For this final before the letter, all eyes were on Kylian Mbappé… announced with insistence at the white house. The world champion, uncertain before the meeting, is part of the base eleven.
The first ten minutes are dominated by the band in Benzema. But a sterile domination that gives nothing concrete.
In the 13th Mbappé stumbles on an excellent Thibaut Courtois. A few minutes later Donnaruma took off on a shot from Benzema.
The Mbappé-Benzema distance duel rages on. Young Kylian opened the scoring in the 34th… but his goal was canceled for offside. Benzema creates two big chances but it is his friend in the France team who finds the opening. Mbappé goes like a rocket, he fixes Alaba before disgusting Courtois who can only see the damage. Mbappé puts PSG in orbit. It’s 0-1, we’ve been playing for 40 minutes.
In the 54th minute… another goal from Mbappé… once again canceled for offside. Undoubtedly the turning point of the game.
At the hour mark, Kimpembe slips the ball back to his goalkeeper. A seemingly innocuous action but Donnaruma misses his clearance in front of Benzema. Vinicius takes advantage of this. He recovers the leather, slips it to Benzema which equalizes.
Real is revived. The pressure mounts in front of the Parisian goal, Benzema presses… And the 76th, on a brilliant pass from Modric, the French striker gives the lead to the Merengue… Before definitely disgusting the Parisians two minutes later. The people of Madrid are overexcited, they will no longer be worried.
