On Wednesday evening, Paris Saint-Germain carried off a fine 3-1 victory over Aston Villa at the Parc des Princes in the first leg of their Champions League 2024-2025 quarter-final. It was a match in which Vitinha (25-year-old midfielder) broke an OptaPlay Parisian record.
It’s a very impressive figure, and undoubtedly the record in Parisian history, except that the media didn’t analyze the statistics beforehand. But it seems very difficult to do better.
To get ahead of the likes of Thiago Motta and Marco Verratiii, you need the quality of Vitinha, who was again very clean on Wednesday. Then there was PSG’s dominance against an Aston Villa side that had regrouped in its own area for much of the match. A scenario that is impressively reflected in the heat (or activity) maps of both teams.
