The Paris Saint-Germain is among the four best teams in Europe for the second consecutive year, something never previously achieved by the brief but millionaire Parisian history in the maximum continental competition. Those of Luis Enrique, with a choral game, talented in attack and … Sacrified in defense, in addition to the capacity for suffering like Tuesday at Villa Park, they run firmly to crown the most desired top in the city of light.
The Asturian coach is the undisputed leader of a team without the mega stars of yesteryear, the Mbappé, Neymar, Messi or Ibrahimovic, but with the indisputable quality of great players such as Dembélé, Vitinha, Kvarathskhelia or Doué. However, the main protagonist of the French route in the European qualifiers to the semifinals responds to the name of Giuanluigi Donnarummaa risen goalkeeper.
Landed in the Princes Park in 2021 after dazzling both in Milan and in the Italian team with which he had just proclaimed himself European champion, the PSG took the services of the most promising goalkeeper of the world landscape, located among the best with only 22 years.
The immense Parisian superiority in French football causes the measure of measuring to be applied in the Champions League. Donnarumma was signed to occupy the goal of the Gallic team for years, but reached a position defended by a triple Champions champion like Keylor Navasso Italian and Tico alternated in the goal during the group stage in the 2021-22 season.
At the time of the truth, in the round of 16 before all, Real Madrid, the transalpine was chosen to trim the PSG goal. The French of two goals of advantage enjoyed after two Mbappé in the Park of the Princes and the Bernabéu, but the excessive relaxation of Donnarumma against Benzema was the spark that fires the white rowing.
Undisputed holder in Europe since then, the Italian was worked as a hesitant and insecure player based on leaving indicated in all eliminations of the Gauls. The ruling against Benzema was followed by the trial of Coman below his body to fall against Bayern also in the round of 16 and a hesitative exit of Hummels that sentenced the semifinal last season against Borussia Dortmund.
The ghost of the decisive moments appeared again for the head of Donnarumma when the PSG, in the round of the eighths in this campaign, was unable to capture his domain in the scoreboard and Eliott took advantage of the soft hand of the Italian to put the Liverpool in an advantage in the discount.
In Anfield, the goal was drawn with a star performance, holding his team to penalties and two stops in the batch to Darwin Núñez and Curtis Jones to erect himself as the hero of the classification of the French team. This Tuesday, Donnarumma exercised again Savior of the PSG In Birmingham. The four goals of those enjoyed in Villa Park were not enough to enjoy tranquility, since Emery’s three goals to overcome the game left the extension to a single target. Then, the Italian appeared.
Three Salvadoras stops against Rashford, Tielemans and Asensio avoided that the qualifier lengthened other thirty minutes and returned the PSG to the semifinals for the second consecutive year. After three seasons under the focus for its defective performance when it was most necessary, the Resurrection From Donnarumma, a habitual indicated to a hero in the decisive times, allows Parisians to dream of their first European environment.
