Ousmane Dembélé inflicted a small bridge on Bernardo Silva before sending a shot over the bar during PSG-Manchester City (4-2) on Wednesday. And that destroyed the Portuguese a little.
He had just regained the captain's armband after the exit of Kevin De Bruyne. A few moments later, Bernardo Silva suffered the kind of actions that he is rather used to inflicting on his opponents, Wednesday during PSG's victory against Manchester City (4-2) in the Champions League. While his team tried to contain the Parisian assaults at 2-2, the Portuguese international (98 caps, 13 goals) found himself defending as left back on Ousmane Dembélé in his penalty area.
Small bridge and strike on the bar
But the Parisian winger easily eliminated him with a small surgical bridge before sending a missile from the right onto the crossbar of Ederson's goal (70th). Seeing the slow motion, Bernardo Silva appeared devastated to have undergone this small bridge, often considered humiliating. The former Monegasque huffed in annoyance while shaking his head, disgusted at finding himself on the wrong side of the small bridge.
If Dembélé's action was unsuccessful, PSG – trailing 0-2 in the 56th minute – finally managed to crack Manchester City (4-2) thanks to goals from Joao Neves (78th) and Gonçalo Ramos (90th+3). The end of a difficult evening for Bernardo Silva, in difficulty throughout the match. Pep Guardiola also pointed to the difficult connection with his player as one of the reasons for the team's failure.
-“Paris had one more player in the middle, it was difficult to control this sector, but they were better, we have to accept that. The connection with Bernardo Silva was not feasible, their transition game was much too fast for us, we couldn't defend,” said the Spaniard.
Ousmane Dembélé, on the bench at kick-off after having barely recovered from the flu, helped make the difference for PSG by scoring the goal to reduce the gap (56th), then making endure the Mancunian defense.
