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FOOTBALL: Ligue 1: PSG snatches draw at Saint-Etienne and remains the leader

 

Paris SG snatched a draw (2-2) against Saint-Etienne after leading 2-0, Sunday in the "cauldron" Geoffroy-Guichard in closing match the 11th day of Ligue 1.

A goal in stoppage time Matuidi avoided PSG, powerplay after excluding Lemoine (60), to grant its first defeat of the season . Matuidi tied unintentionally. His deep cross was only touched Edison Cavani before the Etienne cage before the ball bounces, and deceiving the goalkeeper Stéphane Ruffier (90 +3).

The Paris team, unbeaten in 30 official meetings and setbacks in Reims, March 2 (1-0) retains the top spot for the benefit of goal difference to die , thought of Monaco, second (against 13 + 12).

For their part, the Greens, who have not lost to Paris-SG since last season (1 win, 3 draws with a qualification in the League Cup) are 7th.

Benjamin and Romain Hamouma Corgnet were Etienne scorers.

The first opened the scoring by taking a pass from Hamouma which benefited from a bad intervention Marquinhos after a kick on the right wing (1-0, 18th). 

Lemoine excluded

In the second half Hamouma doubled the gap, again taking advantage of approximations of the Paris defense poor output Salvatore Sirigu followed by a missed clearance Marquinhos (2-0 , 51).

This advance was deserved for ASSE. Lemoine had fired over the bar (31 ') and Brandao missed the target despite two favorable positions (10th, 29th). Loïc Perrin, head, had also missed the target receiving a corner played by Hamouma (40th).

Thereafter, Stéphanois, private Lemoine, excluded, forehead blood unjustly, it seems, for a second warning after receiving an elbow from Ezequiel Lavezzi (60th) defended their lead with a lot of solidarity and peace in a boiling cauldron, although Cavani has managed to reduce the gap by taking center delivered from the left by Maxwell (68th).

But all in all, Paris was not very dangerous and hitherto has not been much later, with only a shot from Lucas pushed hard by foot Stéphane ruffier (71) despite a large possession (65%). 

In the first half, Kurt Zouma had a coveted corner kick into the air by Zlatan (20th) before a shot Blaise Matuidi ball is diverted, again in corner ( 21e). Finally, Ibrahimovic sent a free kick just wide (35).

After halftime, eleven against eleven, Ibra was still dangerous on a free kick narrowly missing part (45th) before a new shot off Matuidi (54th).

And just before the goal of Matuidi, Max-Alain Gradel had missed the opportunity to bring the ASSE 3-1 on a bad output Sirigu in receiving a free kick played by Faouzi Ghulam (86th).

AFP