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Ammon
20-04-2025
- Sport
- Ammon
PSG beat Le Havre to stay on course for unbeaten Ligue 1 season
Ammon News - PSG had already secured a fourth successive Ligue 1 title before this gamePARIS: Paris Saint-Germain stayed on course to complete the Ligue 1 season without losing a game as the Champions League semifinalists beat struggling Le Havre 2-1 on Doue and Goncalo Ramos scored the goals for PSG either side of half-time at the Parc des Princes, as coach Luis Enrique changed almost his entire starting line-up following the midweek European clash with Aston had already secured a fourth successive Ligue 1 title before this game, and their 10th consecutive league win leaves them on 77 points with five matches side has ever completed an entire French top-flight campaign unbeaten.'We knew this game was a potential banana skin for us after a Champions League match which sucked out all our energy and left us feeling tired,' Luis Enrique said.'All the ingredients were there for this to be a difficult game against a side who were in need of points.'Achraf Hakimi and Bradley Barcola were the only players to keep their place in the PSG line-up at kick-off, following the 3-2 defeat away to Aston Villa which saw them edge through to the last four of the Champions League and a tie against gave PSG the lead inside eight minutes, and Ramos made the most of his chance in the starting line-up by making it 2-0 shortly after half-time with his 15th goal this Soumare pulled one back for Le Havre, but the result leaves the Normandy side still in third-bottom spot, the relegation play-off the title race in France is already over, the fight for European qualification behind PSG is intense, with the next six teams separated by only six Monaco drew 0-0 at home to Strasbourg, who are three points behind them in fifth, on a blustery evening in the were looking for a seventh successive home win in Ligue 1, but leading scorer Mika Biereth had a goal disallowed for a tight offside call in first-half stoppage had most of the chances, but Strasbourg had the ball in the net late on too, only for Emanuel Emegha's effort from close range to also be ruled out for Rosenior's Strasbourg are now unbeaten in 10 games and remain hopeful of qualifying for the Champions League — a level the Alsace outfit have not played at since the 1979/80 European Cup.'I have a group of players who believe they can do it, and I believe they can do it as well,' said Englishman Rosenior, whose side are undefeated since early February.'Nobody said that this team would be able to do this at the start of the season.'Ten games unbeaten, and the players are disappointed not to win against Nice (a 2-2 draw last week) and now Monaco, which shows how far we have come in a short space of time.'Marseille have the chance to move back above Monaco into second with a win at home to doomed bottom side Montpellier De Zerbi's Marseille are under pressure on a run of five defeats in their last seven matches, a sequence which has left them at risk of missing out on a return to the Champions in fourth, go to derby rivals Saint-Etienne on Sunday looking to bounce back from their agonizing Europa League loss to Manchester United on and Nice, who are now sixth and seventh respectively, also play key games in the fight for Europe on top three qualify automatically for the Champions League, with fourth going into the preliminary place qualifies for the Europa League and sixth for the Conference League, although there will be an extra Europa League place available via the league should PSG beat Reims in the French Cup final next month. Arab News
BBC News
14-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'If anyone is going to turn it around - it is gong to be us'
Aston Villa forward Morgan Rogers says there is "massive belief" from team that they can turn their Champions League quarter-final tie Emery's side need to overturn a two-goal deficit at Villa Park on Tuesday night after succumbing to a 3-1 defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in the first is set to be a tough task for the Villains against the Ligue 1 leaders as they look to reach the semi-finals of the competition for the first time since they won the 1981-82 European Cup."There's massive belief in the dressing room. I know most people wrote us off before this tie, but in the first leg we gave a good account of ourselves," said Rogers, who scored in the first leg."Of course, there are things that we needed to improve on but we know [PSG] now. There is a task on our hands."Under the lights at home in the quarter-finals of this competition, there's not many better places to be."If anyone is going to turn it around, it is gong to be us. It's down to us and we are excited for that challenge."It's going to be difficult and I am not saying that we are going to do it, but we will definitely give it a shot and go out there to win."While boss Emery has a lot of European competition pedigree under his belt, it is has been Villa's first foray into the top-tier cup competition on the continent since 1983, but that has not overawed the players."We have tremendous belief in the group, our manager and the coaching staff," Rogers added. "We are here for a reason. We have taken on any battle that has come our way this season and we have won the game that we needed to be where we are."You could think we don't deserve to be here but that's not how we look at it. We fully deserve to here and we need to keep pushing."
