Mission 'Revenge' successful without the help of the holders, left to rest in anticipation of the Champions League: Tuesday, February 12, PSG dominated Dijon (6-1) at the Gaston-Gérard stadium. The Parisians therefore join the semi-finals of the Coupe de France on Wednesday.
Faced with a Dijon formation that long believed it could repeat the feat of 1st November in the league (2-1 victory), the teammates of Kylian Mbappé, the only one of the "Fantastic Four" to have been aligned, ensured the essential to continue to claim the national "Grand Slam". Ambitions that could however be thwarted by a calendar overloaded with victory in Dijon, since the semi-finals of the Coupe de France are scheduled for March 3 and 4, a week before the return match of 8e of the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund.
Busy calendar
Wednesday in Burgundy, after the equalization of Mounir Chouiar (13e), in the wake of his teammate Wesley Lautoa's own goal (2e), Mbappé gave the advantage back to PSG (44e). Thiago Silva (49e) or Pablo Sarabia (56e, 91e) added to the brand in the second half to give more depth to Parisian success.
Less than a week from the 8e of the Champions League final in Dortmund, coach Thomas Tuchel took advantage of this Cup match to blow his injured Neymar, Marquinhos, Presnel Kimpembe, Marco Verratti, or Angel Di Maria and Mauro Icardi, left on the bench. But, in a very revamped team, only the young Tanguy Kouassi (17 years old) and Mitchel Bakker (19 years old) were generally up to the task, unlike Julian Draxler or Ander Herrera, suffering.
