Jean Canesse, Media365, published on Saturday January 18, 2025 at 7:08 p.m.
Trailing at half-time, PSG won at Bollaert (1-2) thanks to Bradley Barcola's goal in the final moments of the match. The Parisians won for the second time in Lens after the Coupe de France match on December 22.
A victory down to the wire, invincibility maintained, but still some doubts. Saturday evening in Lens, PSG delivered a mixed performance in Ligue 1, five days before their crucial European Cup match. In great danger in this Champions League and surely tense at the idea of playing this decisive match against Manchester City on Wednesday, Luis Enrique's troop showed a rather unusual face this season: that of a completely harmless formation.
It was particularly glaring during the first period, an act at the end of which PSG was led and had not created the slightest danger. Without Ramos (on the bench at kick-off), without Dembélé (ill) and without Hakimi (preserved), the Ile-de-France collective played at a slow trot, accelerating very rarely. It must be said that Will Still's eleven offered him, as often, intense opposition, in pressing or in the races, the Sang et Or almost logically opening the score through Nzola from a corner (1-0, 36th).
-Donnarumma to the rescue
Not necessarily any more agitated after returning from the locker room, PSG was able to count on a gift falling from the sky to equalize. On an opening behind his back, defender Sarr forgot the ball and Barcola was able to serve Ruiz at point blank range and on a plateau (1-1, 59th). A first goal on a first opportunity which did not demoralize the Artesian team and the match could have taken another turn, at 1-1, if Donnarumma had not pulled out all the stops on this dry and placed strike from Gradit (82nd). Four minutes later, the capital club scored the winning goal, at the end of a nice sequence and with Barcola finding the finish (1-2, 86th).
After more than two months without scoring in Ligue 1, the one who like Jonathan David (Lille) and Mason Greenwood (OM) has eleven goals in Ligue 1 will be able to savor even if, for him as for Paris, it was far from being a sinecure this Saturday evening. In the standings, PSG has in any case achieved a major blow, now ten points ahead of Marseille (2nd) before the Phocéens' match against Strasbourg on Sunday evening. Lens remains four lengths behind the top 4 and Monaco in the race for C1.
