'LEWY' SAID GOODBYE TO THE QUARTERS WITHOUT GOALS
More uncomfortable, but just as 'quarrelsome' as first leg: Lewandowski couldn't make the difference
Published:17/04/2024 - 01:41h
Updated:17/04/2024 - 01:41h
Robert Lewandowski completed a game to forget on Tuesday against Paris Saint-Germain. As in the first leg in France, the '9' was very active and 'fighting' at the front of the area, but erratic in his definition and was unsuccessful in front of goal
The FC Barcelona sacked of the UEFA Champions League with a bitter goleada home in front of Paris Saint-Germain (1-4). The night was totally conditioned by the controversial expulsion of Ronald Araújo in the first part, action that derived in the exit forced of Lamine Yamal so that ingresara Iñigo Martínez. With Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski alone up, to the Barça cost him a lot generate danger and recently in the chamber of final hour there were some attempts for forcing the extention, with more heart that football.
In the case of the Pole, in the party only touched him cross from beginning to end. With the 1-0 partial in the marker and the Barça still in numerical equality, the '9' had a big occasion in the minute 21 after a good played collective culé. The experienced forward took a bad clear of Nuno Mendes in the frontal of the area and, after outlining , took out a powerful derechazo that left slightly high.
Lewandowski, without puntería neither luck in front of the PSG
After the expulsion of Araújo, the culés grieve reacted in the complement after the 1-2 partial converted by Vitinha. The entry of Ferran Torres gave air to the team for presionar the Parisian exit and 'Lewy' brushed the so much in the 72' with a shot of half distance that forced the cut across of Donnarumma. The rebound of the Italian goalkeeper almost falls him to Raphinha, but Marquinhos could clear to time.
In total, Lewandowski tried four finish to door, one of them diverted and another blocked by a rival. In individual duels grieve won four in 14 attempts, whereas in the delivery neither was at all precise, completing only 12 of 21 passes (57 %). Regarding the 'dirty work', the Pole gave a hand recovering three balloons, in addition to clearing a pair of balloons in the area when the PSG arrinconó to the team before the rest. At the end, the '9' closed the Champions with 3 goals in 9 parties, two of them in eighth in front of the Naples.
