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PSG-Lyon: a shock with a European scent

2020-02-08T18:40:17.345Z


The last two tricolor European Cup representatives test themselves this Sunday (9 p.m.) at the Parc des Princes during the 24th day of


Fortunately, the classification does not count in this case. The same goes for PSG-OL as for PSG-OM, the smell of sulfur less: it's an expected meeting, a summit that counts, one of these rocking matches that tells us a little more than usually a bit of Paris or a piece of Lyon.

You have to see the implication these last seasons of the Gones at Groupama Stadium, the care they take to evoke PSG, to remember that this meeting remains apart. The sentence does not work with the team of Sylvinho, beaten 1-0 on the way out on a goal by Neymar, forfeited this Sunday. But, in any case, nothing worked with the ex-OL coach, replaced during the season by Rudi Garcia.

🎙 Coach Tuchel: “Dagba, Bernat, Diallo will be absent against Lyon. @ marquinhos_m5, @neymarjr and @ tsilva3 trained with us this morning but tomorrow's game is too early. »#PSGlive pic.twitter.com/mwzDWMf9aD

- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) February 8, 2020

Often, echoing and at home, PSG punishes its new rival, its ancestor in national domination - Lyon will have been the club of the 2000s, PSG that of the following decade - in proportions that show its desire for revenge as its incontestable superiority. The club of the capital remains on nine victories and two draws in the Park against OL, a territory hostile to the men of Jean-Michel Aulas, always vilified here.

The Champions League as a backdrop

"It's a great match in France," confirms Thomas Tuchel. It is always a challenge to fight against teams like Lyon. Rudi Garcia, for his part, leans on old springs, seeming to belong to a rhetoric of another age: "It is a match in the Champions League configuration. You have to be in warrior mode! "

The Cup with the big ears interferes in the backdrop of this story between the two major clubs of French football for twenty years, which will meet on April 4 for a final of the League Cup at the Stade de France. The last two French representatives in C1 experience it as a repetition without sticking the same meaning to it.

For Lyon, Paris is the closest to Juventus Turin, his next opponent in the round of 16, even if Neymar, preserved, will be absent while Cristiano Ronaldo will rub the ankles of a central defense often in panic in the RhĂ´ne. For the partners of Presnel Kimpembe, who owes us a revenge after his Nantes nonsense, the repetition is elsewhere, in the will to maintain an ogre attitude, airs of conquest and a consolidated confidence with this series of 16 victories and a zero on the domestic scene for three months.

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Thomas Tuchel seems over the moon: “I feel my team very strong, very focused to continue our series. We have made great efforts together since the beginning of 2020. We have always shown that we were hungry, each time with a team performance. "

This Sunday evening, Paris must continue to find the means to justify its hunger.

Source: leparis

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