Donnarumma, Messi and Ramos secured PSG’s lead against Nice in Ligue 1

Dante’s shot missed Paris Saint Germain’s goal by a few millimeters in the second half, after a volley hit the crossbar, hit the post, had a strange effect and finally hit the post again to leave everything as it was on the pitch scoreboard , with Lionel Messi’s 0-1 in minute 26, magnified by Sergio Ramos’ 0-2 in minute 75, and with Donnarumma’s great and decisive saves between one moment and the next with those who lost their leadership in Ligue 1 re-defended.

Nothing convincing, with a victory based on a dominant start to the game, with Messi’s opportunistic goal, with the reassuring Spanish central defender and, above all, supported by the interventions of a goalkeeper who always doubted, but this Saturday irrefutable and indispensable, he added three points so necessary to hold with tense composure the first position that belonged to him from the start, but which suddenly seems uncertain, due to the threat of Lens, at six points.

In that sense, the victory is invaluable. In other perspectives, it does nothing but hide all the constant entanglement that is PSG, in which everything seems to be a mess. Mbappe’s criticism of his own club’s promotional video, the set due date for manager Christophe Galtier, the turmoil of two consecutive defeats at the Parc des Princes, the disappointing game, the future of Lionel Messi.

With his whistle, his extra time (or not), his destination in Barcelona, ​​Paris or Miami in the background, the Argentine attacker answered with the most definitive of all in football, with the goal that opened the victory in Nice, where it was enough for his team to play for a while in the beginning to emerge victorious, with the boost provided by Messi’s goal at the Allianz Riviera. There are already nineteen goals and seventeen assists for the ’10’ at club level this season.

Two minutes later he had already fired a shot. At the age of 26, he finished with his left foot, in the center of the area, Nuno Mendes’ second cross to highlight on the scoreboard what happened then (the same did not happen later) on the field, with all possession and PSG’s dominance against a hostile refugee on its territory, waiting for a counter-attack. Then it disappeared. Just like your whole team. Less Donnarumma.

PSG’s departure was serious. A different situation was the rest of the meeting. From 0-1. In the rush of every setback, even more nonsense at home against Rennes and Lyon, with the concern about the proximity of some pursuers, Lens and Marseille, who seemed excluded not so long ago, in the obligation they feel to win the Ligue 1 to lessen the disappointment of the year, he jumped onto the field to win his game as quickly as possible. And if that is the case, there is no rival in France that can bear it, even if a subsequent reaction like the one he suggested is crushed in the Italian goalkeeper’s reflections.

At first subdued and withdrawn, later rebellious, when the 0-1 was already a fact, Nice fought defeat voraciously, with a number of occasions having earned a draw at one point, when they were already behind in marker.

PSG also has the merit of beating him. They had gone 12 games without losing and had suffered defeat in their last 20 Ligue 1 games, before the Paris club’s 0-1 defeat.

He didn’t need a minimally recognizable version of Mbappé, unknown in his dribbles, because he barely got any; disappeared in the area, as he barely came into play in his facet as decisive as the shot; and insignificant in every sector of the field, when he is one of the most gifted, perhaps with the sole exception of Messi, at least at his height, to point out the differences from midfield. In extra time, to bring their unfortunate game to a head, he sent a very clear chance to the clouds.

He did need Donnarumma, who kept it on the edge of peace and past 0-1. When PSG settled for such a low income, so dangerous; when they gave Nice a margin they had not had before, the goalkeeper appeared, stopping everything, multiplying, skillfully, with an unusual solvency to repel the attack. He denied his opponent a goal on five occasions, including at least two good saves.

Without Renato Sanches, injured in the 12th minute (he had resurfaced in March after a month out of the competition), PSG remained the winner because of the Italian goalkeeper… And because of the crossbar, because of the post and because of the technology on the line the Gol. The image of the ball on the line in Dante’s shot at the beginning of the second half gives many twists, with 0-1; the millimeters that marked the fine line between the triumph or the disappointment of the Parisian club to the 0-2 of Ramos, who stood up more than anyone else and sealed the leader’s victory.

Source: El heraldo

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