After it became clear that Navas had advanced from the goal line, registering it and announcing that his team had advanced with the first goal.



 

A few minutes later, the same player tried to surprise the Costa Rican goalkeeper with a beautiful shot, but the latter was alert to it, followed by many attempts by the Parisian team that did not pose a threat to the devils' goal.

The first half ended with Solshire's tactical superiority over Tuchel.


The events of the second half and its end

Tuchel started the second half by inserting (Kane) to play with a frank spearhead after he missed him in the first half, and by Parisian pressure to add the equalizer, this was evidenced by the first serious opportunity in the 48th minute by (Kylian Mbappe) who dodged two players and aimed the ball to the left of (De Gea) The latter refused his goal.


To continue the Parisian pressure for the 55th minute, the equalizer with friendly fire came through (Anthony Martial) after a corner by the Brazilian (Neymar). After the equalizer, the Manchester players left their areas trying to advance again. They almost added the second goal through a corner ball, but the Parisians were fortunate that (Martial) header slightly higher the crossbar.



 

To ignite the atmosphere of the meeting, and the desire to win became evident on both teams, a shot here and another there by Rashford and another for Neymar, but without shaking the net of any of them, so Rashford fired his last shot in the hearts of the Parisians with a powerful shot to the left of (Keylor Navas) that hugged the net in the 87th minute. Announcing the progress of his team with the second goal.

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