This Sunday evening, Paris Saint-Germain won 3-1 (video highlights PSG/OM) against Olympique de Marseille on Matchday 26 of Ligue 1 2024-2025 at the Parc des Princes. Here are the highlights and lowlights of the victory.
Tops –
Victory over rivals
Even when playing less well, PSG manage to win. There’s room for improvement, there’s everything in this team that knows how to dominate, back off, defend and counter-attack. Another 3 goals, in what was a quiet evening for Paris in terms of quality of play. A 19-point lead in the second most important match of the season after the first leg against Marseille. Paris have been racing towards the title for weeks now, and this match was the perfect opportunity to push them even further ahead.
Dembégoal, uncompromising
You can’t leave him anything, otherwise he’ll help himself. He’s a different player this year, he’s realized something. He’s scoring again, 30 goals this season with Paris, in March. He opens the score, he’s the leader who doesn’t hide anymore. Impeccable.
Beraldo
Beraldo, who was often average or even in trouble, was the boss of the defense. A very good game from him, which we obviously wanted to highlight. He was very good with his head, even though we’d been told that he wasn’t very comfortable in the air. We saw him haranguing the crowd, celebrating his interventions, he played his part well in this Classic. Very good in his duels too.
Flops –
Nuno Mendes, the return of Dilletantism
He stopped Salah for over 200 minutes, let his guard down and it was Rabiot who took advantage of his moments of inattention. It’s a pity, because Marseille are complaining about “avoidable” goals, so what can we say about the one conceded by PSG? He still needs to become more consistent, even if his mistake doesn’t really cost his team anything.
A team that stayed at Anfield
They started the match at 9:03pm, and the lag was felt throughout. With passes that weren’t strong enough, interventions that were a little late, and latency in passing the ball, PSG were playing at a much lower level. That was enough, but it was clear that this week’s physical and mental exhaustion cost PSG on Sunday evening.
