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By Rory Smith and Andrew Das
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Marquinhos to give to P.S.G. a 1-0 lead.
Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig play in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. A novelty is guaranteed: none of the teams have ever reached the last of the competition, the richest club championship in Europe.
TV: On Tuesday it is broadcast on CBS All Access and in Spanish by Univision.
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Ander Herrera leaves Mbappé with a sharp pass just outside the right post, and the angle is too closed for a punchline. But each and every P.S.G. Key. The player has had a chance now, and Leipzig is lucky that it is only 1-0.
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A loose kick won from the left after a couple of corners leads to the first purpose of the game. Neymar is the supplier, screwing a cross into the mouth of purpose where Marquinhos, his Brazilian compatriot, arrives first and passes to Gulasci on purpose. Unfortunate defence through RB Leipzig there; There’s no explanation for why letting a little guy split your defense to win a head.
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Mbappé throws his spouse with a knife pass, but Neymar, alone, throws him over the right post with the outside of his right foot. The nuances of his early failure were opposed to the Atalanta there. And not a smart memory if you’re a CEO. Fan.
P.S.G. Then he put the ball in the net, Kuipers, the Dutch referee, had stopped the game. No target.
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P.S.G. He tried to propel Neymar Upamecano early, while Leipzig worked a little more methodically: cutting passes, running from the outside inland, then a quick center or two. No danger at first. But both groups seek to exploit their strengths and avoid problems.
If this helps you visualize while you read today: P.S.G. It is wearing blue shirts and blue shorts, and RB Leipzig is wearing white shirts and red shorts.
It’s tempting to split the Champions League semi-finals in half: tonight’s new cash reunion and tomorrow’s clash among the majors. Many could place in this kind of allegory of a war for the soul of football. But if it is true that RB Leipzig and Paris Saint-Germain do not exist, in their current form, just to play football, what they deserve to make it a desirable game are the differences in how this has manifested itself.
P.S.G. it is the ultimate arribistic superpower: a front line built with superstard as a base material, founded on Neymar’s ingenuity, Kylian Mbappé’s devastating power, and the predatory instincts of stars like Mauro Icardi and others in reserve. It is a team designed to surprise and impress, to blind the parties in conflict with their skill and to some extent their glamour. The rest of the team is a little more to do and repair: it doesn’t really lack quality, but sometimes it can be difficult for us to have an idea of who plays on the left and who plays. from the front. Nor was there a convincing philosophy: Thomas Tuchel, his coach, deserves to create a team from the fabrics they gave him.
Julian Nagelsmann, Tuchel’s former protégé, is different. Leipzig built a club from scratch with a singular vision, young athletes betting on football with the utmost sense, and recruited a team and a coach to match. The source of their money would possibly be unpleasant for some; how it happened is hard to condemn. Leipzig has now become the style of how the maximum of Europe’s maximum cell football groups would like to behave, if they only had one drink of power.
So that’s the context of the game: if brilliant concepts (financed by new money) can defeat brilliant talents (funded with new funds). It is, in a sense, an assembly between two other conceptions of long-term football.
Julian Nagelsmann stood firm, sending the same and that was a quarter-final victory over Atletico Madrid.
Leipzig Team:
Gulacsi, Klostermann, Upamecano, Mukiele, Laimer, Sabitzer, Kampl, Angelino, Nkunku, Olmo, Poulsen
The biggest replacement for Thomas Tuchel of P.S.G. Front, where Kylian Mbappé, whose participation in this festival was once doubtful by an ankle injury suffered in France, begins. He was the most important thing in the difference in the quarter-final victory over Atalanta, a breath of new air (and danger) in the middle of the moment. Today, it will bring that from the beginning.
Also keep an eye out for Angel Di Maria. Initial PSG Training:
Rico, Kehrer, Silva, Kimpembe, Bernat, Paredes, Marquinhos, Herrera, Di Maria, Mbappé, Neymar.
Barcelona, who was defeated by Bayern Munich last week, 8-2, on one of the most humiliating days in the club’s recent history, is being cleaned up this week.
The simplest call came quickly: Quique Setién is already absent as a manager, and Ronald Koeman, the former Dutch player who helped the club win his first Champions League, is at stake. Koeman’s first task will be to catch Lionel Messi with both hands and grab him.
Today it’s sporting director Eric Abidal who’s unemployed. But Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu, a guy who Barcelona fans blame for the lousy condition of the existing team, told the club’s TV channel that he would not leave his post.
“I chose to resign in favor of the club,” he said.
Spoiler: This probably wouldn’t happen well.
Today’s winner at Benfica’s East-Dio da Luz will face the winner of Wednesday’s semi-final between Bayern Munich and Lyon at Sporting’s José Alvalade. The maximum will be positioned on Sunday at Benfica.
Unlike other years, the entire champions League knockout round, starting with the quarter-finals, is played in Lisbon, where organizers quarantine, control and control each and every team movement. Rory Smith and Tariq Panja wrote about how they gave us here and the rules that each and every one respects to end the tournament.
The ultimate of a laugh of this story is this: the shaped ball used today, and in each and every attack, is published in Istanbul 2020. This is the original site of the final. (Turkey will now get the game next spring, if the pandemic allows it).
Don’t you know a lot about equipment? We have what you want if you catch up in time to look at your friends wisely.
It is no exaggeration to say that Paris Saint-Germain was built for those two weeks. Its Qatari owners have literally spent lots and millions of dollars searching (to date uncovered) the Champions League trophy. But seven consecutive French titles and more than a dozen national cups have never been the goal. The Champions League was the goal. That’s why the club incorporated Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Neymar and Kylian Mbappé and everyone, and although it takes the club to the 16th Champions League circular, it has never taken it to the semi-finals until this year. This pandemic knockout tournament is P.S.G.’s most productive chance to win the title. If that doesn’t work, you have to ask yourself: will it ever happen?
The rise of Rb Leipzig is another story. Created in total fabric through the Red Bull energy drinks empire, the club was founded in 2009 and temporarily scaled the pyramid of German football. Not everyone is a fan of effort. All right, let’s be honest: your German rivals can’t stand RB Leipzig and everything it stands for, but the team has a lot to sell: its young and creative coach, Julian Nagelsmann; commitment to the game of offensive football; his conviction to foster talent; Smart and productive recruitment. It’s the Red Bull attachment that shows everyone, even some of his own fans, as Rory wrote today.
Paris St.-Germain did not fail. In front of Atalanta, the Italian upstart whose Champions League career had been a ray of hope in his hometown marked by coronavirus, P.S.G. they took place early, squandered a handful of opportunities to match and needed two goals in the last few minutes to claim victory. Marquinhos was given the first, in the 90th minute, and Neymar and Kylian Mbappé combined brilliantly to prepare Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting for the second.
RB Leipzig reserved their position in the semi-finals in an equally dramatic way, with the same score of 2-1. His triumph over Atletico Madrid came from an American substitute, Tyler Adams, who scored with a shot deflected from afar in the 88th minute.
Their immediate rise in the elite of European football is illustrated more productively through this: the groups have never played a competitive match before today.
Neither team has ever reached the top flight of the Champions League. One of them will be there when they go to sleep tonight.
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