Saint-Germain qualified sweeps Basaksehir and leads his group

Brazilian international star Neymar led his team Paris Saint-Germain to sweep Turkish Basaksehir 5-1 on Wednesday in a match that the two teams resumed from the 14th minute after it was interrupted yesterday by racist statements by the fourth official to the assistant coach. of the Turkish team in the final round of Group H of the UEFA Champions League. .

St. Germain led the group with 12 points, with the advantage of the two head-to-head matches ahead of Leipzig.

The French team qualified yesterday after Leipzig’s victory over Manchester United of England (3-2), whose balance stalled at 9 points and deposited the competition.

The players of the two teams and the match officials wore jerseys with the phrase “No to racism”, the UEFA motto, during the warm-up period.

The capital team entered the game reassured by their classification, but played to win and led the group to avoid facing the adults in the next round.

It was the first opportunity for Mbabi, who was left alone with the Turkish goal, but hit the ball over the crossbar (18).

The French champion managed to open the scoring through Brazilian Neymar, who received a ball from Italian midfielder Marco Verratti on the outskirts of the region, passed the ball between the legs of defender Carlos Punk and struck out of reach of the Turkish goalkeeper in the corner. far (21).

Soon, Neymar added the second goal with a forward pass from Mbappé, and threw it into the net (38).

The Turkish team did not recover from the shock of the second goal until the referee awarded a penalty to Saint Germain after the goalkeeper prevented Neymar, so Mbappé launched successfully (42).

Mbappé did not score a goal in continental competition for almost a year, specifically against Galatasaray of Turkey on December 11, 2019, despite his team reaching the final last season and losing to Bayern Munich 0-1 .

Mbappé, at 21 years and 11 months, also became the youngest player to reach the 20-goal mark in the Champions League.

Neymar got a hat-trick after exchanging the ball with Argentine Ángel Di María to launch a powerful ball that the Turkish goalkeeper could not stop.
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The goal is Neymar’s sixth in five games this season in the tournament and equals Juventus forward Álvaro Morata’s top scorer and his 41st in 65 games in continental competition.

The Turkish team responded with a goal of honor through Muhammad Tobal (57), before receiving a fifth goal after a joint match between Neymar and Di Maria, who passed a ball into a Lembabé plate to follow it into the empty goal (62).

Mbappé missed the opportunity to score a hat-trick on his turn when he tried to hit the ball over the advancing goalkeeper, but the latter discerned his attempt (72).