Paris FC is eliminated from the Champions League after its heavy 4-0 defeat at home against Chelsea on Tuesday during the 6th and final day of the group stage.
For their first participation in C1, the Parisian players absolutely had to win. She also had to hope for a misstep from Häcken at Real Madrid, but the Swedes won 1-0, which would have eliminated the PFC anyway. Paris suffered the cold realism of the English champions by losing each time on the four real English chances.
Fran Kirby (10th) and Mia Fishel (37th) took advantage of two caviars from Serbian Jelena Cankovik to beat Paris’ Nigerian goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, with a header. Then Guro Raiten, coming into play instead of Cankovik, after an error by the Parisian defense (3-0, 74th) and Maren Mjelde after a corner (4-0, 80th), still with a header, considerably worsened the score .
The PFC players, however, struggled. First before the match and away from their pitch. On the Alma bridge, above the ring road, in the Paris metro, Gaëtane Thiney and some of her partners themselves promoted their confrontation against Chelsea.
They gave of themselves so that the women’s section of Paris FC beat its attendance record in its Charléty stadium, established during the reception of Real Madrid (10,693 spectators), already in the Champions League, on December 14. With a little too much success: the 13,274 spectators – a new record – were not yet all seated when Chelsea opened the scoring (10th). Also on the pitch where Julie Dufour, Mathilde Bourdieu and Clara Mateo, the Parisian attackers, created the greatest number of chances, cruelly lacking in efficiency in front of the cage of Zecira Musovic, the Swedish goalkeeper of Chelsea.
Its European dream past, the PFC will be able to concentrate on national competitions where it is still in the race. The Parisiennes, 3rd in D1, will host Lille on Sunday in the championship, then Lens on February 14 in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France.
