Goals
Paris Saint-Germain: Fabián Ruiz (27’), Achraf Hakimi (72’)
Arsenal: Bukayo Saka (76’)
Competition: UEFA Champions League
Kickoff: 19:00+UTC
Venue: Parc des Princes - Paris France
Attendance: 47.511
Head referee: Felix Zwayer
Paris Saint-Germain form [old → recent]: ✅️➖️❌️✅️❌️
Arsenal form [old → recent]: ✅️✅️➖️❌️❌️
Head to head [recent → old]: (PSG-ARS): 1-0, 0-2, 1-5, 2-2, 1-1
Lineups
Paris Saint-Germain 4-3-3:
Gianluigi Donnarumma(1) - Willian Pacho(51) - Marquinhos(5) - Nuno Mendes(25)🟨Gonçalo Ramos(9) - Achraf Hakimi(2)⚽️ - Vitinha(17) - Fabián Ruiz(8)⚽️ - João Neves(87) - Bradley Barcola(29)Ousmane Dembélé(10) - Khvicha Kvaratskhelia(7)🟨 - Désiré Doué(14)Lucas Hernández(21)
Bench: Lucas Beraldo - Warren Zaïre-Emery - Axel Tape - Arnau Tenas - Lee Kang-in - Matvei Safonov - Ibrahim Mbaye - Senny Mayulu - Ousmane Dembélé - Lucas Hernández - Gonçalo Ramos
Arsenal 4-3-3:
David Raya(22) - Jakub Kiwior(15) - William Saliba(2) - Myles Lewis-Skelly(49)🟨Riccardo Calafiori(33)🟨 - Jurriën Timber(12)Ben White(4) - Thomas Partey(5) - Declan Rice(41)🟨 - Martin Ødegaard(8) - Mikel Merino(23) - Gabriel Martinelli(11)Leandro Trossard(19) - Bukayo Saka(7)⚽️🟨
Bench: Jorginho - Raheem Sterling - Neto - Nathan Butler-Oyedeji - Jack Francis - Ethan Nwaneri - Oleksandr Zinchenko - Kieran Tierney - Tommy Setford - Ben White - Riccardo Calafiori - Leandro Trossard
Match Stats
Possession: 46%🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴54%
Shots On Goal: 6 - 4
Shots Attempted: 11 - 19
Fouls: 11 - 11
Yellow Cards: 2 - 4
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Corners: 2 - 6
Saves: 3 - 4
Match Events
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
First Half begins.
2' - Foul by Désiré Doué (Paris Saint Germain).
2' - Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
3' - Attempt missed. Declan Rice (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jurriën Timber with a cross.
4' - Attempt saved. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Partey.
6' - Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
6' - Foul by Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain).
7' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Achraf Hakimi.
8' - Attempt saved. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
8' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Gianluigi Donnarumma.
8' - Delay in match because of an injury Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain).
9' - Delay over. They are ready to continue.
10' - Attempt blocked. Jakub Kiwior (Arsenal) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Bukayo Saka with a cross.
10' - Attempt blocked. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
17' - Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint Germain) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Désiré Doué.
18' - Foul by Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain).
18' - Jurriën Timber (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
18' - 🟨 Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
19' - Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
21' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Achraf Hakimi.
23' - Attempt saved. Désiré Doué (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bradley Barcola.
24' - Foul by Bukayo Saka (Arsenal).
24' - Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
26' - Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Désiré Doué is caught offside.
26' - Foul by Declan Rice (Arsenal).
26' - Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick on the left wing.
26' - 🟨 Declan Rice (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
27' - Goal! Paris Saint Germain 1, Arsenal 0. Fabián Ruiz (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.
29' - Foul by Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint Germain).
29' - Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
30' - Attempt saved. Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
30' - Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by David Raya.
30' - Foul by João Neves (Paris Saint Germain).
30' - Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
32' - Attempt missed. Mikel Merino (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Declan Rice with a headed pass.
35' - Fabián Ruiz (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
35' - Foul by Mikel Merino (Arsenal).
37' - Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mikel Merino with a headed pass.
37' - Attempt blocked. Jurriën Timber (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
39' - Offside, Arsenal. Martin Ødegaard is caught offside.
44' - Attempt missed. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by David Raya.
44' - Attempt blocked. Désiré Doué (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bradley Barcola.
44' - Delay in match because of an injury Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal).
45' - Delay over. They are ready to continue.
45' - Fourth official has announced 2 minutes of added time.
45'+2' - Foul by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint Germain).
45'+2' - William Saliba (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
45'+3' - First Half ends, Paris Saint Germain 1, Arsenal 0.
45' - Second Half begins Paris Saint Germain 1, Arsenal 0.
47' - Foul by Vitinha (Paris Saint Germain).
47' - Mikel Merino (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
51' - Désiré Doué (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick on the left wing.
51' - Foul by Jurriën Timber (Arsenal).
54' - Attempt missed. Désiré Doué (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nuno Mendes.
55' - Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
55' - Foul by Désiré Doué (Paris Saint Germain).
56' - Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
56' - Foul by Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal).
56' - 🟨 Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
57' - Attempt blocked. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Martin Ødegaard.
57' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Nuno Mendes.
58' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Gianluigi Donnarumma.
58' - Attempt missed. Jurriën Timber (Arsenal) header from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Bukayo Saka with a cross following a corner.
59' - Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
59' - Foul by Willian Pacho (Paris Saint Germain).
63' - Foul by Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint Germain).
63' - William Saliba (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
64' - Attempt saved. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jurriën Timber.
64' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Gianluigi Donnarumma.
64' - Attempt blocked. Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Désiré Doué.
64' - Penalty conceded by Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
66' - VAR Decision: Penalty Paris Saint Germain.
68' - 🔄 Substitution, Arsenal. Riccardo Calafiori replaces Myles Lewis-Skelly.
68' - 🔄 Substitution, Arsenal. Leandro Trossard replaces Gabriel Martinelli.
69' - 🥅❌️🧤 Penalty saved. Vitinha (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
69' - Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by David Raya.
70' - 🔄 Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Ousmane Dembélé replaces Bradley Barcola.
72' - ⚽️ Goal! Paris Saint Germain 2, Arsenal 0. Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ousmane Dembélé.
74' - 🔄 Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Lucas Hernández replaces Désiré Doué.
74' - Foul by Mikel Merino (Arsenal).
74' - João Neves (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
75' - Foul by Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain).
75' - Jurriën Timber (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
76' - Attempt blocked. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
76' - ⚽️ Goal! Paris Saint Germain 2, Arsenal 1. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal following a fast break.
78' - Foul by Thomas Partey (Arsenal).
78' - Vitinha (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
80' - Attempt missed. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Riccardo Calafiori with a cross.
81' - Attempt saved. Ousmane Dembélé (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Fabián Ruiz.
81' - Foul by Mikel Merino (Arsenal).
81' - João Neves (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
82' - Attempt missed. Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Vitinha following a set piece situation.
83' - 🔄 Substitution, Arsenal. Ben White replaces Jurriën Timber because of an injury.
84' - Foul by Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal).
84' - Vitinha (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
86' - 🟨 Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.
86' - 🟨 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card.
86' - (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
86' - Bukayo Saka (Arsenal).
86' - 🟨 Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.
88' - 🔄 Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Gonçalo Ramos replaces Nuno Mendes.
89' - Attempt missed. Ben White (Arsenal) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Partey with a cross.
90' - Fourth official has announced 5 minutes of added time.
90'+2' - Attempt missed. Mikel Merino (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben White with a cross.
90'+3' - Attempt blocked. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jakub Kiwior.
90'+6' - Second Half ends, Paris Saint Germain 2, Arsenal 1.
Match ends, Paris Saint Germain 2, Arsenal 1.
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While I’m watching this game, I just keep thinking about all the players who Arsenal aren’t able to call on: Big Gabi, Concerned Gabi, Kai Havertz, Tomiyasu, Calafiori. It’s not just who’s available today. It’s who might have been available during the week so that other players could have a rest.
Everything in this game has been such fine margins. Maybe a slightly better or slightly more rested player would have been enough to make the difference.
OTOH, even without reinforcements, next season should go so much better as long as there isn’t another injury crisis. And “so much better” than finishing second (hopefully) and making the CL semifinals… That’s promising.
Can’t discount the fact that we really need more attacking options, which the board really failed to deliver on in the middle of an injury crisis. I’m not sure if this is because our director of football decided to up and leave in the middle of the season, and we are just waiting for the new guy to come in to implement their plans. Rotation has always been an issue, even if players were healthy…modern day managers including Mikel rely on really the same few players because of such a rigid system they play.
In theory, the number of available attackers shouldn’t have been a problem. There were 2 good options for LW (Martinelli and Trossard), 2 at CF (Havertz and Gabriel Jesus), 2 at RW (Saka and Sterling) and some youth trying to break into the team (Nwaneri). Maybe there should have been one additional body in the attacking third just in case. But one alternate for every position is normally a decent amount. CL squads are limited to 25 players, and 1 backup at every position brings you to 22 already.
The real issue is that we had a series of injury crises, and that Sterling turned out to be incredibly poor. I think the situation in August was reasonable. But, by January the injury crisis was in full swing and we’d discovered just how poor Sterling was. A signing in January might have made all the difference. Even if it had been a player who was clearly not first choice in any forward position, if it were a player who was good enough to close out a game, or good enough to play against a team facing relegation, it could have been a way to rest other players.
What sucks about this game is that PSG shows that there were options in January. Who would be in the final if Arsenal had signed Kvaratskhelia instead of PSG?
Yeah Krava was a great pick up by them. A gripe is Mikel really wants a really specific player. Not a specific type, a specific player…i mean you gotta work with that we can get sometimes.
I had such hopes for Sterling to turn himself around, but sigh…
Maybe the new Sporting Director will convince Arteta that he can widen his choices a bit. The absolute failure of Sterling should help. I’m sure it was partially Arteta’s choice, given that he’d worked with him at Man City, etc. If Arteta’s judgment of a player can be so far off that he didn’t realize Sterling was completely done, maybe he can put less confidence in his own judgment and trust the scouts and analysts to give him picks that he wouldn’t otherwise know about.
the worst part is how good we’ve looked, for no reward
Story of the season innit
And off goes the game. Transfers to look forward to now.
Silly season yay!
Fucking get outta here you absolute shite VAR tits
gonna have a heart attack
SAKA NO YOU NEED TO GET IT THERE
RICE YOU LEGEND. GOOD TACKLE.
Myles is not ready for this man.
I’m so confused. WTF are we doing? Why are we trying to cross to no one? Why can’t Saka beat anyone and why doesn’t he even have a shot on target? It’s nowhere near good enough
Saka is repeatedly beating people, but PSG is sitting very deep so as soon as Saka beats one person there’s another one in his way.
Officially he has 1 key pass and 2 successful dribbles. Please tell me again how he’s repeatedly beating people.
How many crosses does he have?
2 accurate crosses
Yeah, Saka just sucks, right?
He just didn’t have a good game.
You should have watched the game against PSG instead of whatever you were watching. In the game that just aired, he almost scored an incredible goal, then scored one, then almost got another one after that.
Who is he beating? Maybe you’re watching a different game to me, because I see him failing to progress and ultimately passing backwards, sideways or crossing to absolutely no one hoping for the best.
He’s beating whoever’s in front of him. Are you sure you’re not watching a different sport entirely? The problem isn’t that he can’t beat his marker, it’s that he can’t beat the next player, and he’s often forced into a cross that nobody’s attacking.
He had two successful take ons in 90 minutes. If you want to argue that we shouldn’t use that as a metric to judge his performance, then that’s fine. But if I say something and the data backs me up, telling me I’m wrong because you’re upset is crazy.
You’d probably enjoy things more if you watched the game instead of just the stats.
You’re a really weird guy. Lemmy isn’t Reddit. We’re not trying to be angry dickheads here. It’s a community. People are allowed to disagree with you.
I’m not angry, just confused as to why you weren’t watching the game.
It just seems like Arsenal is outplaying PSG, but PSG is getting all the luck.
It sure is different having Merino as #9, Rice as left 8 and Partey at #6 though. Imagine if Arsenal had enough depth that a single suspension didn’t disrupt the entire team.
no please…
one must wonder how many goals we’d have scored with Ollie Watkins up there.
2-0 is the most dangerous lead tbf right guys, applies to aggregate also
Getting that familiar sinking feeling like we’re just not going to score at all in this game. Banging on the door but just can’t break it down.
Myles gotta work on those crosses lol
Let’s have a good fight, COYG!!!
