More than four months after receiving Dortmund in the knockout stages of the Champions League (2-0, March 11), PSG was happy to find a Parc des Princes far from ringing hollow. The 1,000 inserts of the Collective Ultras Paris put a souk not possible this Friday evening for the reception of Waasland-Beveren by freeing themselves from physical distancing as if the next world should resemble the world before.
For them, between March 11 and July 17, nothing has changed and this unwavering love has something powerful but also surprising and lunar. During this time, the two giant screens of the Parc des Princes broadcast health prevention messages with Mbappé and Marquinhos in the role of managers reminding them of the barrier gestures to be respected.
On the ground, PSG was a little less sharp than in Le Havre (9-0, July 12), with a more uncertain physique and a significant technical waste. Mauro Icardi, who will have missed two school matches before the almost empty goal, will not have the right to start again on August 12 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Atalanta Bergamo in Lisbon but we may also think that he will have found his correctness by then. A sign that it was necessary to save the soldier Mauro, Neymar will offer him a decisive pass on… penalty, his second of the evening after Mbappé had forced Vukotic to score against his camp in the 20th minute of a match played in four games of 30 minutes each.
Mbappé, Verratti and Marquinhos, the good students
The big lesson of the evening is in defense where Thiago Silva started, alongside Marquinhos. Kimpembe appeared in the second hour with Mbe Soh. As he says he is focused on the final of the Coupe de France on July 24 against Saint-Etienne, Thomas Tuchel still seems to hesitate in his 4-4-2 on the identity of his second defender, to therefore choose between the captain and the French world champion.
Against the Belgians of Waasland-Beveren, Paris therefore proceeded as planned in an attack - defense resembling the exit from L1, the Tuchel team sometimes appearing to lack imagination and especially of juice, which is quite normal at this time beyond the season. The capital club resumed less than a month ago and the idea is to be ready in a little month rather than a week even if it is not a question of sitting on the National Cups .
Failing to keep a collective trace, the eye scanned the states of individual form with in the category of good students Mbappé, Verratti, Marquinhos and Bakker and in that of the boys more physically struggling Neymar still diesel or Kehrer clumsy, to unless it is definitely his trademark.
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The substitutes of the last two quarters in a completely disjointed match - Belgians ten because of an exclusion then again eleven in the second match; a change of referees at half-time - allowed Choupo-Moting, the last-hour elected official who will play in the Champions League when he had to sign in a club of second zone, to score a double , a sign that nothing is really normal at the moment in football. Tuesday, Paris does it again and this time, the level goes up with the reception of the Scots from Celtic Glasgow.
