The Atalanta reached the end of his way to a stadium he had never reached before, until the PSG delivered two defeated shots.
The entertaining Italian team led PSG 1-0 in Mario Pasalic’s 27th-minute goal in the resumption of the champions league reorganized, until Marquinhos and Eric Choupo-Moting scored in the 90th and 93rd minutes to give PSG a very good 2-1 win on Wednesday. . quarter-finals. The first of 4 exclusive quarter-finals in 4 days in Lisbon, Portugal.
The entertaining Italian national team sought to tame the French champions, who desperately sought European good fortune to accompany all their national trophies. Despite a large monetary expense in recent years, the PSG has been eliminated in the 16-quarter-final circular of the last seven Champions League competitions. The availability of French star Kylian Mbappé, injured after a tough match in the French Cup final less than 3 weeks ago, has complicated things for Thomas Tuchel’s team. However, he resumed education before the game and entered in the 60th minute. Marco Verratti (injury) and Angel Di Maria (sanction), however, were also not available.
Atalanta, for his part, plays with great emotion after his small town in Bergamo devastated by the coronavirus. Gian Piero Gasperini’s club is one of the highest explosives in Europe, having scored 98 goals in Serie A, has what it takes to destabilize their most complete rival. It is also at a numerical disadvantage, with Josip Ilicic not available for the match.
First, PSG treated the tension of the midfielder of Atalanta well, but it was the Italian team that had the first chance of the match. Papu Gomez played at the door, but fired his shot straight at Keylor Navas.
On the other hand, Neymar missed an even more gilded opportunity. After a mix in the middle of the field that released him, Neymar was right, with a direct pass to the center, but fired directly from the pole, a sensational failure under the circumstances.
It’s Atalanta’s turn to get closer afterwards. Hans Hateboer won a ball on the right post and headed down, looking like he was bouncing it off in the top right corner, but for the big Navas stop.
Neymar had another chance to spread after some other doubles along the midfield line, this time on the band line. The Brazilian ran down the left wing, but drove his luck back to the right, perhaps waiting for Mauro Icardi to rush to the post by the time for the end of a safe shot.
The PSG did to denounce those first failures. Pasalic gave Atalanta the lead in the 27th minute, finale with a magnificent left-handed shot inside the area via Navas after the ball got in his way.
Neymar almost responded immediately, cutting through the center of the dribble and shooting with his right foot that passed to the left of the post.
In the 35th minute, Neymar had a chance, this one of a long-distance kick. He reduced his chance through 25 yards on target, but it wasn’t too difficult for goalkeeper Marco Sportiello, and he controlled the grip blank.
PSG continued to place the top line of the Atalanta area, and in the 40th minute another opportunity was presented for the Ligue 1 champions to score. Pablo Sarabia was the one who hit the left side with acres of area, but his center by Mauro Icardi was crushed.
Another possibility fell on Neymar in Hateboer’s horrific back step moments later, with the PSG star released to the left to savagely hit his possibility too high and too far.
Mbappé arrived on time, PSG’s frustrations continued after halftime and Atalanta seemed comfortable enough to continue betting with his point of tension and pace. It seemed to have had an instant effect after replacing Sarabia, but Icardi could not succeed at its center from the left.
It appeared that PSG had suffered a backhand for injury about 10 minutes later, when Navas had fallen off with an obvious leg injury and Sergio Rico had climbed into the band, in a position to upgrade, but the Costa Rican veteran shot and stayed. In.
Two minutes later, PSG almost matches, Mbappé ran to the left and demanded a stop to Sportiello.
Mbappé and Neymar had also not stored occasions before the former fell and had some other opportunity to beg.
Then, two PSG substitutes seized their failed opportunities, with a Choupo-Moting header in the top corner and a speculative long-distance shot from Julian Draxler who sailed over the bar just minutes from the end.
As the game approached the time off, the PSG, however, discovered its tie. The choupo-Moting centre chose Neymar from the left, and did not get the most productive shot, the Brazilian ended up preparing his compatriot Marquinhos for a purpose-by-purpose final for a 1-1.
That marker bent in favor of the PSG moments later. Neymar and Mbappé played as a supplier, preparing Choupo-Moting for the soft green goal injury time.
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Here are the lineups of the two teams:
PSG will face RB Leipzig winner against Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals, with either playing on Thursday. The other of the fork will feature the Barcelona winners against Bayern Munich (Friday) and Manchester City against Lyon (Saturday).