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Reims-PSG: Paris puts champagne in the fridge

2020-01-22T22:22:02.043Z


The Parisian club qualified this Wednesday in Reims (3-0) for the final of the League Cup, which it has not won since 2018. The 4


It is the first satisfaction of the season. Not yet the first objective since it will be necessary to wait for this enticing PSG-Lyon on April 4 at the Stade de France to possibly see Paris take down its first trophy in 2020. It is for the moment only punctual, faithful to the appointment and , if it is not a quality, it is at least a politeness and an elegance which befits its rank of king of France in matters of football.

He returned to the final, a year after this anomaly disguised in the form of elimination against Guingamp in the quarterfinals. Does this return to the podiums and Saint-Denis indicate a change? It seems at least that the PSG becomes serious again, perhaps even austere in the image of its performance in Reims that we will forget for its technical waste, the uncertain involvement of many and the limits of the versatility dear to Thomas Tuchel.

More ghostly than fantastic

Sarabia attacking, nobody knows where it comes from, but the coach tried it for a result close to nothing. Diallo rear left, it remains a bit baroque even if the Frenchman has his bearings in this corridor. There, he took it very little. Instructions? Careful? The game leaned to the right and as Draxler was playing it, it could not come from the German but from a collective will.

In short, in Champagne, the PSG will leave any memory, only victorious by the grace of two set kicks struck by Neymar, one for the stung head of Marquinhos, the other for Konan, barbaric enough for his people on this stroke. At the same time, he is not a captain, Konan. Kouassi will score his first goal with the pros, the same month as Aouchiche, who had worked against Linas in the Coupe de France.

Cinema, the PSG has not done too much, like the front four, more ghostly than fantastic, reserving their beautiful foucades for the hours of glory that lie ahead, at the Stade de France or before, in Dortmund . In any case, that's the idea. In the slow rise towards the 8th finals of the Champions League - the subject of the next month and the subject which fascinates us in the meantime -, nothing has clarified the result or called into question the achievements.

Draxler lacks influence in the animation of the corridor

The Verratti-Paredes pair defended with disconcerting naivety while Draxler lacked influence in the animation of the corridor, yet one of his favorite positions. Sacred enigma, three years after his arrival in winter, that this promising player at the time. He gave everything at the beginning, during the sublime PSG-Barcelona from the avant-garde (4-0), and since then only offers the spectacle of his fall.

It is cruel to him but he is the first victim of his shortcomings. He never misses PSG or Germany when he waxes the bench, the place where Tuchel will place him after the break. We should see him again in a week in Pau in the Coupe de France and it is possible that this time he will have the level.

Source: leparis

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