{"id":183498,"date":"2025-10-01T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183498\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:42:07","slug":"psg-2-1-barcelona-oct-1-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183498\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG 2-1 Barcelona (Oct 1, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Substitute Gon\u00e7alo Ramos<\/a> struck a last-minute winner as Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> became the first team to win three times away to Barcelona<\/a> in European competitions with a 2-1 win at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys.<\/p>\n

Ramos sealed a Champions League comeback victory to the delight of PSG’s former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique after Achraf Hakimi<\/a> had exposed the hosts’ high defensive line.<\/p>\n

Ferran Torres<\/a> had put Barcelona ahead inside 20 minutes to establish a new club record of scoring in 45 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

But the reigning European champions were level by halftime as Senny Mayulu<\/a>, 19, converted in fine fashion.<\/p>\n

This was a real heavyweight clash between two teams that had won their opening Champions League ties and could conceivably contest the Budapest final in May.<\/p>\n

Both sides were without key players as Barcelona lined up minus goalkeeper Joan Garc\u00eda<\/a>, Gavi<\/a>, Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez<\/a> and Raphinha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PSG’s casualty list included captain Marquinhos<\/a>, D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9<\/a>, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia<\/a> and Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a>, and there was more frustration before kickoff as Jo\u00e3o Neves<\/a> reported a problem in the warmup and was not risked.<\/p>\n

Lamine Yamal<\/a> almost skated his way through the PSG defense in the opening moments and Barcelona did all the early running.<\/p>\n

But Illia Zabarnyi<\/a> nearly gave the visitors the lead after rising unchallenged from a Nuno Mendes<\/a> corner.<\/p>\n

\"PSGPSG players celebrate after scoring a goal against Barcelona in the Champions League.<\/p>\n

Defender Zabarnyi was in more familiar territory two minutes later with a goal-line clearance, Yamal’s pass splitting the defense and Torres skipping past PSG goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barcelona went ahead after 19 minutes as Vitinha’s wayward pass was pounced on by Yamal, who fed Pedri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ball was quickly moved wide to Marcus Rashford<\/a> and his intelligent pass was matched by the sliding finish of Torres.<\/p>\n

Dani Olmo<\/a> saw an effort deflected wide but Luis Enrique’s side grew in confidence as the first half developed.<\/p>\n

Rashford conceded a needless free kick for Hakimi to test Wojciech Szczesny<\/a>, and the Parisians leveled seven minutes before the break.<\/p>\n

Mendes showed little effects of a kick on the Achilles moments earlier to stride forward with purpose.<\/p>\n

Pau Cubarsi’s weak interception attempt allowed Mayulu, a scorer off the bench in last season’s 5-0 Champions League final demolition of Inter Milan, to equalize with a confident left-footed finish.<\/p>\n

It should have got better for the French visitors, but the unmarked Bradley Barcola<\/a> lifted the ball over the crossbar three minutes from halftime.<\/p>\n

Barcola bypassed Gerard Mart\u00edn<\/a> after the restart to warm Szczesny’s gloves, but Barcelona almost regained the lead as Hakimi rushed back to block Olmo’s goalbound effort.<\/p>\n

Lee Kang-in<\/a> cannoned a shot against the woodwork seven minutes from time and PSG’s strong finish was rewarded by the clinical Ramos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Substitute Gon\u00e7alo Ramos struck a last-minute winner as Paris Saint-Germain became the first team to win three times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-183498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}