UEFA Champions League: Manchester United stuns PSG with the help of Rashford's late strike.

Image Credit:@twitter/@ManUtd

UEFA Champions League: PSG is the last season's runners-up in the UCL but they faced a shock defeat against English side Manchester United in their first game of the season. 


PSG lost a game 2-1 goal and all goals were scored by Manchester United's side.  


PSG held a ball in their feet more than Manchester United as they took 61% possession in a game compared to Manchester United's only 39 %. Both teams shot a ball with the same number 14 times. PSG was able to make a shot on the target 5 times meanwhile Manchester United was able to make a shot on target 6 times.


Manchester United was playing away from home in the PSG's arena and they are unbeaten in 7. This was Neymar's 500th club game of his career. 


Also Read:


NBA: Los Angeles Lakers win NBA finals after 10 years, LeBron James wins his 4th Finals MVP.


French Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Novak Djokovic for the 13th French Open Title. equals with Roger Federer.


In the 2018-19 UCL season, Rashford was the one who put PSG out of the UEFA Champions League by making a stoppage-time penalty. In this game, he fired a powerful shot from the edge of the penalty area to the bottom left corner of the net.


12', De Maria made a powerful curl shot from the middle edge of the box but it was superbly saved by De Gea.


Just under a minute in the 12th minute of the De Gea made another great save.   


23', Goal- Manchester United- Bruno Fernandes, Diallo made a mistake and he fouled Martial, Referee pointed to the penalty spot. Manchester United's Goli Navas saved the first attempt but referee cancelled that penalty and gave another penalty to Manchester United because Navas was off his line. This time Manchester's No. 18 didn't make a mistake and put a ball into the net, Navas jumped the wrong side to stop a ball. 


48', Once again De Gea saved Manchester United as he stopped Mbappe's right-footed powerful shot going into the net of Manchester United's post. A splendid save by Dave de Gea. This was his third stop of the night.   


55', Goal- PSG- Martial(OG), Martial tried to clear a ball on Neymar's serve but he was unable to do it with his header and he put a ball into a net. He scored a goal for his opposing team. Neymar with the cross coming in and it came off the head of Manchester United's center forward. It's an own goal. 


58', Rashford had a great chance to score a goal when he was alone running with a ball and nearly going to shoot a ball but he was intercepted by PSG's defender. 


87', Goal- Manchester United, Rashford, Rashford got a ball from Pogba and made one turn, and with two touches to a ball, he made a powerful right-footed shot from the edge of the box. Navas had no answer to stop that shot. Rashford's late goal gave them a 2-1 victory in the first game of Group H. 


Group H Table:

TeamGPWLDPoints
RB Leipzig11003
Manchester United 11003
PSG10100
Istanbul Basaksehir10100


Also Read:

UEFA Champions League: Barcelona crushes Hungarian side Ferencvaros.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment