At a firm pace! The Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) of France did not fail and certified its classification for the round of 16 of the 2025 Club World Cup, after imposing itself 0-2 to the Seattle Sounders of the United States, in a meeting in which the Galo team was enough for the occasional quality brushstroke to win a victory and keep the first place of the group B of this FIFA tournament.
Thus, the PSG, also benefited from the victory (1-0) of Atlético de Madrid over the Botafogo, concluded as a leader for what the pupils of Luis Enrique Martínez will be measured in the eighth stage with the second team of Group A, the Inter de Miami of the US Uruguayan Luis Suárez and the Spaniards Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba.
This duel will be on Sunday, June 29 (12 pm et) at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium of the city of Atlanta. To buy tickets visit the official site https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/club-World-cup/usa-2025 . And to see free this match enters the platform Dazn.com .
Parisian power
Forced to win after the unexpected defeat (0-1) embedded before the Botafogo, the PSG as a whole forgot any type of probatures and opted for the same block that was imposed by a clear 4-0 to Atlético de Madrid on the first day of the FIFA tournament.
Only a change introduced the Spanish coach Luis Enrique, who dispensed with Portuguese striker Gonçalo Ramos in favor of the young Senny Mayulu who acted as false nine.
The same drawing that the PSG used in the final of the Champions League against Inter Milan, but as Mayulu was clear, a midfielder with arrival, is not Ousmane Dembelé, which lasts his recovery of the injury he suffered at the beginning of this month with the French team.
Luckily for the French team who continue to perform at the same level that they did in the Munich final are the Portuguese midfielder Vitinha and the end Désiré Doué, who had the twelve minutes of a good opportunity to open the score.
Although the clearest occasion at the start of the match was for the Seattle Sounders after a failure in the ball of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma who, overwhelmed by the pressure of Paul Rothrock, delivered to the ball the ball to Jesus who did not take advantage of the gift and finished off.
A lack of glue that the American team did not take long to pay after seeing how at 35 minutes the PSG was ahead in the scorer (0-1) with a goal from the georgian Khvicha Kvarathskhelia that diverted to the nets a shot from the front of the Portuguese area vitinha.
This goal seemed to end the strength of the premises that granted in the final minutes of the first half the facilities that had denied him at the start of the game.
But, despite the quality brushstrokes of Doué and the good work of the always outstanding vitinha, those of Luis Enrique had to wait for the second period to definitively sentence the contest and the pass to the round of 16.
This sentence brought the signing of the Moroccan side Achraf Hakimi, which culminated at 66 minutes (0-2) a counterattack driven by Bradley Barcola with which the French team punished one of the few occasions in which the Seattle Sounders, despite the adverse score, dared to look for the rival goal.
The local team, with everything already lost, seemed to get rid of that shyness in the final minutes, in which the Seattle Sounders sought to give, at least one goal to his dirty hobby, although if someone was close to scoring it was the PSG in a shot at the 85 minutes of Warren Zaire-Emery who took the Camerunés Nouhou Tolo under the same line.
Thus they aligned
– Seattle Sounders (0): Frei; Alex Roldán, Ragen, Bell (Minoungou, m.72), Tolo; Vargas (Morris, m.87), Cristian Roldán; Kent (Kossa-Rienzi, m.56), Rusnak (Leyva, m.72), Rothrock and Ferreira (Musovski, m.56).
– DT: Brian Schmetzer.
-Paris Saint-Germain (2): Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Joao Neves (Zaire-Emery, M.64), Vitinha, Fabian; Doué (Mbaye, m.83), Mayulu (Gonçalo Ramos, m.77) and Kvarathskhelia (BARCOLA, M.64).
– DT: Luis Enrique Martínez.
– Goals: 1-0, m.35: Kvarathskhelia. 2-0, m.66: Hakimi.
– Referee: Cristian Garay (Chi). He showed Yellow card to Neves for the PSG.
– Incidents: Meeting corresponding to the third and last day of Group B of the Club World Cup played at the Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle (United States).
