A stoppage-time objective by forward Ousmane Dembele earned PSG a 1-0 win over AS Monaco within the French Super Container on Sunday as the Ligue 1 champions lifted the trophy for the third sequential season.
Record 13-time champs PSG, who confronted final season’s Ligue 1 runners-up Monaco after the Parisians had won both the alliance and the French Container, won the competition for the 11th time within the final 12 years.
It was a extraordinary diversion between two groups who play great football, said Luis Enrique. The result is well merited and reflects our mastery against one of the most excellent groups in France and in Europe.
In a enthusiastic experience at Doha’s Stadium 974, made from 974 reused shipping holders for the 2022 World Glass, PSG had 27 chances nine of them on target without breaking the deadlock.
But Dembele guaranteed the amusement did not go to punishments when he fixed the win for the French champions two minutes into harm time, netting interior the distant post after Fabian Ruiz bolstered him with a slick pass over the face of the goal.
Summer marking Crave Doue was near to giving PSG the lead within the ninth miniature but hit the bar whereas Lee Kang-In was denied by Monaco goalkeeper Philipp Koehn with an exertion from separate in first-half stoppage time.
Dembele and Vitinha moreover tried Koehn within the opening 45 minutes whereas Monaco’s Maghnes Akliouche and Takumi MinaÂmino constrained Gianluigi DonnarÂumma into spares, with the PSG guardian returning to the side after recouping from a confront injury.
A objective within the final diminutive continuously feels like being cut within the back, said Monaco’s Austrian coach, Adi Huetter. But being genuine, PSG merited to win. They had more chances.
No objectives were scored within the to begin with half of a French Super Container for the primary time since 2010 when Olympique de Marseille beat PSG 5-4 on punishments after the coordinate finished goalless.
PSG, who beat Nantes and Toulouse within the past two versions, won 4-2 at Monaco final month in Ligue 1 with Dembele scoring a second-half brace.
Four-time victors Monaco final lifted the trophy in 2000. They were runners-up in 2017 and 2018, losing both times to PSG.
PSG return to alliance activity another Sunday when they have St Etienne whereas Monaco visit humble Nantes on Friday.
