PSG v Marseille, x.com/PSG_inside January 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m

One day, French football officials got together and asked themselves the question, what is worse than their colleagues from Italy and Spain, who hold their Super Cup matches outside the country and earn a lot of money from it, in fact, for the spectacle that football should be. Of course, in this regard, French football reforms have not reached the “format of four” yet, but everything has its time.

At the beginning of 2026, wealthy people from Kuwait found some “extra” funds to invite the reigning champion and French Cup winner Paris Saint-Germain and last season’s runners-up, Marseille, and hand them 1 million euros each as bonuses for just participating in the decisive game of the battle for the trophy. And the rest had to be found out directly on the football field.

Meanwhile, the position of Luis Enrique’s team in the domestic arena is not that it has shaken in the current season, but simply that it has not become as unambiguous in terms of dominance as it was a year ago, when the fantastic “red and blue” collected all the trophies they could reach. And the reporting game also began in such a way that it began to seem that another cup would end up in the PSG museum quite easily.

However, Dembele’s quick goal, which was a direct result of a terrible defensive game from the “Provencals” near his own penalty, did not allow Enrique’s team to take a confident lead on the football field. Roberto De Zerbi’s team acted rather loosely in positional attacks and continued the defiant football of their coach in front of their own goal and did not give the Parisian defense the opportunity to maintain a quantitative attack front.

At the same time, according to the results of the first half, Marseille had perhaps even more chances than the opponents, but the implementation from Guiry, Vea and Greenwood left much to be desired. Because no one allowed them to punch at least from a close distance. In the second half of the meeting, the Parisians focused on the middle of the half, where the best moment could be considered Doue’s long-range shot in front of someone else’s free-kick to the left post, but as the game drew to a close, PSG began to noticeably lose momentum.

And for good reason. Because in the 74th minute, Chevalier, on the right flank of his possession, threw himself at the feet of Greenwood to stop the rush of the opponent, and still sent the attacker to the lawn, and he then scored from the penalty in the left corner, equalizing the score. In this type of football, where everything could change in an instant, the Parisians even made a second mistake near their own goal, goals Marseille relentlessly attacked through the flanks in the last minutes of regular time, and Traore’s cross from the left edge was cut into his own goal by Pacho.

There were three minutes left to play + stoppage time. Not much, and when Aubameyang already stuck his leg in the last seconds for the final shot from the right wing of the free kick, it seemed that Luis Enrique’s team would definitely not be able to save themselves. But Pacho this time helped his own team to fight back and even started a counterattack, which was completed by Vitigny’s throw on Barcol’s move to the left wing of the free-kick and a drop into an empty net for Ramoush. Who knows how to score decisive goals in the last minutes. Or saving, as in this case.

And it’s good that the penalty shootout started almost immediately. Although it is probably bad for Marcel. Because in this lottery, almost all, except for one, the shots were aimed at the right corner of the goal, and if Chevalier was twice lucky to parry the shots of O’Reilly and Traore, Ruglii could not show off the same.

PSG: Chevalier – Zaire-Emery (Maylu, 89), Marquinhos, Pacho, Mendes – Neves, Vitinha, Ruiz (Ramoush, 89) – Doue, Dembele, Kvaratzhelia (Barkola, 72).

Marseille: Rudy — Pawar, Balerdi, Medina — Weah (Murillo, 77), Kondogbia, Gojbjerg, Emerson — Greenwood (O’Reilly, 90+1), Guiry (Aubameyang, 67), Paixan (Traore, 68).

Warnings: Zaire-Emery – Weah, Heybjerg, Medina, Aubameyang