Hangul shirts are star of the day as PSG draw 2-2 with Reims

Football

Published: 11 Mar. 2024, 08:43 Updated: 11 Mar. 2024, 17:43

Hangul shirts are star of the day as PSG draw 2-2 with Reims

Paris Saint-Germain's Goncalo Ramos celebrates scoring against Reims in Paris on Sunday with Lee Kang-in wearing a hangul shirt visible next to him. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

It was a bad day to be late to Parc des Princes in Paris on Sunday, with three of the four goals in Paris Saint-Germain’s 2-2 draw with Reims scored within the first 19 minutes.

The visitors struck first in Paris, Marshall Munetsi putting the mid-table club up on the league leaders in the seventh minute after the PSG defense gave up the ball in their own box.

Reims were also responsible for the second goal, although in far less favorable circumstances, as PSG’s Goncalo Ramos turned a corner into the back of the net via a deflection off Reims defender Yunis Abdelhamid.

That goal — in the 17th minute — was followed moments later by an actual Ramos goal, a dangerous cross from Lee Kang-in fumbled by the defenders and picked up by the Portuguese international for his second in three minutes — and this one was actually awarded to him.

Paris Saint-Germain's Lee Kang-in in action during a Ligue 1 match against Reims in Paris on Sunday. [EPA/YONHAP]

Things quietened down after that flurry, and late-comers to the match still got to see Oumar Diakite tie things up seconds before the break and then a whole lot of nothing in the second half as a rush of substitutions — including the addition of Kylian Mbappe — failed to break the deadlock.

But one thing that was worth seeing at Parc des Princes was the shirts that PSG played in.

To celebrate the opening of a new PSG store in Seoul this week, the club donned kits bearing their names in hangul for Sunday’s Ligue 1 game. Those same shirts, with the hangul name and a floral motif, are also on sale at the store in Seoul.

PSG shirts are displayed at the French club's new Seoul store in Gangnam, southern Seoul on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Back in Paris, PSG face a busy week as they host Nice in the quarterfinals of the French Cup on Wednesday before heading south to Montpellier for a Ligue 1 game on Sunday. PSG currently sit 10 points clear at the top of the Ligue 1 table and are still in action in both the French Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

BY JIM BULLEY [jim.bulley@joongang.co.kr]