Former PSG coach between 2005 and 2007, Guy Lacombe (65), deciphers PSG's victory on Sunday night in Lyon (4-2).
“This is what I felt,” he told us before explaining himself.
The mind: "Maybe Lyon had put itself in the role of favorite".
“It's a tactical victory but I don't know if Lyon hadn't played too much before… Afterwards, maybe Lyon had put themselves in the role of favorite too.
What the French don't like very much
(laughs)
!
But that, these are things that a coach, who knows his players well, does not master.
Because I don't think Lyon was surprised by Pochettino or Paris.
Verratti in number 10, he's been doing it for a while.
The Parisians had a very, very good game.
But the match we were waiting for.
On the other hand, in the first half, we can not say that it was from the great Lyon.
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Intensity: "Paris has regained some pep"
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“What really impressed me was the intensity that the Parisians put in, the quality of the counter-pressing.
I believe that Pochettino is improving the quality of each player.
He has repositioned a little bit a clear pattern in the eyes of the players.
Afterwards, I still know the music and I know it's always a bit like that, because what they did with Thomas Tuchel was not just anything either.
But, yes, on a physical level, Pochettino makes the boys work a little harder.
Paris has regained some pep.
That's clear.
Like Mbappé.
Sunday we saw a Mbappé really in legs!
It's great Mbappé there!
When he's at the top, honestly Paris looks different.
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The Pochettino paw: “Everyone works”.
“In terms of play, organization, Pochettino played Pochettino.
It is true that currently the team is doing well like that.
Between Barça's first leg and this one, we can see that there is something.
Afterwards, he made some readjustments: he put Kean on the right in Barcelona, there in the axis.
Most of all, everyone is working.
After that, there is a really interesting Gueye-Danilo duo.
With Verratti in addition.
When you see that there is still Paredes behind… He had chosen the men in relation to that match.
They agreed with him.
But that is the role of the coach and with the career he has made, we can trust him.
Maybe the next game he will play differently because he studies the opponent a lot.
He knows exactly what will hurt.
And it's true that PSG, when it's like that, it hurts.
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The defensive articulation: "They had worked well on the cover".
“Frankly, at the start of the game, we were just waiting for the goals.
When we see Mbappé's tumble on the left from the 6th minute and this caviar given to Kean… Wow!
There, they were at a very high level, undeniably.
They did not miss their game.
They were 100%.
I believe that Paris was perhaps a little afraid of the sides of Lyon.
And we saw the two axial ones were going to look on the sides.
But there was always either Danilo or Gueye, to come in the axis and cover that.
They had worked the cover well.
And there you are strong.
And you collect good balloons.
There is that but also the control they had with the ball.
We did not feel the Paris of the return match against Barcelona.
We felt that of the first leg.
We see how important the psychological side of each part is.
The only thing is that at 4-0, there is a demobilization and, that, Pochettino will not fail to exploit it
(laughs)
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