At the Parc des Princes
"We're going to kill the players," Thomas Tuchel hammered again recently, referring to the accumulation of matches.
In this case, it is his PSG who suffers, and sees the infirmary fill up match after match.
Facing Rennes this Saturday (3-0 victory; Kean, Di Maria x2), during the tenth day of the French championship, the German coach had to compose without Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, Marco Verratti, Leo Paredes, Julian Draxler and Juan Bernat.
Announced forfeit, Keylor Navas was finally able to take his place.
Good news for the staff, who are more used to hard knocks lately ... In fact, it's been a long time since Paris has subscribed to injuries, more than elsewhere.
There are the regulars of the infirmary, like Marco Verratti, but there are also the others, like Idrissa Gueye, who had not really experienced a muscle injury before joining the capital.
And since then, the Senegalese has been contaminated by the Parisian disease.
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Because against Rennes, “Gana” was the first to stick his tongue out and wave the white flag.
From the 13th minute, he asked to be replaced.
Raphinha in his place.
“We have one injured per game,” quipped the German coach a few weeks ago.
Low rating.
Because in the 36th minute, when Paris had already made the break and Rennais started against, Thilo Kehrer remained on the ground.
Long absent due to a groin injury, the German had come into play in the last three matches, before starting this Saturday.
Mitchel Bakker took his place, forcing Tuchel to use Layvin Kurzawa as… right back.
Never two without three
At the break, our little
Canal +
comrades had
fun with the fact that PSG were not going to lose a new player before returning to the field.
They spoke a bit quickly.
We saw Colin Dragba in consultation with "Herr Tuchel" before the return of the rest of the team.
And the young (22 years) international Espoirs tricolor indeed came into play, in place of Alessandro Florenzi, the Italian international being the victim of "a small muscle discomfort" according to our colleagues of the encrypted channel.
The term slaughter will soon no longer be strong enough to evoke the situation of Paris Saint-Germain and its wounded.
Moreover, Tuchel quickly made a new change to the resumption, with the first scorer of the match, Moise Kean, who limped when taking place on the bench (61st, replaced by Danilo Pereira).
No care for the young (20 years) Italian international, already author of five goals and an assist in seven matches in Paris.
Nothing serious ?
In any case, the alert rating has been reached for a long time.
And the situation calls out.
Admittedly, PSG was not helped by the end of Ligue 1 and its end of the European campaign on the side of Lisbon, with the final of the Champions League scheduled at the same time as the first day of Ligue 1. From suddenly, even if they had taken a few days off by postponing a match in Lens, the Parisians started the season without a preparation worthy of the name.
And between the L1, the C1 and the selections, the matches are linked at a frantic pace.
Let us not forget that many players of the red and blue workforce have been affected by Covid-19, and very clever who can guess the more or less long-term consequences on organizations.
"There is no secret, there is a relationship between preparation, no injury and good performance"
Thomas tuchel
“In football, we always ask for the best players because they play for the national team, they have trips… For me, it's too much, because we don't have a phase to really recover, nor a phase preparation, Tuchel plagued last week, before the trip to Nantes (3-0 victory).
However, there is no secret, there is a relationship between preparation, no injury and good performance, that exists in sport.
Without preparation, all players are fragile, it is difficult to manage them.
It will happen… ”And it happened again this Saturday, during this quiet victory against a dull and fragile Breton team (3-0).
"It's not an excuse, it's the truth," said the Bavarian technician.
And it's not only the case for us, it's the same for Liverpool, City or Bayern, everyone ... It's a game for the players and if it continues like this, there will be no more players to give joy and performance. "
Congratulations to Jonathan Calderwood and his team who have just received the trophy for the best lawn of the 2019/2020 season with an exceptional score of 19.44 / 20!
- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) November 7, 2020
It will soon be up to the gardener, Jonathan Calderwood, to put on the crampons to help Paris Saint-Germain on a meadow that he pampers.
He takes care of it so well that the Englishman received the trophy for the best lawn of the 2019-20 season on Saturday.
Not sure that the Parisian medical staff will receive a medal soon, even if once again, the schedule is not the fault of the club in the capital ...
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