Ibrahimovic Antar PSG Menangkan Laga atas Olympiakos
Ibrahimovic Sends PSG Through with Late Win over Olympiakos
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Paris (B2B) - Diimbangi habis-habisan oleh tamunya Olympiakos pada laga kelima Grup C, Paris St Germain akhirnya lolos ke 16 Besar Liga Champions musim ini setelah menang 2-1 di markasnya di Parc des Princes pagi ini.
PSG unggul 1-0 selama 74 menit masa pertandingan lewat gol menit ketujuh dari bintang terpentingnya Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Pada penampilannya yang ke-100 di Liga Champions pagi ini, pemain timnas Swedia tersebut mencetak gol lewat sentuhan akhir yang simpel usai menerima umpan matang dari Gregory Van der Wiel, seperti dilansir Yahoo.
PSG harus kehilangan satu pemainnya pada awal babak kedua setelah Mario Verratti menerima kartu kuning kedua usai melakukan handsball di kotak penalti.
Olympiakos yang melancarkan 11 upaya menciptakan gol atau dua kali lebih banyak dari tuan rumah itu pun berusaha menyamakan kedudukan, namun baru berhasil 74 menit kemudian pada menit 81 lewat Kostas Manolas.
Manolas melepaskan tandukan untuk menyambut sebuah tendangan bebas, bola lalu membentur badan rekan setimnya Alejandro Dominguez dan kemudian kiper PSG Salvatore Sirigu yang memantulkan bola balik kembali kepada Manolas.
Bek Olympiakos ini pun tanpa ragu melepaskan tendangan yang tak bisa dihalau para pemain PSG. 1-1 untuk kedua tim.
Saat Olympiakos hampir yakin dapat memetik satu poin dalam laga tandangnya ini, PSG malah menciptakan gol tepat pada menit 90.
Pemain pengganti Adrien Rabiot mengirimkan umpan apik kepada Edinson Cavani yang dikonversinya menjadi gol dari tepi kotak penalti.
Kedudukan 2-1 tak bisa diubah lagi Olympiakos, dan PSG pun melenggang ke babak 16 Besar Liga Champions, sedangkan Olympiakos kian sulit melaju apalagi Benfica meraih tiga poin dalam pertandingan hari yang sama.
Paris - Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League as winners of Group C after beating Olympiakos 2-1 at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday.
PSG only needed a draw to secure top spot in the section and Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave them a dream start, opening the scoring inside seven minutes.
The sending-off of Marco Verratti early in the second half left the hosts down to 10 men, and Olympiakos profited from their man advantage to draw level through Kostas Manolas with nine minutes remaining.
However, Edinson Cavani´s 90th-minute strike handed PSG the win as they progress while Olympiakos are left to fight it out with Benfica for the second qualifying berth in the last round of games after the Portuguese outfit won 3-2 at Anderlecht.
This was a meeting of two in-form teams, with PSG defending a record of 34 games unbeaten since March and Olympiakos having lost only once this season.
However, that defeat was a 4-1 reverse at the hands of PSG when the clubs met in Piraeus in September, so the Greek champions knew the size of the task before them at the Parc des Princes.
The encounter also brought together several of the most exciting attacking talents in Europe just now, from Ibrahimovic and Cavani in the home ranks to Greek hotshot Kostas Mitroglou, scorer of 23 goals in 22 games this season.
But in an encounter in which both sides were in a position to seal qualification, it was Ibrahimovic and PSG who struck first.
It was a textbook PSG goal, with Gregory Van der Wiel surging forward down the right and crossing low for Ibrahimovic to score his 18th goal in his last 12 games for club and country from close range.
The combination of Van der Wiel and Ibrahimovic has been one of PSG´s most potent sources of goals this season, and Olympiakos coach Michel had actually started with two left-backs on the field in an attempt to stop the danger coming from the Dutchman.
Forced to open up after that, Olympiakos were rather enterprising, and Mitroglou nearly equalised within five minutes, Salvatore Sirigu turning his first-time shot from Joel Campbell´s cross around the post.
Mitroglou tested Sirigu on two more occasions in the first half, but Cavani gave a glimpse of his menace too with a strike that required Roberto in the Olympiakos goal to make a firm-handed save.
PSG were in control at the interval, but they were dealt a serious blow less than 30 seconds after the restart.
