Revived by a 17 year old kid! Led 3-0, PSG avoided a complete unimportant humiliation thanks to its young defender trained at the club and author of two goals from the head on corner, this Saturday afternoon. Two goals that allowed him to pick up Amiens and then exceed him thanks to a realization by Mauro Icardi, who this time did it on purpose (in Nantes, he scored by wanting to avoid the ball). Before resuming in additional time and returning with a baroque draw.
It's the great story of the day when Tanguy Kouassi, who appeared for the first time with the pros this season in Montpellier in December, a priori has no chance of seeing Dortmund in the position of a holder. It may not have no limits in the air but still a little, it seems, in terms of experience for this kind of appointment even if Presnel Kimpembe started the Champions League by the MSN (Messi - Suarez - Neymar) from Barcelona in 2017.
Thiago Silva in need of rhythm
At the end, PSG returned from the Somme with a Bundesliga score (4-4), three goals from a corner and major questions. Certainly, nothing prepares for the matches of the Champions League and probably not a meeting in Picardy against the 19th in the French championship. So let's move on to suspicious engagement, anemic offensive animation, the uncertain motivation of the second knives (Draxler, Bakker, Herrera, Cavani). But let's look at the individual situations since the match was used for that first.
Involved on the first three goals, Thiago Silva totally lacks rhythm. His support is heavy, his benchmarks not yet returned. The captain is 35 years old and the machine does not restart as quickly as before, after 17 days of cut due to discomfort in the pubis (he resumed this week in Dijon in the Coupe de France). The question of his tenure in Dortmund arises.
Who could replace him while Abdou Diallo is injured, Tanguy Kouassi promising but too young, Presnel Kimpembe uncertain, Marquinhos not yet ready - he entered the break, after a last appearance on January 22 in Reims. He remains among the natural solutions Thilo Kehrer, the least of which we can say is that the last time he played in the eighth finals of the Champions League, he did not really want to see him again here and now.
Which left-back in Dortmund?
A year after his collapse on the return against Manchester United, his emotional management of major events remains unclear. He did not remove all doubts. The ideal would be a Marquinhos - Kimpembe hinge but it is also to trust two players disabled by injuries recently. Two, isn't it too much?
In the middle would take place Marco Verratti, entered at the break, and Gana Gueye, who did not give everything this Saturday in Amiens. In front, the four attackers are expected, with Mauro Icardi, Kylian Mbappé and Angel Di Maria around Neymar, invisible since February 1 on a football field. On the sides of the defense, Thomas Meunier will take the right one and the left one is in the balance between Juan Bernat, 29 minutes this Saturday afternoon in Picardy, and Layvin Kurzawa, who stayed in Paris.
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The Spaniard accumulates twice 29 minutes in the week, that is to say less than an hour of play. It seems little. Paris flies away this Monday for Dortmund, always escorted by its doubts. Like every year when the Champions League and knockout matches return.