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FC Augsburg conceded a late 1: 2 (0: 0) defeat in a friendly against Paris Saint-Germain. The Bundesliga club showed a courageous performance against the French top club in Orleáns on Wednesday. Only a curious own goal by captain Jeffrey Gouweleeuw in the second minute of stoppage time screwed up the draw for the FCA. The Parisians had taken the lead in a balanced game through the German international Julian Draxler (62.
Orleáns – Minute), Florian Niederlechner equalized for the Swabians just four minutes later. Gouweleeuw’s ricochet into his own goal caused the defeat.
Nevertheless, coach Markus Weinzierl can go into the last phase of the season preparation with a lot of optimism. His protégés played at eye level with PSG and had good chances to score – Sergio Córdova hit the post just moments before the 2-1 draw.
The French of coach Mauricio Pochettino lacked most of the stars such as Kylian Mbappé, Neymar, Angel di Maria or Marco Verratti, and the newcomers to Italy’s European champion goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and the Spanish old master Sergio Ramos joined the team later. In addition to Draxler, his German teammate Thilo Kehrer and goalkeeper routine Keylor Navas ran on.
FC Augsburg had played 2-2 in their previous two test matches against Hamburger SV and Qarabag FK from Azerbaijan. At the end of next week, the dress rehearsal against Cagliari Calcio will take place before the DFB Cup season begins in Greifswald. dpa
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