PSG traveled this Friday (9 p.m.) to Burgundy to face Auxerre as part of the 14th day of L1 2024/2025 and the Parisians could not do better than 0-0. As against Nantes (1-1) last week, they largely dominated but lacked realism. Auxerre goalkeeper Donovan Léon was the best player, by far, and Paris therefore only took a point when three were reaching out to him.
The compositions:
The composition of PSG in Auxerre: Donnarumma – Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Mendes – Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Ruiz (Asensio, 79e) – Lee (Doué, 67e), Ramos (Kolo Muani, 62e), Barcola (Dembélé, 62e)
The PSG bench: Safonov, Beraldo, Skriniar, Zague, Neves, Dembélé, Asensio, Doué, Kolo Muani
The composition of Auxerre against PSG: Léon – Hoever (Joly, 84th), Osho, Jubal, Akpa, Mensah – Perrin (Onaiwu, 77th), Owusu, Danish, Traoré – Sinayoko (Bair, 83rd)
The Auxerre bench: Negrel, Diomandé, Joly, Diousse, Raveloson, Bair, Maddy, Aye, Onaiwu
The match sheet:
The goals: /
Warnings: Traoré (73rd, obstruction on Zaire-Emery), Sinayoko (76th, antiplay), Pacho (85th, late tackle on Onaiwu)
The match:
PSG kicked off and took the ball from the start against AJA regrouped in defense (1st). After a long sequence, an opening from Pacho achieves nothing (2nd). On a superb deep opening, Nuno Mendes is in front of the goalkeeper but he misses his control and only obtains a cornercleared (4th). PSG launches a good counter which ends with a shot from Ruiz over the top but Barcola was offside before (8th). A bad pass from Lee offers a counter but Mensah's cross is missed (11th).
PSG recovers an interesting ball but Zaire-Emery plays poorly with Barcola (13th). Auxerre attacks but Marquinhos pushes back with a good header (17th). Lee launches Ruiz who sends a perfect right foot cross for Ramos, he cuts to 6m but Leon makes a huge save (18th)! On Lee's corner, Ramos heads again but Leon catches it easily (19th). Mendes accelerates well on the left and center but an Auxerrois cuts in front of Ruiz who was about to resume (22nd).
Auxerre has an opportunity in the area but Mendes comes back well and against Perrin who had struck (24th). PSG works on the width but Auxerre defends its goal very well (27th). Fabian Ruiz thinks to open the scoring at the far post after a deep run and a cross from Barcola but he is refused (28th). The winger is offside at the start but the VAR checks (29th). Offside confirmed with one breath. Auxerre centers, Donnarumma catches and quickly restarts for Barcola but Jubal cuts well (32nd).
Nuno Mendes and Barcola combine very well on the left, Mendes shoots from the right against the goalkeeper who wins his duel (33rd)! Ramos was alone in the axis… From the right, Lee crosses and Ramos deflects with a header, but at the goalkeeper (35th). A good off-center free kick from AJA is cleared by PSG and Paris recovers the same in stride by Hakimi (37th). Lee shoots it, it is cleared on Barcola who misses his recovery (39th).
Found in the axis of the goal, Lee hits from afar and it narrowly misses (44th). Lee sends a perfect opening in the back for Mendes who crosses without control but his delivery pushed back to 6m (45th). A final counter against Auxerre gives a thrill but Barcola clears. At the break, Paris leads in points, narrowly, but not in the score and the game restarts without changes even if Doué is already warming up.
Auxerre has a very good counter but Zaire-Emery defends superbly against Perrin. The counter goes and Hakimi overflows on the right, he crosses for Ramos who takes over in the area but Leon catches it in two stages (49th). Faced with a low block, Ruiz tries from afar but is not wound enough to catch the top corner (53rd). In the process, Lee does the same and Leon performs under the pressure of the attackers but the corner does nothing (54th).
Hakimi begins to make real differences on the right but his cross is blocked then his big breakthrough concluded with a powerful strike is repelled by Leon at the near post (56th). PSG is very frightened on a long ball with Marquinhos who delivers towards Donnarumma but the lobe! Pacho fortunately clears (58th). Ruiz infiltrates the area well but is blocked and the corner does nothing (59th).
PSG pushes very hard but Mendes' cross for Ramos is deflected for a corner by Jubal, well placed (61st). Paris continues to push very hard and Ruiz slips into the area as he strikes, then a defender deflects in front of Dembélé, who has just entered (65th). Hakimi emerges again and sends a dangerous cross that a player clears in front of Kolo Muani (66th). On an action on the left, Mendes crosses for Vitinha in the area who connects superb control and a huge strike on the bar (69th)!
On a ball stupidly lost by Zaire-Emery, Sinayoko serves Traoré who hits hard at the near post but Donnarumma makes an excellent save (70th). Hakimi and Ruiz find themselves in the area to combine but they are too imprecise in the 6m (74th). Each counter is narrowly held and Vitinha tries his luck from afar, without success (75th). On a deep pass from Dembélé, Ruiz finds himself hitting from the right at the end of the race and misses the target (77th).
Hakimi accelerates full axis and finds Kolo Muani who passes towards Dembélé but he stumbles once again on Léon (78th)! A little heat on the PSG goal on an action on the right side but it's clear. It goes in the other direction with yet another Parisian center pushed back (81st). Dembélé hits again and hits hard but it misses (83rd). A free kick from AJA is captured by Donnarumma and the counter goes but it is wasted (87th).
PSG ended the match badly, with Doué and Dembélé multiplying failed duels on the sides (90th). Dembélé, however, snatches a corner on a breakthrough (91st). He pulls it and it doesn't do anything, obviously. Hakimi causes another corner but Dembélé shoots again haphazardly. In the process, Kolo Muani lost a duel against Léon while he was alone (94th)! Paris pushes and Doué shoots into the area but Léon makes an incredible save close to the post (95th)!
The impact on the ranking:
Before the meeting, the ranking is as follows:
- PSG : 33 points (+26)
- Marseille : 26 points (+12)
- Monaco : 26 points (+10)
- Lille : 23 points (+8)
- Lyon : 22 points (+6)
The pre-match:
20h58 : Evening parking
20h58 : The two teams are on the field and exchange pennants.
20h55: At kick-off, Barcola is no longer the top scorer in Ligue 1 since penalty specialist Jonathan David has struck again…
20h52 : The warm-up is over
20h50 : The PSG bench: Safonov, Beraldo, Skriniar, Zague, Neves, Dembélé, Asensio, Doué, Kolo Muani
The Auxerre bench: Negrel, Diomandé, Joly, Diousse, Raveloson, Bair, Maddy, Aye, Onaiwu
20h45 : The warm-up is coming to an end for PSG and AJA
20h30 : Start of warm-up for Donnarumma
20h15 : PSG will play in pink this evening, a first since Angers/PSG (2-4)
20h05 : The compositions have just fallen
