At the end of a match with few opportunities, the PSG women won the fourth Coupe de France in their history by beating Fleury (1-0) thanks to a goal in the last quarter of an hour.
Paris Saint-Germain, big favorite, won (1-0) the French Women’s Football Cup in front of Fleury this Saturday during the final in Montpellier, after a long insipid meeting. A quarter of an hour from the end (74th), Dutch international Lieke Martens, who entered the game, broke the deadlock with a cross-shot and offered victory to PSG, reduced to ten in the 66th minute following to the expulsion of Thiniba Samoura.
PSG thus won its fourth trophy two years after its last victory at the expense of Lyon. The band of Jocelyn Prêcheur, inducted during the season in place of his father, remains in the race to achieve the double. Under the eye of national coach Hervé Renard, the partners of ex-Montpellier Sakina Karchaoui (2009-2020) thus digested their European disappointment, after their elimination on Sunday in the semi-final in front of Lyon.
Fleury, who was playing the first final in his history, was up to the occasion as he had been in the semi-final against the Lyon ogre (0-0, 5 tab to 4), but was a little too wait-and-see. Fabrice Abriel’s team, trained at PSG, has not said its last word during this season. Indeed, she has her destiny in her hands to participate in the first play-off of the championship and participate in the semi-finals against Lyon.
Sterile domination
On the land of “Loulou” Nicollin, one of the pioneers of women’s football, and in front of 8,011 spectators, PSG, deprived of international center forward Marie-Antoinette Katoto, had possession of the ball as absolute as it was sterile. During the first hour, she never found an opening in Fleury’s well-organized and, above all, very compact defense.
Paradoxically, it was outnumbered that the Parisian team found space and a little more creativity. In the 66th minute, young defender Thiniba Samoura, impressive until then, was sent off following a second warning and a new foul on attacker Rosemonde Kouassi.
Eight minutes later, the Dutchwoman Martens, who entered the game, scored the only goal of the match for PSG following a harmless cross. Parisian captain Grace Geyoro created a screen and thus deceived the vigilance of goalkeeper Manon Heil. From then on, PSG had two break points on a twenty-meter strike from Geyoro (80th) and a duel lost by Tabitha Chawinga (82nd), voted best player in the championship. The hardest part had been done to win their first trophy of the season.
