Strasbourg 2-1 Paris Saint-Germain: Ligue 1 champions suffer back-to-back defeats

Paris Saint-Germain suffered their 2nd successive Ligue 1 defeat, aft going down 2-1 to Champions League-chasing Strasbourg.

Bradley Barcola’s 14th league extremity of the play proved world for the much-changed visitors astatine Stade de la Meinau, wherever the hosts held connected to ascent to 4th spot with 2 games remaining.

Liam Rosenior’s broadside – unbeaten successful 11 games – broke the deadlock successful the 20th infinitesimal erstwhile Mamadou Sarr’s header from an inswinging country deflected successful disconnected Lucas Hernandez.

Strasbourg doubled their pb successful first-half stoppage time, arsenic Felix Lemarechal brilliantly curled into the apical country beyond a helpless Matvey Safonov.

PSG replied wrong 44 seconds of the restart, with Barcola bursting distant down the near flank earlier beating Djordje Petrovic to halve the deficit.

The Ligue 1 champions pushed for a precocious equaliser. Goncalo Ramos headed wide from adjacent range, portion the guardant was besides brilliantly denied by Petrovic successful stoppage time, arsenic the hosts held connected for each 3 points.

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Data Debrief: Youthful PSG’s unbeaten distant streak stalls

Undoubtedly with an oculus connected Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final 2nd limb against Arsenal, Luis Enrique heavy rotated his starting XI.

With Warren Zaire-Emery, Senny Mayulu, Axel Tape and Ibrahim Mbaye each included, PSG became the archetypal squad successful the large 5 European leagues to commencement a league crippled with 4 players calved successful 2006 oregon later.

PSG person present suffered successive Ligue 1 defeats for the archetypal clip since April 2023, arsenic good arsenic their archetypal distant nonaccomplishment successful 40 league games.

Meanwhile, Strasbourg claimed their archetypal league triumph implicit PSG since December 2017, ending a tally of 13 games without success.

The Blue-and-Whites took their points tally for the play to 57 aft 32 games. Only erstwhile successful their past person they recorded a higher tally astatine this signifier of a Ligue 1 run (65 successful 1978-79).