In a season in which Paris Saint Germain aimed to go for everything, came the first big blow of this 2022 in European football with the news that Nice, one of the best teams in Ligue 1, charged mauricio Pochettino and eliminated him from the French Cup. Lionel Messi returned to be a starter and the regulations of the contest allowed him to wear the 10 on his back again. Along with him were in the attack Mauro Icardi and the German Julian Draxler.
In the return of the Argentine captain, PSG failed to impose itself in the development of the game, although it had the clearest, but showed to be out of rhythm after having suffered the coronavirus. In the complement, there were the income of Kylian Mbappé, who also failed to twist history, and Leandro Paredes, who returned from the National Team.With the 0 to 0 consummated and without many plays to highlight, it was the turn of the definition by penalties where the figure of Marcin Bulka appeared, who left Walter Benítez on the bench, who stopped two penalties in the series and gave his team passage to the quarterfinals.
In the series, the first to fail was Paredes, whose shot was stopped by the Polish, but then equalized the Donnarumma series with his cover against Delort. Already in the series of one and one, juveil Xavi Simons had the obligation to score to continue on track, but the goalkeeper guessed the intention again. Thus, early, Paris Saint Germain says goodbye to the Coupe de France and the disappointment of the treble. He remains first in Ligue 1, with a lot of advantage, and in the Champions League he will have a hard cross against Real Madrid thinking about the passage to the quarterfinals.
