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Paris (EFE) – Paris Saint-Germain won Wednesday a 2-1 win against Liverpool, thanks to a good first period that leaves them in good condition to qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League and places the team in the lead. English on the edge of the precipice.
The French were far ahead of the European finalists in the first half, a penalty at the brink of the break allowed the "red" to reduce distances and become addicted to the game. But he did not been able to throw between the three sticks.
Sign that Jürgen Klopp lost the freshness that led them last spring in the final of the contest, the magic of his offensive trident in which only the Senegalese Sadio Mané created a real danger, while the Brazilian Firmino and the Egyptian Mohamed Salah they hardly let themselves see each other.
Liverpool must win in the last match against Naples to continue on its European run, at the hands of Anfield become their only resource for a year in which they lost all the duels away from their stadium.
On the contrary of what the PSG, which came to the duel of today with the water of the neck and leaves with a serious choice of clbadification. A triumph in Belgrade is automatic, but even a draw can serve them.
Spectators were expecting a great match against a heavyweight rival of Thomas Tuchel's team to begin to see the performance of Qatari's multi-million dollar PSG project.
They were satisfied with an excellent first half, many carats of play and two goals of reward, but they did not miss the suffering of the second, in the expectation of any detail likely to disturb the good image that they had given.
At 13 minutes, a good shot of Verratti who served Mbappé. His center in the area was dismissed by the English back, but Bernat 's timely arrival allowed the Spanish defender to open the scoring.
The former Valencia and Bayern player had already scored in the match against Napoli, his only two goals with PSG.
In the 37th, he recovers Neymar's balloon, opens Mbappé's turn on the left, his center is finished by Rabbi Cavani, stops Alisson but the rebound is at the feet of Neymar who only has to push the ball to the net.
It was Brazil's fourth goal in the Champions League with PSG, the fourteenth of the season.
Liverpool, who had not shot between the posts throughout the match, found himself in the last breath of the first period with a penalty of Di Maria in Sané that the referee did not see but was alerted by the badistant. Milner was responsible for transforming it to bring his team to life.
The second half started with another sign. After a goal canceled by offside against Marquinhos, the "red" lines came forward and made PSG shake.
The Parc des Princes, who rubbed his hands with the great first half of his team, held his breath, while the fangs of Liverpool began to smell the blood.
The shock of Tuchel was such that the German coach introduced at once two defensive changes. Retired Di Maria, physically hit, and Cavani, to give the entrance to Dani Alves, who has been reunited with the Champions League after his long injury, and the promise Choupo-Moting.
If the PSG was entrusted to the counterattack, Klopp made every effort to have Keita find the tie that would bring them back in the match.
The French ended the bleeding and even sentenced to the 70th in a corner that Marquinhos finished at close range with a powerful head that stopped his compatriot Alisson.
Powerlessness of the "network" until the end. The Klopp team in question, ineffective in front of Anfield, forced the machado and left the final word to the calculator.
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