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PSG-Nantes: attention to the return to earth

2021-03-14T06:19:43.452Z


Four days after settling accounts with Barça, PSG will have to know how to manage their emotions so as not to be trapped against Nantes c


Has the "confirmada" settled everything?

Carried away with it the stigmas and shortcomings of the past?

Or has Paris still retained nothing of the lived experience and its shortcomings that accompany each of its returns to earth?

Barça and Nantes do not evolve in the same spheres, both hovering millions of light years away.

As astonishing as it may seem, the second will have the power to provide, this Sunday, answers to questions arising from the visit of the first to the capital this Wednesday evening.

Four days after settling accounts with Barça, swept away, admittedly with difficulty, but still swept away the ghosts of the comeback, PSG tackles another of its scarecrows: this almost chronic difficulty in passing from European summits to the most modest Ligue 1 targets.

If of course does not explain everything, the club of the capital seems in any case to mark the occasion after each moment of euphoria experienced since the start of the season.

In the wake of a historic Final 8, physically and morally exhausting, Paris lost its first two league games in Lens (1-0) and in front of OM (0-1).

Control your emotions

Of course, the Covid was also invited back to school.

But the points dropped against Bordeaux (2-2) and Lyon (0-1) at the Park were again in the wake of the victories gleaned in front of Leipzig (1-0) and Basaksehir (5-1).

The last defeat to date, to Monaco (0-2), came four days after the demonstration at Camp Nou (1-4) in the quarter-final first leg.

As if Paris was a victim of its emotions, unable to maintain the same level of concentration, requirement and involvement after each of its boxes.

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Mauricio Pochettino said nothing else, no doubt, when he specified that the meeting against Nantes, 19th and penultimate in Ligue 1 "is not a trap match", as Paris "is informed of the situation.

"" We had great joy with Europe on Wednesday evening, recalls the Argentine coach as a warning.

But we know what awaits us, Nantes is a team that will make things difficult for us as Monaco and Barcelona did.

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Barcelona, ​​Nantes, Lille, Lyon… On paper, Antoine Kombouaré's Canaries have, however, everything of an intruder in this chain of appetizing and undecided shocks between Paris and its main competitors.

The past suggests that the equation is not so simple and that the most harmless profiles are, for Paris in any case, not the least dangerous.

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Four days after Mbappé woke up in January against Montpellier (4-0), a totally absent PSG was bowed (3-2) in Lorient, then 19th in Ligue 1. Marquinhos and his band, who launched challenged to win all the last Ligue 1 games, have they finished with their bad habits?

"PSG must always remember that they play every competition and every match to win them," Pochettino said yesterday.

To his players, even deprived of Neymar and Kean, to show that they have received the message.

Source: leparis

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