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)
| 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)
| 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)
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!
PSG and France are vulnerable solely for the fact that Luis Enrique and Didier Deschamps insist on starting Ousmane Dembélé
This was by far our best preformance
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
People thought Mbappe was slowing down
Hearing Boulogne answering back to Auteuil on “Tous ensemble on chantera” is magical. Bring the boys back in please.
Oh and great game btw.
Warren Zaire Emery.
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.
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.
Serie A: Rafa Leao
Champions League: Rofl Lmao
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.
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
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
Imagine you manage to get Xavi Simons back to PSG long term.
WZE + Simons midfield
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.
Milan needs to get a better coach I think . Every time I watch them , they play very disorganized and rely too much on leao.
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
Bbbbut Leao is worth 180mln!
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.
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.
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
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.