The PSG of the Messi era is well born, even if it does not weigh very heavy yet, bringing back from the Aube a success, short but important, while Monaco and Lyon have already given up points.
It is a tormented victory, with many parades from Keylor Navas, too many to speak of serenity or obvious superiority.
In August, nobody is ready, we must first win and Paris understood it very well after their hitch in the Champions Trophy against Lille (0-1).
This narrow 2-1 victory already draws a border with everything that will need to be improved in the near future, at the same time as the organizations will digest the preparation: defensive solidity with a heavy and not very mobile axis, overall control and less fragility that always let the opponent believe that he can hope for more. Paris is still at this stage a team that leaves dreams in the air. Soon he will have to enclose them in the affirmation of a style that wears out, rolls and pulverizes his opposition. In August, the teams he meets will taste this democracy before it gives way to a more authoritarian regime - this is the goal of Mauricio Pochettino, who has never seen his training unplayable in the French championship.
In a match always open and spectacular, Troyes played his luck, showing against "one of the best teams in Europe", according to the announcer, the same delicacies which allowed him to access L1 this season, after four years in the anteroom and a title of champion last spring. The reward for this overwhelming desire was quick with the double error of an overtaken Presnel Kimpembe to concede an avoidable corner and a passive defense on the head of Oualid El-Hajjam (1-0, 9th).
But Paris, laid out in 4-4-2 flat with an off-center Gini Wijnaldum on one side, hadn't really deployed yet, and when he started he got annoyed by slamming two goals in two minutes. The first of the Parisian season, pure, limpid, a fantastic half-volley, returns to Achraf Hakimi, who will fight until the end to try to be the best recruit of the summer, but the competition is mad with those already there and those (the one?) soon with them. The Moroccan was the only new kickoff with the Dutchman, the rest being made up of players promised limited playing time this season, like Thilo Kehrer or Ander Herrera. The second goal comes from an old recipe, with a subtle delivery from Kylian Mbappé, already very leggy, for Mauro Icardi,the main victim of the next arrival of the six-fold Ballon d'Or.
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The PSG will have been effective above all, scoring on his first shot on target and winning without putting Gauthier Gallon to death.
He could have won more widely - this is what he let shine through in the offensive sequences -, but without giving himself the means or the opportunities, apart from two clever lobs of Mbappé without the success that the 'one, at least, would have deserved.
He will try his luck again next week at the Parc against Strasbourg.
An evening when there may be other surprises on the sidelines of the match.
