Categories: Football

0-1: Lille unhinges PSG and takes the lead

Lille, with a goal from Canadian Jonathan David, beat Paris Saint Germain in the Parc des Princes, which lost the leadership of the France Ligue 1, now in the hands of his rival.

The duel reflected a powerless and resourceless champion as shown by the expulsion of Neymar, in the last minute, for pushing an opponent when he had a yellow card.

The relevance of the clash that brought together the first two classified, matched to points before the start, prevented the Argentine coach from Mauricio Pochettino will reserve one of its main players for the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League against him Bayern Munich.

He went out with all the PSG. With Neymar starting for the first time after his injury, Kylian Mbappé and the Argentine Angel Di Maria. Also the Italian Moise Kean. The transalpine Marco Verratti, with coronavirus, was low in the premises.

The Paris saint germain, who suffered his third loss in a row at home, ended up unhinged and without resources against an opponent who knew how to play his tricks and handle the match especially with the score in favor.

It was at twenty minutes when the set of Christophe galtier got ahead. Jonathan David he received a ball from Nanitamo Ikoné and fired. His shot was deflected by the Brazilian Marquinhos and surpassed the Costa Rican Keylor Navas. PSG squeezed that was unable to score.

After the break the Parisian pressure dropped and Lille was more comfortable. At the time of the game, Pochettino established a triple change. Julian Draxler, Colin Dagba and Mitchel Bakker took to the pitch and Moise Kean, Thilo Kehrer and Abdou Diallo retired. After Rafinha took the place of Idrissa Gueye.

He was able to sentence Lille in the absence of a quarter of an hour in a counterattack that ended with a pass from the American Timothy Weah to the Turkish Burak yilmaz who shot and saved Keylor Navas.

After Neymar and Portuguese Tiago Djaló were expelled in the image that represented the frustration of PSG, which was left the leadership.

1 – Paris Saint Germain: Keylor Navas, Thilo Kehrer (Colin Dagba, m.64), Marquinhos, Presnel Kimpembe, Abdou Diallo (Mitchel Bakker, m.64); Leandro Paredes, Idrissa Gueye (Rafinha, m.72); Ángel Di María, Neymar, Kylian Mbappe; and Moise Kean (Julian Draxler, m.64).

0 – Lille: Mike Maignan; Tiago Djalo, Jose Fonte, Sven Botman, Reinildo Mandava; Renato Sanches (Burak Yilmaz, m.73), Benjamin Andre, Boubakakry Soumare, Jonathan Bamba; Jonathan David (Timothy Weah, m.35) and Nanitamo Ikoné (Domagoj Bradaric, m.92.

Goal: 0-1, Jonathan David (m. 20)

Referee: Benoit Bastien. He expelled Neymar and visitor Tiago Djalo, for a double warning (m.90) and showed a yellow card to Leandro Paredes, Idrissa Gueye, Neymar, Abdou Diallo and Kylian Mbappe, from Paris Saint Germain and to Jose Fonte and Benjamin Andre, from Lille.

Incidents: Meeting of the thirty-first day of Ligue 1 played in the Parc des Princes in Paris.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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