Paris Saint-Germain has suspended women’s coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle after accusations of inappropriate behavior toward players on his team came to light.

Players were interviewed by the club Tuesday after a complaint was made, according to the Daily Telegraph.

“These facts and comments, if confirmed, would be incompatible with the sporting and human values of Paris Saint-Germain,” PSG said in a statement to the Telegraph. “Paris Saint-Germain takes the situation very seriously and intends to shed full light on the facts and comments reported.”

One source said that the coach’s behavior toward players and his language was brought to light several months ago with no action taken, the Telegraph reported.

PSG has yet to complete its season, with a game against Lyon on Sunday key to their quest to defend their league title. PSG currently sits five points back of first-place Lyon in Division 1 Féminine.

The club has dealt with inner turmoil throughout the season.

Last November, Aminata Diallo and Kheira Hamraoui were assaulted by masked men while driving home from a team event. The investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

Then, in April, Hamroui was involved in an altercation with forward Sandy Baltimore at practice.

Paris Saint-Germain is weathering a storm off the pitch amid a Champions League semifinal battle with archrival Lyon.

A dispute broke out during a tactical session at PSG’s training ground ahead of Sunday’s first-leg semifinal contest, which the team lost 3-2.

According to The Athletic’s Charlotte Harpur, the altercation occurred after a cross was played into midfielder Kheira Hamraoui and forward Sandy Baltimore. Communication broke down between the duo, resulting in a missed goal opportunity.

Hamraoui reportedly mumbled to herself, with Baltimore telling her to stop. Hamraoui then insulted her teammate. The two exchanged heated words and had to be separated.

The training was cut short, per The Athletic, and players and staff debriefed about the incident, but Hamraoui was not present. The star midfielder decided not to travel with the team and ruled herself out of the Champions League matchup with Lyon.

This isn’t the first time Hamraoui was involved in a controversy.

In November, Aminata Diallo and Hamraoui were assaulted by two masked men while driving home from a team dinner. Hamraoui was attacked with a metal bar, suffering bruises to her shins and legs. Diallo was detained in connection with the assault on her teammate, but she was later released without charges. The investigation is ongoing.

The incident and resulting investigation have strained PSG’s locker-room morale, with the latest incident between Hamroui and Baltimore compounding the club tensions.

“We can hate each other outside but on the field, we have to manage to win,” PSG captain Grace Geyoro told French newspaper L’Equipe. “I tried to ensure that everyone could feel good on the pitch.”

The beleaguered French club will aim to regroup in time for the second leg of the Champions League semifinal, with PSG hosting Lyon on Saturday.

Paris Saint-Germain clinched its place in the UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinals. Ramona Bachmann pulled PSG level with Bayern Munich in the 112th minute to put the club up 4-3 on aggregate in the quarterfinal.

Wednesday’s 2-2 draw with Bayern was enough for PSG to advance after securing a 2-1 win in the teams’ first-leg matchup.

Bachmann received a lofted cross into the box before trapping the ball and turning on her defender to fire the shot past Bayern’s keeper with 10 minutes left to play.

PSG played in front of a club record 27,262 as the home side battled against a beleaguered Bayern team that only listed four substitutes due to a series of positive COVID-19 tests throughout the squad.

The Champions League quarterfinals continue Thursday, with Arsenal taking on Wolfsburg after an opening leg 1-1 draw. Juventus and Lyon will also face-off, with Lyon needing a dominant performance after falling to Juventus 2-1 in the first leg.

Thursday’s winners will join Barcelona and PSG in the Champions League semifinals.

Paris Saint-Germain took the first leg of its Women’s Champion League quarterfinal against Bayern Munich with a 2-1 win on Tuesday.

Marie-Antoinette Katoto netted the brace to put PSG ahead of Bayern. She notched her first goal in the 19th minute.

She would score again in the 71st minute, heading in a corner kick from Sandy Baltimore.

Katoto has been unstoppable over her last three UWCL games, scoring four times on her last seven shots, according to DAZN Football.

Klara Bühl got one back for Bayern in the 83rd minute, but her team was unable to notch a second in the loss.

The two teams will meet again on March 30 in the second leg of their quarterfinal matchup.

Barcelona and Real Madrid also face off Tuesday in the first leg of the quarterfinals. On Wednesday, Juventus will take on Olympique Lyonnais, while Arsenal will go up against Wolfsburg.

The second legs of the quarterfinals will take place next week.

  • Wednesday, March 30:
    • Barcelona vs. Real Madrid
    • Paris Saint-Germain vs. Bayern Munich
  • Thursday, March 31:
    • Wolfsburg vs. Arsenal
    • Olympique Lyonnais vs. Juventus

While the semifinal matchups are still to be determined, the first leg is scheduled to take place on April 23 and the second leg on April 30. The championship final will take place on May 21.

Aminata Diallo is speaking out after being released from police custody.

The Paris Saint-Germain player was questioned by authorities as a part of an investigation into an attack against teammate Kheira Hamraoui. Diallo was released from custody after 36 hours without charges.

Reports indicate that the incident in question occurred following a team dinner. Diallo and Hamroui were stopped by two masked men on the drive home before the attacker pulled Diallo and Hamroui from Diallo’s car. One man restrained Diallo while the other attacked Hamroui, leaving her with bruises and cuts, but no broken bones.

In a statement through her lawyers, Diallo says she “hopes that judicial authorities conclude their investigation quickly and is sure that this will end up showing her complete and total innocence.”

Diallo’s lawyer also dismissed rumors of a rivalry between Diallo and Hamraoui, stating, “This theory does not reflect at all the reality of their relationship.”

The French soccer star’s lawyer commented on the attention the story is getting, saying media speculation “has already condemned her, without justification,” adding that Diallo “will not hesitate to launch legal action if necessary against any defamation.”

PSG will take the field on Sunday, facing off against league rival Lyon for the top of the table.

Paris-Saint Germain defeated the Chicago Red Stars 1-0 on Saturday, taking third in the inaugural Women’s Cup tournament.

The Red Stars started off on the front, deploying a high press and stifling any PSG momentum. PSG, for their part, looked content to sit back and defend, picking their moments to push forward.

The scoreless stalemate ended in the 35th minute when Marie-Antoinette Katoto chested down a lofted ball in the box before rifling a low shot past Chicago’s keeper. Katoto’s clinical finish put PSG up 1-0 just before halftime.

A series of late-game substitutions from the Red Stars injected the game with a renewed offensive energy. Still, PSG was able to hold off Chicago until the final whistle.

Saturday’s victory marks PSG’s first win of the pre-season.

France’s Division 1 Féminine has a new champion.

Paris Saint-Germain took home the league’s trophy Friday, squashing Lyon’s 14-year stint at the top of the table. PSG secured the division title with a 3-0 win over Dijon, a fitting end to a historic season.

The two teams have a storied past, with PSG finishing second to Lyon in the Division 1 Féminine title race eight times. Back in April, PSG ended another of Lyon’s winning streaks, beating the club in the Women’s Champions League quarterfinal. PSG’s stunning upset denied Lyon its sixth consecutive Champion’s League trophy.

PSG’s 2020-2021 championship is the first-ever Division 1 Féminine title for the club.

After a 1-1 draw in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal, PSG and Barcelona both knew it all came down to Sunday’s match-up.

With a spot in the final on the line, both teams came out swinging.

It was Barcelona who struck first, though, with Lieke Martens putting away a gorgeous curled ball in the 8th minute to put her team up 1-0.

The Dutch winger added her name to the scoresheet again in the 31st minute, tapping in a well-placed cross from teammate Caroline Graham Hansen.

Less than five minutes later, PSG responded with a goal of their own. Marie-Antoinette Katoto punched in a loose ball off a PSG corner, cutting Barcelona’s lead in half.

PSG stayed competitive in the second half but failed to create any meaningful goalscoring opportunities to even the score with Barcelona.

With PSG at bay, Barcelona hung on to their narrow 2-1 lead, securing their place in the Champions League Final.

Barcelona will face off against Chelsea for the title on May 16.

MATCH INFO: Paris Saint-Germain vs Barcelona (Leg 1 of 2), Stade Municipal Georges Lefèvre, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Kickoff: April 25th, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. EST

Paris Saint-Germain will host Barcelona for the first leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final. Here’s how both teams got here.

PSG were drawn against Olympique Lyonnais in the quarter finals, who are widely considered the best team in the world. They’ve won seven Champions League titles and the last five in a row, becoming the team to beat in the competition. 

In the first leg, Lyon did what they do best: they won. A single penalty from Wendie Renard gave them the advantage going into the second leg, which looked to be headed in a similar direction after Catarina Macario scored in the 4th minute to give Lyon a two-goal aggregate advantage. 

However, PSG were able to answer back a mere 20 minutes later, with a fantastic goal from midfielder  Grace Geyoro, her first of the 202/21 Champions League campaign. 

After halftime, PSG continued to push in an effort to find a goal that would put them through to the next round on away goals. Lyon were quite sloppy in possession with misplaced passes, and it seemed like it’d only be a matter of time before PSG scored another. The needed goal came in the 61st minute, with Renard scoring an own goal in an attempt to cut off PSG’s Kadidiatou Diani’s cross into the box.

The goal gave Paris Saint-Germain the 2-1 lead, and they held on until the final whistle. With the final score being 2-2 on aggregate, the Parisians advanced on away goals to the semi-finals, ending Lyon’s five-year streak as European champions.

PSG’s opponents in the semi-finals, Barcelona, knocked out English powerhouse Manchester City with a final score of 4-2 on aggregate, in what may have been the biggest surprise of the quarter finals. 

Barcelona comfortably beat Man City 3-0 in the first leg, with the first goal coming off a smart finish from Asisat Oshoala in the 35th minute. Going into half-time at 1-0, the match was far from over, but City struggled to contain Oshoala, and the striker won a penalty early in the second half that teammate Mariona Caldentey converted. 

Jennifer Hermoso scored Barca’s third after a shot hit the post, giving Man City the daunting task of needing to score at least four goals in the second leg in Manchester.

Things started off well for City in the second leg, with Janine Beckie scoring within the first twenty minutes. 

However, Oshoala once again continuously caused the home-side problems. She scored in the 59th minute, easing any pressure Barca was facing. 

Sam Mewis scored a penalty about ten minutes later, but of course, it wasn’t enough for the English side to qualify.

Both Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona faced tough opponents in the quarters, and both teams showed exactly why they deserve to be in the competition. 

Each club has made it to the final of the UWCL before, but have failed to get their hands on the coveted trophy. Now they have a chance to make the leap.

For PSG, they’ve already dispatched their domestic rivals. But losing in the semis would sour that achievement. For Barcelona, meanwhile, now is their chance to prove that they belong in the discussion of Europe’s best club. Fireworks should be expected.

It’s the end of an era for Olympique Lyonnais.

The seven-time champion was 31 games unbeaten in the Champions League until Sunday, when Paris Saint-Germain turned the tables and won the return leg of the semifinal 2-1. 

It was the home leg for Lyon as they entered up 1-0 from Paris. After just four minutes, American striker Catarina Macario put them ahead further with the first goal of the game. 

But PSG didn’t go quietly. 

Midfielder Grace Geyoro struck midway through the first half to begin the comeback for Les Feminines. 

The winner came from an own-goal by central defender Wendie Renard, who was the lone goal for Lyon in Paris. 

With the tie levelled at 2-2, PSG edged ahead on away goals to take the win. 

“I don’t think we realise what we’ve done yet. We played a great game collectively from start to finish,” Geyoro said. “We knew we had to come here and score two goals. And we did that. We never gave up.”

PSG, who have never won the women’s Champions League, will face Barcelona for a place in the final starting Sunday, April 25. Bayern Munich will play Chelsea in the other semifinal.