PSG will meet OM in the round of 16 after their big victory against the Pays de Cassel

Duel of extremes for the last poster of the 16th finals of the Coupe de France. The Pays de Cassel, resident of Regional 1, received Paris Saint-Germain, leader of Ligue 1, at the Bollaert-Delelis stadium in Lens, sold out for the occasion. During this meeting, Christophe Galtier lined up his usual attacking trio in the absence of Lionel Messi with Kylian Mbappé, Neymar and Hugo Ekitike but the Parisian coach allowed himself to rotate behind. Danilo Pereira and Timothée Pembélé were particularly preferred to Marquinhos and Achraf Hakimi, left on the bench. Keylor Navas was also preferred to the usual holder in goal. For the first time in his career, Kylian Mbappé started an official meeting in the Parisian jersey with the captain’s armband.

While the match started at a slow pace, probably due to the freezing cold present in Lens, the amateurs from the Pays de Cassel stood up to the professionals from Paris Saint-Germain. Baptiste Leclerc, yet under pressure, even made his technique speak by succeeding several high quality ball protections in his last 30 meters to bring the ball out of his half of the field (6th and 8th). A few minutes later, Kylian Mbappé thought to open the scoring after a superb sequence against Romain Samson on a pass from Carlos Soler but the Parisian striker was logically signaled in an offside position and his achievement was canceled in stride (9th) . After a new period of observation during which Paris Saint-Germain remained quite cautious in attack, the Parisians put a deadly boost to their opponents at the half-hour mark.

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Kylian Mbappé in quintuplet mode!

At first, Timothée Pembélé centered back for Kylian Mbappé, left alone by the opposing defense, but the tricolor striker missed his recovery (25th). It was only a postponement. After a great breakthrough from Nuno Mendes on the left side, the Parisian number 7 was on the receiving end of the center of the Portuguese to propel the ball into the back of the net despite the deflection of Alexis Zmijak (29th, 1-0). Very inspired offensively for several minutes, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar achieved a superb double one-two and the Brazilian could play the defense before hitting hard at the near post to deceive Romain Samson (33rd, 2-0). Perfectly launched in depth by Danilo Pereira, behind the Casseloise defense, the triple scorer in the final of the last World Cup was not marked offside and could score his second goal of the evening thanks to a subtle lob (35th, 3-0).

While Romain Samson made a very good outing at the feet of Hugo Ekitike to avoid a new goal (36th) and Neymar, alone at the far post, did not fit his recovery after good work from Carlos Soler (39th), Kylian Mbappé, launched deep by Vitinha, took the ball and stung perfectly in front of Romain Samson (41st, 4-0). Returning from the locker room, Juan Bernat crossed back for Vitinha who feigned the strike and deceived the opposing goalkeeper but the latter was saved by Lucas Thoor on his line (53rd). In the process, on a new long opening, Romain Samson completely missed his exit and Kylian Mbappé took the opportunity to push the ball into the goals without difficulty and therefore offered himself a nice quadruple (56th, 5-0). The Parisian festival did not stop there, unfortunately for fans of the Pays de Cassel. Carlos Soler also participated in the celebration by being at the conclusion of a superb collective movement thanks to a heel after a service from Neymar which had eliminated the opposing goalkeeper (64th, 6-0).

The players of the Pays de Cassel began to lose more and more ball because of this slap received in front of their supporters. Despite this real ordeal, the fans finally managed to frame a shot for the first time in the game through Kevin Rudent but his shot was too crushed to worry Keylor Navas (69th). At the end of the game, Kylian Mbappé completed the victory of PSG by scoring the first quintuplet in the history of PSG (78th). Thanks to this clear and flawless victory, PSG will face Olympique de Marseille at the Vélodrome in the quarter-finals.