Real Sociedad 1
Merinox 89
Paris Saint-Germain 2
Two superbly taken goals, a portrait of a player who stands above the rest, defeated Real Sociedad and carried PSG to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and one small step closer, perhaps, to the European Cup: 2-0 winners in the first leg, any hope of a comeback for Real Sociedad was ended early, by an exhibition from the man about to say au revoir, as he led the team that is still his, until May, to a 2-1 victory in Spain.
The history of football is full of comebacks Imanol Alguacil had reminded them, while Luis Enrique had warned his players that the wrong attitude could see his side "sunk misery", insisting: "with one goal, Real Sociedad will have us in trouble". That, though, was a big ask, they knew: if the performance in Paris had impressed, la Real had still been defeated, not least because of a familiar failing. The talk had been of needing an early goal but they came into this having failed to score in five of their last eight games and having won just one of nine.
Never mind the timing, Imanol insisted that he didn't care if the first came in the 10th minute or the sixtieth; besides, he insisted, it was more about conceding. That took just fifteen minutes and it was yet another manifestation of the smooth brutality of Mbappé, that unanswerable superiority.
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