Women’s Champions League – PSG crushes Real Madrid (4-0) and flies at the top of their group

A magical evening and a perfect start to the season. This Tuesday evening, PSG dominated Real Madrid (4-0) during the third day of the group stage of the Women’s Champions League. At the Parc des Princes, in front of 18,000 spectators, Marie-Antoinette Katoto scored twice (13th and 53rd) and Sara Däbritz scored a new goal in European competition. Rocio Galvez lived a nightmarish evening by scoring the last Parisian goal against his camp. In the standings, the protected Didier Ollé-Nicolle took the lead in Group B with 9 points, ahead of Real Madrid (6 points). By the way, PSG has still not conceded a single goal since the start of the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

Usually, a PSG – Real Madrid at the Parc des Princes is a gala meeting between two mastodons of world football in men. But among women, Paris Saint-Germain has a physical and historical ascendancy over the Madrilenians. Double finalist of the Champions League, the Parisian club has in its ranks, some of the best players on the planet. Real Madrid, meanwhile, languished in 11th place in their national championship. And this difference was felt from the first seconds of the meeting.

The double for Katoto

Tired by the Parisian offensives which arrived on the wings, the Madrilenians made many mistakes from the start of the match and they could not do anything when Marie-Antoinette Katoto was thrown behind the back of the opposing defense. The latter then hooked Meline Gerard to score the first goal of the game (1-0, 13th). For her part, Sara Däbritz had an eventful evening in the middle of the field but it was again she who managed to unlock the counter during the most important moments. Caught in a pincer movement in the middle of the field, she created a first gap during the goal of Marie-Antoinette Katoto (13th) and it was she who allowed her team to widen the gap before the end of the first period (2 -0, 41e).

Recognized for its precision and its quality of strike on the corners, it deposited the ball on the head of Marie-Antoinette Katoto on one of the many Parisian corners (3-0, 53rd). This third goal had the effect of a hammer blow for the Madrilenians who never knew how to be dangerous in the last thirty minutes of the meeting. David Aznar, however, had all the cards in hand to worry the Parisian defense but Caroline Moller, top scorer for the Madrid team, did not enter the field until the 78th minute. And his only strike, in the 80th minute, was the most successful action of his training.

Although little worried, the success of the Parisiennes is also defensive. Amanda Ilestedt won seven of her eight matches in this match and she was imperial in the air. Aligned in central defense, after the departure of Irene Paredes, the adaptation of the Swedish international was quite impressive and the complementarity between the two players seemed already found. Ilestedt could even have scored a goal from a corner from Sara Däbritz (10th), but his head crashed into the crossbar of Meline Gerard’s goal. A question arises after this meeting: but who will be the first team to score a goal against PSG?