Key occasions
80 min: Nothing comes of the nook.
79 min: Mayulu wedges a cross down the appropriate to launch Hakimi into acres. Hakimi seems for Ramos within the center, however is denied by Militao’s prolonged leg, which diverts out for a nook. Earlier than it may be taken, Lee comes on for Mendes.
78 min: The sport restarts.
76 min: Time for a drinks break. “We boiled up snow and ice to make sizzling sturdy Bovril … how that beefy style cheered us.”
75 min: Valverde lotions a shot in the direction of the highest proper. It’s heading in, however bravely blocked by Beraldo. That was actually travelling. The ball’s deflected out for a nook, which is labored again to Fran Garcia, whose drive by way of a crowded field bounces harmlessly by way of to Donnarumma.
73 min: Carvajal, not but on top of things after his lengthy, lengthy break, picks up a fast reserving for by accident high-kicking Barcola.
72 min: Hakimi slips Ramos into the Actual field down the inside-right channel. Ramos shanks a shot broad below stress from Militao. PSG attempting to find this fourth purpose.
71 min: To appreciative cheers, Carvajal returns to the Real Madrid workforce for the primary time since struggling an ACL harm final October. He replaces Gonzalo Garcia.
70 min: Barcola chases an extended cross down the left flank and breaks into the field. However earlier than he can shoot, he’s appropriately flagged for dealing with mid-dribble. PSG instantly displaying in assault once more, although.
69 min: … Ramos has choices to launch a team-mate both aspect, however blooters a shot into the closest defender as a substitute. An enormous likelihood to place paid to Actual’s admittedly small-scale revival as soon as and for all.
68 min: Actual are having fun with their greatest spell of the sport. They press PSG again and win a few corners. The second results in some head tennis, from which PSG break upfield, and …
66 min: PSG reply by burning by way of one other two subs, eradicating Ruiz and Doue and sending on Zaire-Emery and Mayulu.
65 min: Actual make a triple change, changing Bellingham, Vinicius Jr and Asencio with Militao, Modric and Diaz.
64 min: Bellingham barrels down the center, house opening up in entrance of him. He shoots. Beraldo blocks. Mbappe wished the cross, and isn’t glad. However Actual recycle possession and win a nook out on he left. The set piece results in Mbappe swinging in from the left. Donnarumma punches clear. That is higher from Actual, even when the bar is low.
62 min: Guler goes over within the PSG field when attempting – and failing – to defend the ball from Mendes. It’s sort out and a determined declare. Play is waved on.
61 min: To date, PSG have made 467 passes to Actual Madrid’s 168. You must marvel how typically Actual have been on the tip of a lop-sided stat like that.
59 min: Actual load the field however waste the free kick.
58 min: Vinicius Jr tries to get one thing going for Actual, first taking pictures from a good angle on the left – blocked – then drawing a free kick from Mendes down the identical flank. Earlier than the free kick may be taken, Kvaratskhelia and Dembele are changed by Ramos and Barcola.
57 min: Kvaratskhelia cuts in from the left and curls a shot broad of the right-hand publish. Then Hakimi probes down the appropriate however his low cross is snaffled by Courtois. If there’s to be a fourth purpose on this recreation, proper now it’s PSG who look extra prone to notch it.
56 min: Bellingham seems for Gonzalo Garcia down the appropriate however falls backwards whereas making the cross, and the ball is sprayed into the stand. One purpose might feasibly alter the temper and alter the momentum, however Actual don’t seem like scoring it.
55 min: The tempo drops. PSG stroke the ball hither and yon. Actual, their spirit damaged, don’t do a lot in the way in which of chasing down.
53 min: Valverde rolls a cross throughout the face of the PSG field from the appropriate. Mbappe meets it first time, lashing wildly over the bar. You’d give fairly a couple of shiny centimes for his ideas proper now.
52 min: Tchouameni lets the ball run below his foot and practically lets Doue by way of on purpose. He’s lucky Doue isn’t on the entrance foot. This has been an totally shambolic defensive show by Actual.
51 min: Tchouameni clips Neves on the ankle. He’s already been booked, so needs to observe himself. Only a foul. In actual fact, he’s injured himself whereas difficult so requires some therapy. After a quick stoppage, he’s good to proceed.
50 min: To be honest, the semi-automated replay exhibits Dembele was pretty clearly off. The Actual defence working in tandem for as soon as.
48 min: Kvaratskhelia sends Dembele free down the left. Dembele passes infield for Doue, who enters the field and slots into the underside left. Thankfully for Actual, there was an offside within the build-up. It should have been shut, as a result of Dembele regarded on to the bare eye.
47 min: Valverde tries to get one thing going for Actual down the appropriate, however loses management, and Kvaratskhelia steals away with the ball. His crossfield cross practically releases Doue down the appropriate. Not this time. However then …
PSG get the second half began. No half-time adjustments.
Half-time leisure. Given what’s simply occurred, it’s value studying this once more.
HALF TIME: PSG 3-0 Actual Madrid
… however there’s no time for the nook to be taken. Candy, blessed aid for Actual, who’ve been comprehensively labored over by this sensational PSG aspect. It’s no exaggeration to recommend it might simply be 6-0. It wouldn’t flatter PSG both. They’ve bought one foot and 4 toes within the last.
45 min +4: Dembele strides down the left and, nearly on the touchline, makes an attempt to lob the out-of-position Courtois. His effort is dropping into the top-left nook, and Courtois is pressured to tip over the bar. He whacks his hip on the upright in making the save.
45 min +3: Guler tries to launch Mbappe into the field with a cross down the appropriate channel, however Donnarumma is shortly off his line to smother.
45 min +2: The nook’s labored to the opposite flank. Mendes smacks a drive goalwards from a good angle on the left. Courtois parries. Actual attempt to counter, however Neves doesn’t permit Guler to interrupt upfield. He’s booked for his unlawful tug.
45 min +1: Hakimi threatens to burst down the appropriate, forcing Fran Garcia to toe-poke the ball out for a nook. Garcia hangs his head. He’s had little help.
45 min: There might be three further first-half minutes.
44 min: PSG proceed to stroke the ball round imperiously. “If Enzo Maresca is watching this, he may need to take into consideration self-deporting his Chelsea workforce a while earlier than subsequent Sunday,” suggests Justin Kavanagh.
42 min: Courtois comes out of his field and slices a clearance straight to Doue. The keeper breathes once more as Doue fails to regulate the ball. Had he managed to take action, he’d have dispatched it into the empty web from 40 yards.
40 min: Once more, it ought to be 4. Kvaratskhelia glides into the Actual field from the left, repositions the ball together with his studs to confuse Asencio, and drags a low drive broad of the right-hand publish. Courtois was rooted to the spot, so had that been on course … effectively.
39 min: Mbappe goes over within the PSG field, claiming a penalty, however the referee is sort of appropriately not , Neves having whipped the ball cleanly off his toe. Nearly everybody concerned with Actual, gamers, workers and coach, are frowning actual arduous proper now.
37 min: Kvaratskhelia steals the ball off Mbappe, then instantly nutmegs Guler earlier than racing off down the left. Actual are gentle on the again, and Kvaratskhelia has choices. However Bellingham races again to execute a wonderfully judged last-ditch sort out from behind. 4-nil regarded on the playing cards there.
36 min: PSG stroke it across the again in relaxed type. Then the ball’s pinged down the appropriate for Doue. Courtois is shortly as much as the sting of his field to assert. Simply as effectively.
34 min: Play restarts. “It looks like we’re on the level with Ousmane Dembélé that the Ballon d’Or vote looks like a formality,” observes Kári Tulinius. “Even final fall he appeared extra like a enjoyable participant however wasted expertise, and now he’s on the cusp of being an all-time nice. Simply give him the gong already.”
33 min: Xabi Alonso is effectively inside his rights to provide it to his gamers straight. However he stays calm, issuing tactical recommendation in a measured method. “Assuming it stays 3-0 at half-time,” begins Peter Oh, “he can rally his troops by invoking Istanbul.” The best way PSG are piling into Actual, that’s fairly the caveat.
32 min: Time for a drinks break. “Good buddies, the roaring fireplace … the proper time for a sizzling Dr Pepper! Scrumptious and really easy to organize. Simply warmth Dr Pepper in a saucepan till it steams.”
