With its empty stadiums, its B plans to save what can be saved - first the lucrative TV rights - and its penknife blows in the rules (five changes allowed per match), football, at the time of Covid -19, is not really the same. The good news is that in this unprecedented season, PSG, too, have changed. Usually not very resistant to winter frosts, its European illusions are still very much alive in the middle of August, when our French teams are doing their best to emerge from its usual torpor.
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Paris "liberated"
While waiting for Lyon, heroic against Juventus and in search of a new blow against Manchester City on Saturday, Paris finds semi-finals which escaped him for twenty-five years. A first in the Qatari era, subscribed until then to disillusionment in the Champions League. As a click, the qualification against Dortmund before confinement had chased the ghosts of the “Remontada” of Barcelona and the fiasco against Manchester. Despite headwinds (not taken over from Ligue 1, injuries to its stars Mbappé, Verratti) and a courageous Atalanta team, PSG, around a boss-sized Neymar, was able to force the decision and his fate with the character that has been so lacking in the past. Aware of the long-awaited change, its president Nasser Al Khelaifi summed up on RMC on Wednesday evening: "We need that to change mentalities in the club and something that was blocking us until then". What if, for its 50th anniversary, this “liberated” Paris offered itself the most beautiful birthday present? The dream is more than ever allowed.
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