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Vintage Di Maria helps PSG overwhelm Real Madrid

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Reuters
19 September, 2019, 03:35 am
Last modified: 19 September, 2019, 03:44 am

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Vintage Di Maria helps PSG overwhelm Real Madrid

In the absence of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Edinson Cavani, Di Maria provided two first-half goals as PSG suffocated Real throughout.

Reuters
19 September, 2019, 03:35 am
Last modified: 19 September, 2019, 03:44 am
Paris Saint Germain player Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring against Real Madrid. Reuters
Paris Saint Germain player Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring against Real Madrid. Reuters

Angel Di Maria produced a vintage performance with two goals to help Paris St Germain claim a 3-0 home win over Real Madrid in their Champions League Group A opening game on Wednesday.

PSG 3-0 Real Madrid pic.twitter.com/1qQlYotbLw— B/R Football (@brfootball) September 18, 2019

In the absence of the formidable attacking trio of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Edinson Cavani, Di Maria provided two first-half goals as PSG suffocated Real throughout and Thomas Meunier added a third in stoppage time.

Real, European champions three years in a row from 2016-18 who eliminated PSG in the last 16 in 2017-18, failed to muster a shot on target and suffered their first defeat of the season.

Keylor Navas for PSG this season:
• 2 games
• 2 clean sheets
• 0 goals conceded

Thibaut Courtois for Real Madrid this season:
• 5 games
• 0 clean sheets
• 9 goals conceded https://t.co/lRn1LuVS8o— Squawka Football (@Squawka) September 18, 2019

PSG lead the standings on three points, ahead of Club Brugge and Galatasaray, who played out a goalless draw earlier on Wednesday.

Although PSG's win could be seen as a statement, the French champions still have a long way to go before putting three consecutive last-16 eliminations behind them for good including last season's embarrassing defeat by Manchester United.

Real Madrid have lost 3 of their last 4 Champions League games by 3+ goals.

In their first 256 UCL games, the club only lost 5 games by that margin. pic.twitter.com/gGBDFhPtI8— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) September 18, 2019

With Neymar suspended and Mbappe and Cavani injured, Argentine Mauro Icardi started up front after playing his first half hour for PSG in a Ligue 1 game against Strasbourg last weekend.

He had little impact, though, as Di Maria made sure his compatriot's lack of match time went unnoticed.

EMPHATIC WIN

Eden Hazard started for Real, who also had to cope with the absence of the injured Marcelo, Isco, Luka Modric, Marco Asensio and Fede Valverde as well as the suspended Sergio Ramos and Nacho Fernandez.

0 - Real Madrid failed to have a single shot on target against PSG tonight, the first time they have failed to do so in the UEFA Champions League since Opta began collecting such data in the competition in 2003-04 (in 167 games). Shy. #UCL #ChampionsLeague pic.twitter.com/t4c3yhtHar— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) September 18, 2019

PSG started fast and were rewarded for their early domination in the 14th minute when Di Maria stabbed the ball past Thibaut Courtois at the near post from Juan Bernat's cross.

It was former Real player Di Maria's 25th goal in his 100th appearance in a European competition.

PSG mood: pic.twitter.com/wLNTOeraaw— B/R Football (@brfootball) September 18, 2019

He made it 26 in the 33rd minute, curling a superb shot past Courtois from 20 metres after Idrissa Gueye had cut through the Real midfield.

Real forward Gareth Bale found the back of the net shortly afterwards but the goal was ruled out by the VAR for handball.

PSG left little space to Real and Di Maria came close to making it 3-0, only for his chip to land on the roof of the net after the Argentine had been sent through by the impressive Gueye.

PSG finally get a W. pic.twitter.com/PXOf80digh— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) September 18, 2019

Real forward Karim Benzema beat Keylor Navas from close range in the 77th minute, but the goal was ruled out for a Lucas Vazquez offside.

Fullback Meunier wrapped up an emphatic win when he scored from close range one minute into stoppage time following a PSG counter-attack.

Football

real madrid / Paris Saint Germain / UEFA Champions League

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