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PSG-Saint-Etienne: with this state of mind, Paris can win everything

2021-04-18T18:24:32.161Z


Winner in the snatch of Saint-Etienne this Sunday, PSG is entitled to dream of a colossal hat-trick by displaying the same mentality in the Ligue d


It's a Sunday that will count.

By importing in Ligue 1, against Saint-Etienne (3-2), its provisions of the Champions League, PSG embarked on an incredible and crazy dream but above all credible: to win everything, the European Cup, the championship and the Coupe de France, a hat-trick that narrowly escaped them in 2020. The ingredients observed to overthrow the Greens give, if not a manual, at least a roadmap.

In the standings, the Parisians, opposed this Wednesday to Angers in the quarter-final of the Coupe de France, return, above all, to one point behind the leader Lille.

A European mind.

This is not to say that PSG delivered against Saint-Etienne a performance worthy of his outings in Barcelona or Bayern. On the contrary, the team dawdled, for lack of imagination in the last thirty meters. But the subject is elsewhere. He has transposed his character from the last two rounds of the Champions League against the Greens. "It is the victory of a team which believes in it, which does not surrender", develops Mauricio Pochettino, drawing on the lexical field of combat as if to better underline the spirit of resistance of his people. From week to week, his PSG does not invent anything but refocuses on the essential: the soul, the collective, the effort all together. And that changes everything from then on. Pochettino has yet to change the game, but he has transformed everything in the psychology of his eleven,capable of uniting to save a qualification for the semi-final of the Champions League or reverse a Ligue 1 result, led 1-0 by ASSE or joined at 2-2. “The team has mentality, not just athleticism and talent. These three points give us energy, a very positive electric current to face what awaits us and which will be difficult. "

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Mbappé guides him.

The world champion knows how to do everything, we do not discover it. But his rage tells of a determined man, an involvement that awakened his partners at the same time as Angel Di Maria found solutions in the Saint-Etienne bloc. In the end, he was happier this Sunday than Tuesday after qualifying against Bayern. "We have not given up," said the attacker on Canal +. The championship is extremely important for us, it is a primary objective. It would be the tenth of the club and we want to participate in the history of the club. The crack of Bondy has undoubtedly never been so strong in his short career. Since the first leg in Barcelona and his hat-trick, he has flown over everything in the club, with performances where he mixes the whole panoply - goals, assists, charisma, grinta,fury - as if he validated his accession to the Golden Ball on each outing. "We know that Kylian Mbappé wants to be the best player in the world and you can see that in every match he wants to show that", supports Ander Herrera.

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Universal energy.

Mauricio Pochettino, a fine psychologist, maintains a positive chemistry around his troop. He multiplies reassuring outings and advances this concept of "universal energy", a mixture of the Coué method and constructive waves. The idea is to take the pressure off a club that is often crushed by stakes or hard knocks (injuries, suspensions, burglaries) while finding effective alternative solutions. The benefit of this philosophy of life and management remains intangible but it is tempting to bring the result of events closer together. Fifteen seconds from the end of the match on Sunday, PSG was on the verge of losing its second place before picking up a point behind Lille. There are too many reversals in favor of Paris to believe in a coincidence, between the exit of Marquinhos and the replacement of Danilo in Munich,or the goal almost on the gong of Mauro Icardi, an invisible attacker since March 14. With Pochettino, the irrational tilts on the right side.

Source: leparis

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