He ran for party hero, but ended up being the villain. Football is cruel, he doesn’t understand what he deserves and Paulo Gazzaniga he experienced it from the start in the Champions LeagueA first full of lights, but with a shadow that ended up eclipsing a beautiful performance.
The keeper of Girona He was the main protagonist of the match against PSG inside Parc des Princes. He left people and foreigners amazed by his great interventions, but ended up leaving an image to forget in the last minute that ended up condemning his team, also debutants in European Cup.
An action where failure was the most complicated, but that is what finally happened. PSG harasses the rival surface and finds the goal at the most unexpected moment. Nuno Mendes He recovered the ball lying on his left profile. He raised his head and fired a central shot which slightly deflected a red and white defender.
The ball was coming towards Gazzaniga who only had to put his hands out to block and resolve the danger. He got down on his knees, put on his gloves, but the ball slipped through his fingers and went under his legs to find its way into the back of the net. He couldn’t believe it. He shook his head. He deplored the madness of a PSG that finally found the palm. He became the first goalkeeper of a Spanish team to score an own goal in the Champions League. It couldn’t be more cruel.
Your previous exhibition
Gazzaniga’s mistake was the only negative point in an exceptional match by the Argentine goalkeeper. Last year, Zamora finished ninth in La Liga and showed in Paris against the European continent that he is a reliable goalkeeper. During the first 89 minutes of the match, he put on an exhibition.
In total, there were 5 interventions, several of great value, and he prevented 1.12 PSG goals in what was a storm, especially in the second half. And Gazzaniga barely had to put on his overalls in the first 45 minutes. Zaire-Emery And Asensio They tried their luck, but both shots went inches wide of the Argentine goalkeeper’s goal. Girona had moments of control in this sequence and that freed the goalkeeper.
After the break he got to work and started destroying everything near his area. Certainly high in the corners and infuriating a Ousmane Dembele who kept trying.
Gazzaniga regrets his mistake in the PSG goal.
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It was the Frenchman who took one of the hands of the day. The “mosquito” entered the area and threw his left leg into the corner. It was a goal or a goal. A very powerful shot but stopped by an iron and unbreakable strike from Gazzaniga who received the congratulations of his teammates. It was not surprising.
If the stop at the ex of the Barca It was good, the stop on the club’s former footballer was of the same level. the real Madrid Achraf Hakimi. It was the 85th minute and the Moroccan winger completed a cross from close range from the left profile. Miraculously, Gazzaniga reached out his foot to touch the ball and deflect it into the corner. The despair in the Parisian team was total.
It seemed that Gazzaniga was determined to spoil the new PSG’s Champions League debut without Mbappé. However, the tables were turned at the last gasp. The tiny Parque de los Príncipes roared like a beast and the Argentine giant collapsed to its knees.
