Diego Costa found himself unmarked in the box when Baba Rahman’s cross was delivered from the left, and the striker forced a brilliant save from PSG goalkeeper Kevin Trapp, who got his hand to the ball to tip it onto the bar.
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Mikel Obi’s goal against PSG was his second Uefa Champions League goal and his sixth goal overall for Chelsea in 354 Chelsea games.
“Our aim was to come out here and get a goal and we’ve done that”, he said.
“I keep saying that Edi is a player who can score a lot of goals”, said PSG coach Laurent Blanc, who has consistently backed Cavani despite the doubts about his form.
Chris Waddle has defended Eden Hazard after the Chelsea forward’s subdued performance in a 2-1 loss at Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night.
The Blues were on course for a valuable draw ahead of the second leg, before Cavani steered home Angel di Maria’s pass.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic had earlier given Paris the lead from a deflected free-kick only for a rare John Obi Mikel goal on the stroke of halftime to bring Chelsea level.
“Perhaps we can regret not getting that third goal, but we are more disappointed with conceding that goal just before half-time”.
“The defeat is never a nice feeling but it’s a two-leg game and scoring away is always good”. That’s where our regrets lie, but we’re still in the running to qualify against a very strong team. That’s why I’m never happy with a loss, but it’s not a dramatic loss.
“It’s 50-50 still. Okay, we start again and if you take the emotion out a bit and analyse the game well, and our opponents were a very good and strong team, I say 50-50”.
“I don’t think Chelsea will change their approach for the second leg. Neither will we”.
“We know they’re a very good team”.
“The players did well, not just the four defenders”, Hiddink said.
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‘They have a nose for creating danger where you are weak. We had one or two chances to hurt them and they got a little bit unstable by the way we played.
