Rock-solid Nice has become a punching bag: PSG stroll to the cup semi-finals

During the first half-season, Nice were an example of granite defense for all European teams. There were many games without conceding a goal, a special trophy could have been made for the team that managed to shake the red and black net from the Cote d'Azur. And then something went wrong...

Did something go wrong in the Nice team or did the rivals simply read it and "break through", the Eagles just don't look like themselves anymore. Anyone who arrives gives them a couple of slaps in the face, they are falling in the championship table, and tonight they finished the competition in the French Cup.

PSG were the favorite before the match and confirmed that title with a routine victory of 3-1. In the next round, the Saints will play with Rennes, while the other semi-final pair consists of Lyon and Valenciennes.

Although Kylian Mbappe solemnly informed everyone that his term in Paris Saint-Germain will end in the summer, and coach Luis Enrique began to test the team without the best player in the squad, the French striker deserves praise for still playing all games with full dedication because he wants to say goodbye to the City of Light with a new set of trophies. At least domestic ones.

The net of Nice's once-granite defense shook after 14 minutes of play. Masterful lob double pass played by Mbappe and Ruiz, and the first star of the Saints sent the ball through the legs of the goalkeeper.

A cheerful Fabian Ruiz doubled PSG's advantage in the 33rd minute, he scored a goal assisted by Dembele, and everything was topped off by a cardinal and comical mistake by the Nice goalkeeper Bulka, who was hit in the head by the ball after an unsuccessful dribble, so he lost the idea of where it was. Ruiz was in the right place to put the ball into the net.

Hope for the red and blacks was restored by the inexorable Laborde, but in the continuation of the game, Beraldo restored PSG's two-goal advantage, for a peaceful finish, so that the spectators would not get stressed.

The Parisians did not stop there, they continued to attack, and the closest they got to the fourth goal was in the 64th minute, when Korean Kang Lee hit the crossbar.

COUPE DE FRANCE

Quarterfinals

February 27th

Lyon - Strasbourg 0-0

Lyon advance on penalties 4-3

February 28th

Rouen - Valenciennes 1-1 (0-1)

/Loppy 90+1 - Oyewusi 26/

Valenciennes advance on penalties 4-2

February 29th

Le Puy-en-Valey - Rennes 1-3 (0-1)

/Adinany 61 - Theate 9, Bourigeaud 49 pen, 82/

Wednesday, March 13th

PSG - Nice 3-1 (2-1)

/Mbappe 14, Ruiz 33, Beraldo 60 - Laborde 38/