Kylian Mbappe was nowhere near his best v Barcelona again but he sent PSG into the last four of the Champions League. He did have two silly Barca players to thank, mind.
Kylian Mbappe was nowhere near his best the second week in a row against Barcelona but he scored the goals to send Paris Saint-Germain into the last four of the Champions League, which makes 180 minutes of mediocrity irrelevant. He did have two silly Barca players to thank, mind.
The Uruguayan may deserve the benefit of the doubt because he had a decision to make in a split second with a very fast footballer running in on goal, but we are not giving him that. His first-half red card turned the tie on its head with Barcelona leading 4-2 on aggregate. It was not Mbappe forcing the issue, although he had two big chances in the first half, Barcola and Dembele were carrying the PSG attack while Vitinha and Fabian Ruiz were trying to influence what felt like an inevitable comeback for the Parisiens.
Dembele failed to properly control a pass which meant he was going nowhere dangerous with the ball, in our eyes anyway. Joao Cancelo obviously felt there was an imminent danger to Ter Stegen’s goal as he blindly dived in and gave the referee no choice but to award a penalty, which only one man was going to take.
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