Paris Saint-Germain left-back Nuno Mendes heads into Portugal’s decisive World Cup meeting with Colombia carrying one of the sharpest individual form-lines in Roberto Martinez’s squad.
The 23-year-old scored Portugal’s second goal in their 5-0 win over Uzbekistan on Tuesday, June 23, with PSG’s official report confirming that Mendes, Vitinha and Joao Neves all started while Goncalo Ramos remained on the bench. PSG noted Mendes played the full match, a detail that matters before another high-tempo Group K test.
Portugal’s victory against Uzbekistan Nuno Mendes.
Mendes Gives PSG Another Elite Tournament Signal
For PSG, this is more than a national-team subplot. Luis Enrique’s system relies on full-backs who can defend isolation, carry through pressure and still arrive with end product. Mendes is currently ticking every box.
Fox Sports also clipped the free-kick that made it 2-0 against Uzbekistan, underlining how quickly the PSG defender’s tournament moment travelled beyond Portugal’s camp. The strike was logged as a direct free-kick, another marker of his expanding attacking responsibility.
ReadPSG has already tracked how Ousmane Dembele’s World Cup surge strengthens the club’s wider summer narrative. Mendes now adds a different kind of evidence: not volume scoring, but authority from a position where PSG demand control, recovery pace and decisive final-third actions.
Colombia should offer a cleaner measure of that level. If Mendes backs up the Uzbekistan display, PSG will return from this tournament with another reminder that their left side remains one of the strongest assets in Europe.
