The American stars must have enjoyed the real show of the Parisian stars, heated to white by the presentation of the premieres.
The PSG of Kylian Mbappé, Presnel Kimpembe and Mauro Icardi had a blast against Strasbourg, before getting scared after the break in a physical collapse.
It is still a B team for Paris, with its Abdou Diallo, Ander Herrera or Eric Junior Dina-Ebimbe, a surprise holder, but it still has enough talent and ahead of Ligue 1 to avoid being completely trapped. and fall asleep.
Here is the formation of Mauricio Pochettino endowed with six points, with a start diametrically opposed to that of Thomas Tuchel, who had dragged his two initial defeats as a burden in 2020. Trips to Brest then Reims will allow to refine the preparation for this Private group of essential executives, from Marco Verratti to Neymar to Marquinhos and, of course, Leo Messi, celebrated like a God an hour before kick-off.
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The second victory of the season will remain like a sour candy, a sweet treat of the month of August with a new goal from Mauro Icardi, however offside on the images, which made the Strasbourg people crazy when they saw the action again. at halftime.
But this strange success, stamped with the possibilities of a start to the season with organizations subjected to long-term efforts, did not taste the thrills of the arrival of the six-fold Golden Ball France Football, decked out with a new white t-shirt with "We are Paris" written on it ("We are Paris").
A call to communion, received perfectly by this stage of trance that is the Park.
A crater in full eruption
A gift from heaven and the tortured finances of Barcelona, Messi landed on Parisian mainland with all the aura of the discreet rock star that he is. In this erupting crater with nearly 50,000 lovers holding out a phone to immortalize the moment, he appeared last on the podium set up by the club, after Achraf Hakimi, Georginio Wijnaldum, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Sergio Ramos. To film is to engrave in stone a moment in the history of French football. It is also seeing it to believe it as the signing of Leo Messi is a matter of dream, expectation and magic. So it's true, the Park saw it and Messi reconstituted his duet with Neymar then to enjoy a Ligue 1 match over time, which was not to happen to him every night before.
The presentation of our 5⃣ recruits 🤩❤️💙 # NewDiamondsInParis pic.twitter.com/J7OrvUXfx7
- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) August 14, 2021
He will therefore have seen his future partners having fun in Strasbourg for 45 minutes, with an attacking leader named Kylian Mbappé, on whom the whistles slipped like rain. This was to be expected, he who knows perfectly well that people are never disappointed. Already third top scorer in club history behind Edinson Cavani and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he is therefore criticized for his silence, his desire for freedom - not to extend, to leave perhaps this summer or in a year. There is the dream on one side and the real on the other and the world champion clings more to the second than to the first. Author of two new assists, almost scorer of 2-0, he will have marked the evening on the field, more than his teammates who gave up after the break. With all these stars, PSG was almost dazzled but, Mbappé,no one can shade him.
Match sheet
Spectators:
47,900.
Referee:
Willy Delajod.
Goals.
Paris SG: Icardi (3rd), Ajorque (25th csc), Draxler (27th), Sarabia (86th).
Strasbourg: Gameiro (53rd), Ajorque (64th).
Warnings.
Paris SG: Ebimbe (51st).
Strasbourg: Fila (60th), Djiku (79th), Bellegarde (90th + 3).
Expulsion.
Strasbourg: Djiku (81st, 2nd warning).
Paris SG:
Navas - Hakimi, Kimpembe (cap.), Kehrer, Diallo - Wijnaldum (Rafinha, 88th), Ebimbe (Pereira, 60th), Herrera - Draxler (Sarabia, 70th), Icardi (Kalimuendo-Muinga, 88th), Mbappé .
Entr.
: Pochettino.
Strasbourg:
Sels - Fila (Caci, 63rd), Perrin, Sissoko, Djiku, Liénard (cap.) - Aholou (Thomasson, 42nd), Prcic (Siby, 76th), Bellegarde - Gameiro (Waris, 76th), Ajorque (Diallo, 76th). Entr. : Stéphan.
