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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay at the Parc des Princes

Kvaratskhelia is PSG’s hyper-skilled traveller to expose Chelsea’s naivety

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia celebrates
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia slides after making it 5-2 with his second goal, as the tie slips away from Chelsea. Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/Reuters

Oh Filip. Welcome to the Premier League’s latest bonus content machine. Barbecuing wide‑eyed second‑choice European goalkeepers over a high heat on some foreign field.

It will be tempting to dwell on the moment Chelsea started losing this game. And it is a moment that captured the reasons why they were cuffed aside in Paris: a combination of managerial naivety, twinned with the razor edge of Paris Saint‑Germain’s front six, in particular the brilliantly moreish Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

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