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After Le Havre last weekend (9-0 victory), PSG continued its preparation with the reception of Waasland-Beveren. Before its major recovery meetings (Saint-Etienne in the Coupe de France final on July 24, OL in the League Cup final on July 31 and the Champions League quarter-final against the Atalanta on August 12), the club of the capital took advantage of this meeting in the original format (4 quarters time of 30 minutes) to find the form and the automatisms. Tuchel lined up an eleven guy, or almost. Thiago Silva and Marquinhos formed the hinge with a Bakker again in the left side. Verratti and Gueye found a starting place in the middle, while Neymar, Di Maria, Icardi and Mbappé were aligned in front.
As at the Stade Océane, the Parisians immediately occupied the opposing half, confiscating the ball in the first minutes. Unlike last weekend, the attacks seemed less frank, like these two missed opportunities by Mbappé (2nd, 5th), the fault at a lower intensity. Rather discreet until then, Neymar tried to speed things up against this adversary who descends into the 2nd Belgian division. His first breakthrough ended with an intervention by goalkeeper Pirard (15th), when the second, a lob attempted in the area after a Verratti inspiration, was canceled by an offside (17th). The danger was becoming clearer, all the more so as domination was becoming ever more overwhelming. Mbappé took everyone speed on the left and forced Vukotic to push the ball into his own nets (1-0, 21st).
Neymar, Icardi and Mbappé still score
The festival could start in this Parc des Princes, which found light for the first time since qualifying against the BvB, on March 11. The Belgians still made go through a thrill to the 5000 spectators present this evening when Albanese hooked a Thiago Silva very naive on the spot, before crushing his shot (24th). PSG quickly resumed its march forward and even widened the gap. Icardi missed himself on goal by hitting the post after this service from Mbappé but Caufriez hung on Neymar in the continuity of the action to concede the penalty (27th). The Brazilian transformed the sentence (28th, 2-0). After the first break at half an hour of play, the Ile-de-France clashed with the defense (Mbappé 31st, Di Maria 39th, Gueye 41st) and sometimes demonstrated their sufficiency.
Icardi was still missing on this double opportunity (44th) but obtained a new penalty since Vutkovic countered the second attempt with his hand and even left the field, expelled with this second yellow. Neymar started and feigned his shot to shift Icardi, who came to conclude at full speed (3-0, 47th). The spirits heated up a bit on the lawn without preventing Mbappé from opening his personal counter (4-0, 60th + 1) before the break and the many changes. Tuchel changed his entire team to bring in, among others, Rico, Dagba, Kimpembe, Kurzawa, Sarabia and Choupo-Moting. The attacker was quick to show off by signing a sumptuous double, a sequence of control-oriented double contact-strike coiled (5-0, 65th), then a resumption of the volley whose rebound deceived the goalkeeper (6-0 , 66e).
The magnificent double of Choupo-Moting
Even if a wind of panic covered the Parisian surface on this Koita raid (73rd), this PSG bis did not weaken, like the young Kalimuendo whose recovery crashed on the post (75th). The honor was with the youth in this last half hour of play. The striker gave way to the equally young Kays Ruiz (91st) while another child of the club scored the next goal, the work of Mbe Soh at the reception at the far post of this Sarabia corner (7-0, 93rd). Dagba completely lacked a center that should have been decisive for the Spanish attacking midfielder (97th), while Pembélé replaced a Kurzawa in the recovery phase (103rd). The tempo fell for the end of the match, but not the concentration of Rico, author of two beautiful parades on this free kick by Koita (98th), which ended on the bar, and on this dry strike by Milosevic (114th). The score ended on this 7-0. We will find PSG next Tuesday for a new friendly match. It will be against Celtic (to follow live on our site).
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