The French club PSG suffered a very embarrassing defeat before the big match with the German club Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the European Champions League. In the match of the 23rd week of Ling 1 on Saturday night, Monaco beat PSG 3-1. Some key players including Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Marco Verratti were not in the team due to injury. PSG has lost this game at such a time that they will have to play against Baryon in the Champions League.
In the first half of the match at home, Monaco took an easy lead of 3-1. In the second half, as there were no goals from either side, the match ended with the same score as the first half, and Monaco managed to get a sweet victory of 3-1. This defeat is very bad and worrying for PSG. After conceding 2 goals in the 18th minute of the game, PSG could not overcome the bitter defeat. Recently, PSG has been in a constant state of struggle.
Monaco took the lead in the fourth minute of the game against the visiting team PSG. That goal was scored by Alexander Golovin, then in the 18th minute of the game, PSG scored the second goal, this time French player Wissam Ben Yedder scored and PSG trailed 2-0. Monaco, who were aggressive against PSG from the beginning, managed to score 2 goals quickly by putting continuous pressure on the game, but in the 39th minute of the game, PSG returned to the game. The young player Warren Emery scored a goal for the visiting team and made the score 2-1.
However, after Ben Yedder scored his second personal goal for Monaco in the injury time of the first half, Monaco managed to take an easy lead of 3-1 in the first half. Even in today's game, PSG's defense looked completely weak. Monaco did not seem to have any difficulty in breaking PSG's defense. Until the 20th minute of the game, PSG could not hit a single shot on the opposing team's post. While, at that time, PSG had already conceded 2 goals, in the match with 4 goals scored by both sides in the first half, Monaco managed to win the game 3-1 by saving the lead of the first half.
In today's game, when Monaco kept 41 percent of the ball possession, they shot 19 times towards PSG's post, 9 shots were on target, while PSG kept 59 percent possession, but only 2 shots were on target. Now even after this defeat, PSG remains at the top position with 54 points after 23 games. The victorious Monaco climbed to second place with 47 points from the same match. Marseille, who have played one game less, are in the same position with 46 points. If they win their game, they will climb to the second place behind Monaco.