PSG: Leandro Paredes, indispensable or unbearable?

It only took him a minute after coming into play in the 71st minute against OM to receive his first yellow card.

Leandro Paredes, the 26-year-old Parisian midfielder, will then be sent off at the end of the match by Mr. Brisard after pushing Benedetto and starting the general fight.

Sanctioned by two suspension games plus one suspended by the disciplinary committee, Paredes returns to the Parisian group.

This week, he assured on the waves of an Argentinian radio that this match had served as a trigger and that he was going to change his behavior.

While waiting to see if this is really the case, Luis Fernandez and Mickaël Madar each present their opinion on the committed attitude of Paredes within a collective: essential, as Di Maria judged recently, or unbearable?

ESSENTIAL

"It's important to have someone of your own temperament"

Luis Fernandez (former PSG midfielder and coach, beIN Sports consultant).

LP / Frédéric DUGIT  

“I like players who have temperament.

But you have to know how to do it intelligently, when you put aggression, commitment, it must not go to overflow.

We cannot systematically do that on a field.

Afterwards, Paredes is Argentinian.

And the Argentines, I trained and I crossed them!

By definition they have this grinta in them.

That is to say that on a ground there are no calculations.

They don't say to each other:

They go all out every time.

I have always appreciated this temperament.

Boys I've had like Pochettino or Heinze.

Him, it was the same, you had to slow him down, calm him down, but people have always liked the Heinze style.

Why ?

Because these are players who don't cheat.

Sometimes they let themselves go a little bit, a little go.

But we can't take that away from them.

Paredes, we must already know one thing, it is that he had to overcome a situation where he was not the choice of a coach

.

And today, he also wants to show that on a field that he is not only a good technician but that he can also go into the engagement.

Maybe he doesn't know how to do it well enough yet.

He needs to come to terms with himself, calm down a bit, settle down a bit, but I think it's going to do it.

Because it's important to have someone of your own temperament, who doesn't balk.

Especially when you play with Neymar or Mbappé.

They should know that behind them they have boys who bring that intensity.

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Paredes, we are asking him today to go in a hurry, to put some commitment into recovery.

Maybe in the past he was too playful.

He changed his style a bit.

But be careful, he needs to be a little more measured.

It's up to him to find the right distance and know when it's good to do it.

Because the qualities, he has them.

"

INSUPPORTABLE

"He does not help"

Mickaël Madar (former PSG striker, Canal + consultant) ./ Canal + / Thierry Gromik  

“His case poses a problem.

You can count on him but when you arrive in a match where you have to put your foot a little, show that you are there and that you do not let yourself go, you reach a limit.

Because he can't control himself.

Of course you need players like that in a team.

It is even almost lacking in PSG.

If you had had against Bayern

, it might have changed the course of the match.

Because they haven't stopped kicking.

But not in the eyes of everyone.

They are smarter, more vicious.

What's annoying about Paredes is that he has no limits.

It is kind of a shame.

And that's hard to change.

It's like Verratti: you can tell him what you want, he will always yell for a fault on the referee or an opponent.

Afterwards, you can also tone it down by doing a little less.

But it's true that it's difficult, we can see it: every time he enters, often he will get a yellow card and he will start to growl about all the faults.

And that's embarrassing for a coach.

For me, against Marseille, Tuchel should not bring him in.

It was not a good idea.

There was a good chance it was going the wrong way again.

Afterwards, I find that compared to his beginnings where I found him very bad, he was showing us something else, with some useful qualities for Paris.

But there, no, with this attitude, he does not help.

And he's doing himself a disservice.

Because already he doesn't play a lot, if he gets kicked out or warned each time… I don't know if it's possible but he has to be able to channel himself a little more.

At the time I find it unbearable. But I don't find it unbearable to have these kind of players with a temperament in a team. Even though you know he's gonna fuck you ... at some point. A concrete example of someone who will put as many blows and as many times yell while being less visible, it is Benjamin André

. He does not stop: fault after fault but without ever taking a card. Because he does it with intelligence. But Paredes, he's either not smart or he can't control himself. I do not know… "