PSG qualified for the semifinals of the women’s Champions League by easily beating the Swedes of BK Häcken (3-0) on Thursday, and will face Olymp in the last four European.
Like their male counterparts, the Parisiennes are still in contention this season to win the Champions League, the championship (2nd) and the Coupe de France (final against FC Fleury) treble.
With this victory, the Parisiennes remain 22 matches without defeat in all competitions. The last one dates back to November 23 against Bayern Munich in C1.
“Above all, we must not leave the route that we have traced, because again, concretely, we have not done anything. And we are reaching the important deadlines of the season”, explained the Parisian coach Jocelyn Preacher on Wednesday before the match at the press conference.
On Thursday evening at the Parc de Princes in front of 11,600 spectators including several hundred ultras, the players succeeded in one of these important encounters by dismissing BK Häcken quite simply, without forcing too much.
Last week in Sweden they won 2-1 thanks to goals from American defender Eva Gaetino, who had another good performance on Thursday, and striker Tabitha Chawinga.
It was again the Malawian who opened the scoring on Thursday after a great job of keeping the ball and projecting the French Marie-Antoinette Katoto (1-0, 27.).
Chawinga is unsustainable
Top scorer and passer in the Championship, Chawinga, PSG’s key player at the moment, scored his 4th Champions League goal and impressed with his pace and strikes, whether on the left or the right.
Very close to scoring with a header after the break (50th), Katoto, very well served by Sakina Karchaoui, perfectly placed a diving header to deceive the Swedish goalkeeper (3-0, 74th), under the eyes of the blue coach Hervé Renard .
Just before, the American midfielder Korbin Albert had doubled the lead with a superb attack in the left corner from 20 meters (2-0, 70.), her 2nd goal in C1 this season.
She seemed unfazed even though she was at the center of a controversy for sharing content of a homophobic and transphobic nature, notably provoking the indignation of Megan Rapinoe, a figure in the LGBTQ+ movement.
“I would like to sincerely apologize for my actions on social media. Liking and sharing posts that are offensive, insensitive and hurtful was immature and disrespectful, which was never my intention,” Korbin Albert wrote on his Instagram account right after the match .
As in 2016, 2020, 2022, the Parisiennes, the finalists in the 2015 and 2017 editions, will face the Lyonnaises, eight times with the title in this C1, in the semi-finals. Each time the Olympics qualified for the final.
Before this double confrontation, the two clubs have already met three times this season (2 Olympic wins, one draw) and could also meet in the D1 playoffs.
This season, the final will take place on May 25 in Bilbao.
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