Warren Zaire-Emery highlighted the 3-1 PSG victory over Montpellier as he became the youngest goals scorer for the club, at just 16 years-old. Follow for more soccer club news here!
Despite the victory, Kylian Mbappe hasn’t been able to score yet in his last four games for PSG in Ligue 1 and has only had a longer drought once between March-May 2018 (6). He sustained an injury early in the match and needed to be taken off the pitch at the 21st minute. To watch soccer online free streams and livescore visit 12BET.
It was seen during the match that Mbappe limped off holding his hamstring, a fortnight before the Champions League round of 16 clash first leg with Bayern Munich. After the game, Coach Christophe Galtier spoke to the media and said, “he took a knock to the back of the knee or the back of the thigh, so we’ll see. He also added that he is “not too worried” and it’s either “a bruise or a contusion [we don’t know yet].”
The first half of the match was kind of quiet, as both sides weren’t able to score. In the second half, PSG became more aggressive in attacking the defense of Montpellier and tried to create and find loopholes and openings. This resulted in Fabian Ruiz scoring for the first goal of the match. Vitinha’s through ball is missed by Esteve and Ekiteke were able to smother it at the near post, nod it back to the middle, then tossed it to Ruiz position, near the back post for the first score of the match.
Lionel Messi made it double, with an assist from Ruiz. Sanchez passed the ball immediately to Ekitike on the left side, and he cut inside to find Ruiz who made a quick slide through for Messi, and the Argentinian repaid the effort and scored near the bottom corner.
But 17 minutes later, Nordin provided huge hope as he found the net with the help from Mavididi. Bernat looks to have cut out Montpellier’s attack, but his loose touch gives it straight back to the host. Nordin sends it into Mavididi, but Marquinhos makes a fantastic defense and the ball bounces back to Nordin, who took the shot for the first time, curling it past the defender and sending the ball behind Donnarumma into the bottom corner. Paris Saint-germain’s lead was cut to just a single point.
Then four minutes after, during the extended time, the youngster of PSG, Warren Zaire-Emery scores to conclude the game for PSG. He has acres of space down the right and he leisurely makes the run into the box, then fires a low shot past Lecomte to seal the three points for the league-leader.
This year for Mbappe was quite a nightmare, he just played 21 minutes today and was unable to stretch his winning record against Montpellier, as he yielded an impressive 12 goals and eight assists. This is a total night to forget for the French international, who will likely miss the first leg of the Round of 16 of the Champions League against their European rival Bayern Munich.
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