MATCH REPORT | PSG end tough week with a win against Angers

It was another week marked by an unconvincing performance in the UEFA Champions League for Paris Saint-Germain, however, it ended with a convincing win in Ligue 1 over SCO Angers (4-2).

By half-time, PSG were 4-0 up thanks to braces from Lee Kang-in and Ligue 1’s top scorer, Bradley Barcola. Luis Enrique had already used this game as a chance to field some of the club’s more youthful players. Despite back-to-back victories, including one over AS Monaco last week, this Angers side weren’t expected to provide stiff resistance, and they didn’t.

Senny Mayulu started the encounter, as did Lucas Beraldo, whilst Milan Skriniar made a rare appearance for Les Parisiens. With the result sealed, Yoram Zagué and Désiré Doué came on at the break. Whilst PSG looked less fluid and less capable of cutting through Angers, as they did in the first-half, they kept their opponent at arm’s length, at least until stoppage time.

Luis Enrique praises ‘complete match’ from PSG

Randal Kolo Muani could – and should – have added a fifth, squandering a glorious chance and hitting the foot of the post, however, it was instead Esteban Lepaul who reduced the deficit with a sumptuous sliced volley into the top corner. Emmanuel Bimula then got another in the dying seconds, his header inexplicably beating Gianluigi Donnarumma, once again at fault for a goal conceded by PSG. The Italian, like Kolo Muani, are both under pressure. Their performance against Les Angévins did not change that.

It is a result that keeps Monaco at a distance of six points in Ligue 1. “It was a very complete match from our team. We can consider that it was an easy match, or not, but it seemed to me that it was a match with risk. We were extremely efficient,” reacted Luis Enrique post-match. Despite their difficulties in Europe, PSG remain unbeaten in Ligue 1.

GFFN | Luke Entwistle