Paris Saint-Germain sneaked to a 1-0 house victory over Champions League debutants Girona on Wednesday after Paulo Gazzaniga’s expensive late blunder.
Nuno Mendes’ innocent low supply throughout purpose slipped via visiting goalkeeper Gazzaniga’s grasp within the Ninetieth minute at hand the hosts a gap victory at Parc des Princes.
Girona’s defence successfully neutralised PSG’s assault within the first half, inflicting mounting frustration for the hosts earlier than Michel’s aspect started to waste time, drawing boos from the Parc des Princes crowd.
Randal Kolo Muani and Achraf Hakimi had late possibilities, however each missed from shut vary earlier than Gazzinga inexplicably allowed Mendes’ tame cross to squirm via his fingers.
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Knowledge Debrief: PSG’s fortress continues unbroken
Although successful in fortuitous circumstances, PSG have now solely misplaced certainly one of their 37 house video games within the group stage of the Champions League (W29 D7) for the reason that begin of the 2012-13 marketing campaign.
Parc des Princes stays the Ligue 1 champions’ fortress, with solely one of many final 29 groups (D8 L20) travelling away to PSG for the primary time within the competitors successful (Manchester United, 3-1 in March 2019).
Luis Enrique has Gazzaniga to thank, nevertheless, with Girona’s personal purpose the primary within the Ninetieth minute of a Champions League recreation since November 2022, since Porto’s Ivan Marcano towards Atletico Madrid.
It was the primary ever Ninetieth-minute personal purpose within the competitors that proved to be the winner however, concerningly, PSG have now tried 71 shot makes an attempt since certainly one of their very own gamers scored in Europe.
