Paris Saint-Germain walked out of a hostile Marseille with a 2-1 win and three precious Ligue 1 points, but not with the avalanche of goals many had predicted. The scoreline was tight. The debate afterwards was anything but.
PSG have stumbled through the early weeks of their domestic campaign, and this trip was never going to be a simple reset. The atmosphere crackled, the margins stayed thin, and yet the visitors played with a control that rarely matched the pre-match narrative of a one-sided Parisian rout.
The expectation outside the dressing room? A hammering.
Inside it? Something very different, according to Vitinha.
Vitinha pushes back
In the mixed zone after the final whistle, the Portuguese midfielder did not bother hiding his irritation at the suggestion PSG had underwhelmed simply because the score stopped at 2-1.
“You say everyone expected a thrashing, but not us, I can assure you,” he said, quoted by MaxiFoot. “It is always difficult to play here.”
That line told its own story. For all the noise about PSG’s stuttering start, this was still a trip to one of France’s most charged arenas, against a Marseille side that, as Vitinha stressed, remains dangerous.
“Marseille have a good team and showed it today,” he pointed out.
The visitors, though, were rarely second-best. They dictated long spells, moved the ball with authority, and repeatedly carved out chances that should have killed the contest far earlier. The pressure built, the gaps opened, but the scoreboard never quite reflected the control PSG enjoyed.
Vitinha’s verdict was clear: the performance merited a far wider margin.
“I think we did what was necessary to take a multi-goal lead, but in the end, we win 2-1. We had plenty of chances, so the result isn’t even up for debate. This victory is thoroughly deserved.”
No talk of luck. No apology for the narrow win. Just a firm assertion that the display, not the scoreline, told the truth of the night.
From Le Classique to the Nations League
For Vitinha, the intensity does not ease with the club shirt back on the hanger. The international break now drags him straight into another demanding run, this time with Portugal in the UEFA Nations League.
- Selecao face Wales on September 24
- Norway on September 27
- Denmark await on October 1
- A second meeting with Norway on October 4
From a bruising rivalry in France to a packed international calendar, Vitinha moves on with a win in his pocket and a point made: PSG are not chasing headlines about thrashings. They are chasing control, results, and a season that finally starts to look like their own.
