Goal
PSG: Ruiz (27′), Hakimi (72′)
Arsenal: Saka (76′)
Contrary to the statements before the match, coach Luis Enrique was unable to fill in the name of striker Oussmane Dembele on the main squad but only to the French star on the bench at the welcome Arsenal, the team to play with the strongest squad and determination to win to raise the hope of upstream.
Despite having to play away, Arsenal in a position had no way back, so he soon pushed the squad to search for a goal. However, this became a double -edged sword for the London Gunners, when PSG chose to play counterattack defenses. When Arsenal has not had a really clear opportunity, PSG made David Raya’s goal in the 17th minute with the perfect curve of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to the right column.
By the 23rd minute, center -back William Saliba passed the ball straight into the foot of Kvaratskhelia facilitating PSG to organize a quick counterattack from the middle of the field with a favorable ball for Desire Doue but the young 19 -year -old talent did not defeat Raya with a definitive situation in the penalty area. However, the Spanish goalkeeper could not shine and had to go to the net to pick up the ball just 4 minutes later.
Stemming from the free kick on the right boundary, the ball was hung into the Arsenal penalty area, midfielder Thomas Partey headed the rescue but Gabriel Martinelli did not follow the Fabrian Ruiz in the situation where the ball turned out for the Spanish midfielder to freely control with his chest and launch a powerful volley from the edge of Raya. The score was almost 2-0 just a few minutes later, when PSG held a counterattack and the ball to Bradley Barcola’s foot but in an empty position, his shot was shocked by Raya.
Around the remaining 15 minutes of the first half, Arsenal held the entire game on the field but the Gunners did not create a really dangerous ball on the goal of Donnarumma and two teams left the holiday in the middle of the match with the victory for PSG.
The script in the second half also did not change much, when Arsenal continued to push the squad to search for a goal. The accuracy was slightly improved by the army of Mikel Arteta and the ball approached the PSG goal. However, the home team was still there to block Gigi Donnarumma in the goal, when he flew the excellent rescue, Saka’s technical heart in the 64th minute.
While still struggling to search for goals, the Arsenal defense once again made a mistake. 66 minutes, after referring to VAR technology, the referee gave PSG a 11m penalty when determining Myles Lewis-Skelly to touch the ball in the penalty area in an effort to stop the shot of Archaf Hakimi. However, Vitinha could not win the goalkeeper Raya, who had played extremely excellent from the beginning of the match.
However, Raya alone is not enough to save the entire competition system of Arsenal. After a lot of bad shielding situations in front of the goal, Partey had to pay the price when he lost the unexpected squad of PSG to rob him before the ball reached Hakimi’s foot and the player made the shot very quickly beat Raya to raise the score to 2-0 for the home team in the 72 minute.
Arsenal’s tireless efforts were finally paid off. In the 76th minute, the player replaced the Leandro Troussard to have a horizontal line for Bukayo Saka to finish near the gap. However, Saka was the one who made the Gunners’ ambition of the Gunners melting into some smoke when in an empty posture to finish on the stands at the 6m distance although the PSG goal was empty in the 80th minute.
Losing 1-3 after two matches, Arsenal ended the Champions League dream. Meanwhile, PSG has been for the first time since 2020 to play the right to play the final and their opponent will be Inter Milan, the team has surpassed Barca.
Playing squad
PSG: Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pocho, Mendes (Ramos 88 ‘); Vitinha, Neves, Ruiz; DUEU (Lucas Hernandez 74 ‘), Kvaratskhelia, Barcola (Dembele 70’)
Arsenal: Raya; Lewis-Skelly (Calafiori 68 ‘), Kiwior, Saliba, Timber (Whites 83’); Partey, Rice, Odegaard; Martinelli (Troussard 69 ‘), Saka, Merino
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