Fabián Ruiz rose as the challenge grew. It is difficult to see soccer players with such a large body to move so many times through the field in all planes of the action, with such self -denial, supporting fatigue and pain in successive series of deaf stresses that can only be explained from a need for altruism. His goal, the goal that opened the scoring, was an award to that solidarity character that infects everyone. The Sevillian celebrated it with rage, kneeling in front of the mad crowd, as if he knew he had just taken a decisive blow. It was the prolegomenon of the outcome of a Champions semifinal that caused a trains clash. Arsenal fell, who committed away the courage that lacked him in his. Luis Enrique’s team was imposed, which more than a revelation threatens to transform into a hegemonic power in Europe.
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Gianluiguigi Donnarumma, Marquinhos, Achraf Hakimi, Willian Pacho, Nuno Mendes (Gonçalo Ramos, Min. 87), João Neves, Fabián Ruiz, Vitinha, Bradley Boat (Ousmane Dembélé, Min. 69), Désiré Doué (Lucas Hernández, Min. 73) Y Khvicha Kvatskhe
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David Raya, Jakub Kiwior, Jurriën Timber (Ben White, Min. 82), William Salba, Myles Lewis-Skely (Ceccardo California, Min. 67), Martin ØDegaard, Declan Rice, Thomas Partey, Mikel Merino, Bukayo Saka y Gabriel Martinelli (Landro Trossard, Min.
Goals
1-0 min. 26: Fabián. 2-0 min. 71: Achraf Hakimi. 2-1 min. 75: Bukayo Saka
Referee Felix Zwayer
Yellow cards
Numo Mendes (min. 17), Declan Rice (min. 25), Myles Lewis-Skelly (min. 55), Bukayo Saka (min. 85), Ricardo Calafiori (min. 85), Khvicha Kvarathelia (min. 85)
Each season he manages his great storm. The Princes Park party gathered all the conditions that push epic confrontations. The PSG does not know or want to play anything other than vertigo. In the wave of enthusiasm that he has gestated among his fans it could not be allowed to lower the pace to manage the advantage. The arsenal, normally calculating, was forced to revolutionize the engines. The Kroenke, the American owners of the club, asked the Technical Secretariat to press Arteta to burn all the fuel available. Avoid middle and low blocks. No dosing microparters. They wanted piecework. The prize of success was announced lavish since Tuesday. The finding that the winner would play the final with the Inter installed in the two contestants the conviction that whoever was a winner of Paris would lift the European Cup in Munich. The Holy Grail of two of the richest sports institutions in the world who have never achieved the trophy.
PSG and Arsenal live in another financial and football dimension. The maximum expression of his opulence are Odegaard and Vitinha. Teachers by antonomasia in the art of getting out of pressure, key to domain in contemporary football, since for a decade the great teams play to have the ball and to avoid by all means that the adversary is done with him through persecutions of man to man, increasingly sticky. Put the arsenal tightened as it did since the start, the two teams were compressed in 40 meters to decide who sent, and in the center of the spiral they found Odegaard and Vitinha. During the first fifteen minutes, Odegaard came out with his and placed Arsenal on the balcony of the Donnarumma area.
Donnarumma had to get long. Omitting one of the halls of identity of the team, the Italian goalkeeper divided the ball into aerial duels. Rice, Party and Saliba won, more powerful than their counterparts, and between Martinelli and Saka they began to percate without truce against Hakimi and Mendes. This is how Rice was about to find the squad with a header to center of Saka. A long series of bands were happening, and party was revealed as an unexpected weapon hanging centers with his hands and Martinelli shot at the bocjarro taking advantage of a rebound. Donnarumma took him out as he could. The goalkeeper was just as a determinant to divert a satin of odegaard well directed to the angle.
The PSG could only be deployed when the Arsenal loosen the pressure, exhausted at 20 minutes of the beginning. . Stuck to the left, the Georgian displayed his battery of Fintas until he sowed the alarm in all the visiting lines. He crashed a ball on the stick while Timber, Odegaard, Saliba, Saka and Party swirled around them in shifts. There was an unleashed man who tried to corner. The consequence was that they left Doué and Barcola free in the central lanes. The Bisoñez attacked the two youth players. They lost too many simple balls. Two hand wasted with stripe. They did not break the lock until Kvarathskhelia did not suffer a lack of Rice and Vitinha rolled up. The defenses rejected the launch and the ball fell to Fabian, who quietly, with the serenity of the enlightened, armed his leg on the edge of the area and placed the projectile.
The arsenal left the rest taken away. Kvarathskhelia punished him again with another incursion that concentrated the pressure of the defenders before enabling Hakimi, who put the 2-0. Vitinha launched the penalty that could liquidate the game. As soon as a thread of hope had the arsenal when Trossard deepened and made it possible for Saka to fight with Saliba by the ball and push the only goal of his team in the tie. Arteta shrugged, after the final beep: “Donnarumma has saved them.”
