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Paris Saint-Germain 3 - 0 AC Milan

PSG scorers: Kylian Mbappé (32'). Randal Kolo Muani (53'), Lee Kang-In (89')


Venue: Parc des Princes, Paris, France

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)


Paris Saint-Germain:

Starting XI Notes Subs Notes
Gianluigi Donnarumma Arnau Tenas
Milan Škriniar Alexandre Letellier
Marquinhos Danilo Pereira
Achraf Hakimi 16' 90+3' Nordi Mukiele 90+3'
Lucas Hernández Fabián Ruiz 71'
Manuel Ugarte 71' Carlos Soler
Warren Zaïre-Emery Lee Kang-In 71' 89'
Vitinha Gonçalo Ramos 82'
Ousmane Dembélé 44' 71' Bradley Barcola
Kylian Mbappé 32'
Randal Kolo Muani 53' 82'

Manager: Luis Enrique (Spain)


AC Milan:

Starting XI Notes Subs Notes
Mike Maignan Lapo Nava
Malick Thiaw 4' 46' Antonio Mirante
Fikayo Tomori 61' 90' Davide Calabria 46'
Pierre Kalulu 62' Simon Kjaer 90'
Theo Hernández Alessandro Florenzi
Rade Krunić 7' 77' Davide Bartesaghi
Yunus Musah 77' Yacine Adli 77'
Tijjani Reijnders Tommaso Pobega 77'
Christian Pulisic Chaka Traorè
Rafael Leão Luka Jović
Olivier Giroud

Manager: Stefano Pioli (Italy)


MATCH EVENTS

1': We're off!

4': Malick Thiaw into the book for a foul on Kolo Muani. That's a bad card to pick up this early.

7': Rade Krunić on a card now too. Not the start Milan wanted.

16': Achraf Hakimi clatters into Musah from behind

22': Mbappé with the first shot on target! Maignan get down quickly is behind it all the way.

26': Leão with the shot! Or it might have been a pass to Giroud but Giroud lets it pass by him and it goes wide of the far bottom corner.

30': Mbappé fires a missile from distance that drifts wide of the far post.

32': GOAL PSG!! Kylian Mbappé does a quick cut by Kalulu and fires right into the near side!

44': Ousmane Dembélé clips Giroud to stop a counter

HT Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 AC Milan One great individual goal from Mbappé is the difference at the half.


46': Milan substitution: Davide Calabria on for Malick Thiaw

46': We're back!

48': Goal PSG! They pound forward on the counter, and it's finished off by Ousmane Dembélé who breaks free and sends it under the keeper's arm! Except.... no, the ref is going to look at the screen and cancel it, for a pretty rough foul by Ugarte on Musah in the buildup. Definitely a foul, but it was pretty far back from the goal... that might be controversial.

50': A chance for Milan! Pulisic is one-on-one with the keeper! But he passes to Giroud! Giroud can't quite get back to it and hits it into the side netting! Now Giroud is limping a little.

53': GOAL PSG!! This one will stand! And it's a terrible miscue by the Milan defense! PSG take the corner short, then Dembélé fires one on target. Maignan saves it but pushes it right into Randal Kolo Muani who quickly fires into the net! Entire Milan team napping!

58': Mbappé tears holes through the defense again! But this time Maignan makes the save.

61': Fikayo Tomori into the book for catching Kolo Muani in the face with his hand

62': Pierre Kalulu fouls Mbappé from behind. These are some soft-ass cards.

63': Pulisic fires from outside the box through traffic, on target but an easy save for Donnarumma

64': Dembélé sprays a wild shot wayward.

71': PSG double sub: Fabián Ruiz and Kang-in Lee on for Ousmane Dembélé and Manuel Ugarte

77': Milan double sub: Tommaso Pobega and Yacine Adli on for Rade Krunić and Yunus Musah

78': SAVE! Pulisic finds Leão on the left and Leão fires, just kept out of the bottom near corner by Donnarumma!

79': Adli goes down in the box, ref immediately tells him to get up.

81': Giroud with a header on target, but doesn't have the power, easy save.

82': SAVE! Maignan just gets a hand on Mbappé's shot to push it into the far post!

82': PSG substitution: Gonçalo Ramos on for Randal Kolo Muani

89': GOAL PSG!! Lee Kang-In gets the dummy and takes it first time into the back of the net! That's the dagger!

90': Milan substitution: Simon Kjaer on for Fikayo Tomori

90+3': PSG substitution: Nordi Mukiele on for Achraf Hakimi

FT Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 AC Milan They're rocking in France as PSG go top of the group!

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[–] aclurk@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Milan has played Newcastle, Dortmund, PSG, Inter, and Juve this season. Teams that would generally be considered Champions League strength, and is 0-2-3 with a -8 goal difference at this moment.

That’s a shambolic return from Pioli

[–] GENKhan22@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Newcastle and Dortmund were wins if our attackers could finish. Don’t act like we didn’t play well those games. Inter and juve was an absolute disaster class from thiaw and he shouldn’t start in big games hopefully once kalulu is fully fit. Even juves win was a dumbass locatelli long shot deflection.

[–] Shinkopeshon@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Stop the pain

[–] freebase1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This was by far our best preformance

[–] ParisLake2@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That’s was a great win, one of our best performances in the season. Players were great, no one was terrible today. We did a great job putting pressure on Milan in the final 3rd the whole match, and this resulted in many opportunities, some that we were able to convert. I thought we did well on the counter attack today as well.

Zaire-Emery needs to take a bow for that performance. Man of the Match for me.

Other great players included Mbappé, Lee Kang In, Hakimi, and Vitinha.

[–] EurospinLidl@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Serie A: Rafa Leao

Champions League: Rofl Lmao

[–] arkaitus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully that convinces Enrique to never line up a 4-4-2 again against strong teams

[–] ImNotANarcissist@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

He shouldn't line up in anything but a 4-3-3 regardless of opposition. He also needs to start resting WZE. Do NOT burn this kid out

[–] Hansa_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Zaire Emery man of the match, no doubt. The kid has a bright future if he can keep this level and improve.

[–] RedShenron@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have been a fan of this team for many, many years. I hardly remember worse performances than several i have seen in 2023.

Sack him before the season is over.

[–] Alive-Ad-4164@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

People thought Mbappe was slowing down

[–] Minute-Cash8119@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good game. I’m obviously happy for the win but we still aren’t at our very best. If Lee had started instead of Vitinha today, we would’ve been much more dominant.

WZE is our titi d’or and we should keep him at all cost. Even when he’s fouled he still continues instead of stopping the play. Kylian is still not as his best but clinical as always.

I’d say RKM has been awful in some instances, same as Dembouz but the game still went our way due to them

[–] Tanathonos@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Dembele was by far the worst of the front 4. Vitinha wasn't nearly as bad as him, but he doesn't seem to know how to play Mbappe through on goal quickly.

[–] GreatSpaniard@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

PSG and France are vulnerable solely for the fact that Luis Enrique and Didier Deschamps insist on starting Ousmane Dembélé

[–] Beggnivia@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Warren Zaire Emery.

[–] Jonasper77@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

How did PSG lose 4-1 against Newcastle?

[–] supterfuge@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

How have non-PSG fans found the PSG midfield this game ? I'm extremely hyped about WZE especially but like them all, but I can't say if it's justified or if it's just because they play for my club

[–] Kiwizqt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Hearing Boulogne answering back to Auteuil on "Tous ensemble on chantera" is magical. Bring the boys back in please.

Oh and great game btw.

[–] SandThatsKindaMoist@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Hope PSG stick with the trend of buying French players and utilizing their academy, makes them a little bit more likeable.

[–] Delirium12@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Krunic should never start. I would rather just roll with Adli to see what he is about. Pioli has no offensive tactics, it just relies on individual class on our players. It works in Serie A but not in Champions League. We can win Serie A but not much more.

[–] ScarSG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Adli defense on the last goal is shocking tbf. He just got subbed in and he just gave up following WZE. I've seen he's been good lately tho so I wish it works for you

[–] el_walou@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great game.

Mbappe is a lethal. His goal is absolute world class level.

Warren Zaire Emery is generational. Man of the match. Fantastic player already, world class sooner than later

Marquinhos had a solid game yay !!

Dembele, i don’t care what people say, i like dembele.

Vitinha had a great game.

Happy to see Fabian Ruiz finally playing like he should. He has class.

I like Kolo Muani’s fighting spirit, dude is always running. He still has to improve a lot to reach his frankfurt level but he is useful.

Ramos was very smooth when he got in.

But fuck me Kang In Lee is a fantastic player.

Korean Messi. You can’t take the ball from him. Smooth as fuck every pass, every shot is perfect

Overall love this squad, likeable players, young guys happy to be there, positivity, attacking football.

It’s not a great ucl team but fuck me it’s enjoyable

[–] PAT_The_Whale@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine you manage to get Xavi Simons back to PSG long term.

WZE + Simons midfield

[–] Rickcampbell98@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Dembele was losing the ball for 90 minutes lmao, he's got quality but I don't think you would be so kind if you didn't win this game.

[–] OkChemical4668@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Milan needs to get a better coach I think . Every time I watch them , they play very disorganized and rely too much on leao.

[–] ManLikeNosaka@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's like watching the same game every time. We do nothing in possession, commit too many bodies forward, don't track back, concede. Some bald moron thought it would be a good idea to give as much space and as many one on ones as possible to Mbappe and Dembele of all people. I think Tomori was the only one who deserves some praise, been out best player for some time. Zaire-Emery was a joy to watch this game but allowing a 17 year old to embarrass the whole midfield is unacceptable

[–] Sgruntlar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bbbbut Leao is worth 180mln!

[–] Oh_my_Butt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuinely have no idea how people rate him so highly. He does so little to impact the game. He offers nothing defensively, he doesn't press, he just waits until someone gets him the ball. When he gets the ball, he often kills the forward momentum by trying to do too much.

He's obviously insanely talented, but I have no idea how Milan fans avoid criticizing him. He vanishes in big games and most of his crazy goals come against weak opposition.

[–] Sgruntlar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

By "people" you mean BBilnistas who claim he's worth 180 million. Market value would be comfortably below the 100 mln bar and as he gets older and he continues being useless in European competitions (including National Team) his value is only going to decrease. Probably he'll be sitting at ~60m.

He's only good for farming points against mid-low tier clubs in Serie A.