Sporting Portugal v PSG: Team effort, wastefulness, highs and lows | OneFootball

This Tuesday evening, Paris Saint-Germain lost 2-1 (video highlights Sporting Portugal/PSG) against Sporting Portugal as part of the 7th matchday of the 2025-2026 Champions League at the José Alvalade Stadium. Here are the tops and flops from this defeat.

Tops –

❤️ The collective strength in the first half.

We’ve seen a recent rise in the team’s collective play, especially the pressing. We were expecting confirmation and we were well served in terms of content. Paris rediscovered that suffocating pressing, the sequence of passes that creates openings. This, with even some variety and shots on goal.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, the shot that felt good.

Struggling lately, and not always inspired tonight either, the 24-year-old forward scored Paris’ equalizer with a very fine strike that allowed PSG to get back into the game quickly. A flash of brilliance in an evening full of missed opportunities. Let’s hope this helps for what’s next.

Flops –

😡Messy second half.

We liked the strength of the first half, but the second was much less accomplished. The play was less fluid, individualism crept back into the finishing, and the defense started to suffer. PSG no longer controls their emotions or the game over time as well as they did last season.

Inefficiency, again…

This is a recurring theme at the moment. PSG created chances but couldn’t finish. It’s becoming a real problem. Between missed actions and poor choices, the Parisians are simply not at the required level. It’s time to get closer to it.

Désiré Doué.

It’s hard to single out one attacking player in a frontline that generally needs to do better, but he was frustrating, as has been the case too often lately, looking too much for individual exploits or showmanship rather than the collective solution.

Lucas Chevalier.

The 24-year-old goalkeeper didn’t have anything easy tonight, but again he wasn’t decisive at a time when PSG needed him. Especially on the second goal, where the first shot could have been pushed away better.

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