Kylian Mbappé and Neymar celebrate a goal of PSG in the French Cup

THE FRENCH IS DOUBT FOR THE CHAMPIONS

Neymar scores, Mbappé gets injured and PSG wins the French Cup

Published:25/07/2020 - 07:55h

Updated:25/07/2020 - 07:55h

PSG tested itself this Friday with real fire, and did not fail in its duel against Saint-Étienne. A goal by Neymar was enough for the 'bleus' to conquer the French Cup on a night in which Kylian Mbappé was injured

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In the night of the Friday, to the PSG arose him several doubts of face to the Champions League, but after Tie it 1, already has the Glass of France. The country lived an official party after a stop that seemed interminable, and did it with 5.000 viewers in the terracings of the Stade of France. In Saint-Denis imposed the most powerful applicant in a day of joys and penalties in which a hard Saint-Étienne did not want to leave carry.

After several friendly resolved with goleada, the 'bleus' found in front of a blatant and challenging rival. The offensive approach of Thomas Tuchel bumped frontalmente with the one of Claude Puel, that seemed very defensive but looked for him the cosquillas to the national champion. In spite of the five defenders of his alignment, the tip Denis Bouanga had of good occasions and even put the fear in the body with a shot to the stick.

But sometimes the favouritism does cost with effectiveness, and this factor finish marking the differences when it annotated Neymar. After combining with Ángel Gave María, Kylian Mbappé cut the retaguardia of the 'verts' as a knife and planted in front of Jessy Moulin, that cleared as it could his shot. The refuse arrived to the feet of the Brazilian in the heart of the area, and this fusiló with the left-handed to give advantage to his.

The so much shot the revolutions of the duel, and the calentura desbordó with an entradón of Loïc Perrin that lesionó to Mbappé. They had tested the ones of the Ródano to Keylor Navas and the Parisians did not want to remain backwards, but another played key was the one of the captain with the one of Bondy. In the succession of brush, crashes and lacking, an entrance to the ankle of the '7' caused that this left between tears and his precisely expelled opponent.

With the goalkeeper of the greens avoiding a greater bloodletting, the final dissolved in the fault of rhythm of both applicants. The PSG managed his income and looked for the sentence by means of Pablo Sarabía very active, but showed that the legs still need rhythm after long of inactivity. The Saint-Étienne, by his part, hardly attained to upset, but saved of the sonrojo after playing more than an hour with a man less.

The injury of Mbappé concerns to the PSG

The PSG celebrated with illusion a title that many considered 'sung', but did it with a bitter aftertaste by the hit of Mbappé. In the acts of celebration, the youngster explained him to the president Emmanuel Macron that thought that had not broken the articulation, but exists unrest and some fear in the club by all what is for coming. In addition to the final of the Glass of the League that will cross him with the Olympique of Lyon, a bone that aims to be harder of roer, the most important aim are the quarter-finals of Champions against the Atalanta, the next 12 August.

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