After the emotions of the Champions League, Paris found the championship with a match this Sunday against Rodez again at Charlety Stadium. For Rodez, this match comes after the cold shower suffered at home last weekend against Juvisy (10-0 defeat) and the need to find the thread even if Paris seemed inevitably an opponent unsuitable to chain on a good result.

On the Paris side, Shirley Cruz, Veronica Boquete and Katarzyna Kiedrzynek started on the bench at the beginning of the match while Laura Georges was left at rest. In the field, Cristiane had the responsibility to animate the offensive game Parisian positioned in the axis behind Marie-Antoinette Katoto which began in peak. A rotation of the Parisian squad became a habit for Patrice Lair with the desire to preserve as much as possible his female players.

The first attempt of the match is for Paris with a shot by Ouleymata Sarr on the right of the surface, well served by Cristiane but Julie Niphon pushes perfectly the first shot of PSG. Five minutes later, it is Rodez who is close to open the score by Marine de Sousa. The Ruthenian striker escapes the Parisian defense and runs to the goal but her cross shot right side of the area is diverted by Loes Geurts, aligned in the goals of PSG.

Paris takes advantage of his (many) kicks arrested
An action that will be the best opportunity of the RAF in this first period and that may be some regrets. In the 10th minute, the PSG found the bar by Irene Paredes following a free-kick Cristiane 25 meters right side. The set kicks that will ensue in the camp of Rodez, several free-kicks on the right side of the surface but also corners, always on the right side by which the Parisian offensives often spend the first period. After twenty minutes of play, we feel Cristiane annoyed, with a Parisian game that can not find the right tempo.

The Brazilian number 10 will finally manage to slip the right pass but on corner in the 23rd minute. A right-side corner kick, and Marie-Antoinette Katoto who springs within six meters to place a uncrossed head that ends at the bottom of the nets. Subsequently, it is again a set of kicks that give favorable Parisian situations until the 39th minute when Onema Grace Geyoro finds Marie-Antoinette Katoto in the back of the defense, a bright pass in depth but that escapes Katoto, having misjudged the ball that came in his back.

Three minutes later, we find Geyoro at the start of a new action in Paris, with Sarr receiving a ball from his teammate before sending a very good center right side. At the far post, Katoto takes the ball in the head and everyone believes in the goal, but the ball goes to the right of Rodez's net. Meanwhile, Cathy Couturier, back in Paris against her former club, places a shot at 20 meters easily captured by Loes Geurts.

Goals and strokes
At the break, Patrice Lair brings Shirley Cruz in place of Sarah Palacin. The Costa Rican player came to bring additional dynamism to the Parisian actions, with its percussion and its ability to get out of the opposite mark against a team Rodez very rough.

It is also Shirley Cruz who delivers the decisive pass on the second goal in Paris in the 52nd minute. She finds Cristiane in the back of the defense on the left of the surface, the Brazilian striker then goes to deceive Julie Niphon a cross shot that ends on the left of the goal of the RAF. 2-0 and a second half where both teams are gradually rising in aggression, with a match where contacts are increasing and the referee to regularly whistle for free kicks, mainly in favor of PSG.

It is on one of these free-kicks that the PSG will find again the opening. Taken to the right of the surface, Cristiane's center found Erika's header within six meters, marking again in favor of PSG. In an increasingly choppy match, PSG finally manages to develop a beautiful game sequence in the 30-yard opponents with the maneuver Shirley Cruz who combines in the first place with Lina Boussaha in the axis before entering the surface in support with Cristiane and then place a shot flush with the left post (86th).

The last action of the match is for Paris but Cristiane will not this time find the way to the frame. Regardless, Paris wins its third match in one week and remains in contact in the lead of the championship with satisfaction for the Paris coach to be the only team not to have conceded goals since the start of the championship. Enough to trust before the continuation and reception of Montpellier in two weeks in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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