Paris Saint-Germain beat Nice 3-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday evening. The hosts took two goals in the first half and added a third late on. Nice pulled one back in stoppage time but the result was never really in doubt.
By then the pattern was already set. Sinayoko converted a penalty in the twenty-first minute after Ndayishimiye had picked up a yellow card just three minutes earlier. Chergui doubled the advantage before half-time, and here's the thing — the visitors kept pushing forward even when two clear chances had gone begging.
Nice created more from wide areas with twenty-two crosses against PSG's eight. The visitors had possession advantage too, fifty-four percent compared to forty-six. But big chances created tells the real story: five for the hosts, none for the away side. Shots on target were level at four each, yet only two found the net.
Substitutions came thick and fast once the game was running. Ngoumou and Simon were replaced together at sixty-three minutes, followed by Pagis and Witsel at seventy-three. The coaching staff switched things around frequently, bringing on Clauss, Bard, Kebbal and Otavio for the hosts in the final quarter.
Marchetti's goal in the eighty-ninth minute gave Nice some satisfaction but came too late. The hosts sit eleventh with forty-four points from thirty-four games, while Nice drop to sixteenth on thirty-two. Both sides had drawn their previous two matches before this fixture.
