In the Intercontinental Cup final, Matvey Safonov achieved a tremendous feat by saving four penalty kicks during the shootout against Flamengo. A feat that, however, had already been accomplished at Paris Saint-Germain over 40 years ago, by Dominique Baratelli.

For eternity, Matvey Safonov will now be the goalkeeper who stopped four penalties in an Intercontinental Cup final, joining the legendary penalty shootout circle that includes Romanian Helmuth Duckadam, who literally saved all four of Barcelona's attempts in the 1986 Champions League final. The feat – a true rarity in the primary sense of the word – will be celebrated forever.

Other goalkeepers achieve it from time to time, for example, Ronwen Williams with South Africa against Cape Verde in the last Africa Cup of Nations. But while the performance is extremely rare, it is not unprecedented at PSG! Likely the first great goalkeeper in the club's history, Dominique Baratelli also stopped four penalty kicks, forty-three years earlier, precisely on May 11, 1982, during a French Cup semifinal.

Facing Tours (first division) on the neutral ground of Rennes as per the regulations of the time, Baratelli saved attempts by Steck, Marais, Devillechabrolle, and especially Onnis, the legendary all-time top scorer in French Division 1 history with his 299 goals. Unlike Safonov, Baratelli did not save all four kicks consecutively, as the second Tours taker beat him.

But by saving the first, and especially the next three, he sent his team to the final while his teammates had only scored... two, since Tours' goalkeeper Jean-Marc Desrousseaux also signed a legendary shootout by stopping three of PSG's five penalties! And just like in Doha last night, the Parisians had therefore won the shootout 2-1, with 3 successful kicks out of 10 attempts!

This shootout obviously does not carry the same weight as the one experienced this Wednesday in the Intercontinental Cup final, but it nonetheless sent PSG to the final against Saint-Etienne, which was also decided by penalties (2-2, 6-5 p.k.). This 1982 French Cup is the first trophy in the club's history, 12 years after its founding. The beginning of an incredible collection for the greatest French club in history, now on top of the world.

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