No one can yet say that PSG will win the 2022 French championship title, but it is certain that they did not lose it in the first three days, an analysis which attaches to its failure of last season. With three victories including two away, an experimental team to which we must incorporate the Internationals of the Euro or the Copa America and the vagueness of certain hierarchies - the goalkeeper in particular but also in the middle and in front depending on the system chosen - Paris makes a successful start in this edition, although it is not brilliant. But what big team is it in August and in Europe? Usually, this is neither the place nor the time. We must take the points and, from this point of view, the partners of Presnel Kimpembe ensure with this full box.
In addition, they add new products, gifts and paid returns at each stage.
In Brest, Gana Gueye, prevented by the Covid since the Champions Trophy lost in Israel, signed a striking comeback in the starting XI with a light strike from 40 m, lightning, this kind of goal that we see in Germany by saying that it lacks in Ligue 1. Fortunately, there is the Senegalese and his masterful right foot, weighted with a catapult apparently.
There was also the first achievement of Kylian Mbappé after two meetings to take care of everything, to be involved in almost everything, except scoring, and his replacement, Angel Di Maria.
Defensive fragility
The joy of French crack will be interpreted in various ways in Madrid and Paris. In Spain, we will see the classy farewells of a maestro while, in the French capital, it will become the sign of his visceral attachment, clenched fists and energetic greetings to the Parisian bench. The world champion also scored with a head but a head to his sauce, subtle and placed. It slipped like a caress in the goal of Bizot. The first three games of the Ligue 1 season of PSG give off an identical impression, the same qualities but also the same faults. There are legs, good surprises like the successful start to the championship of Ander Herrera, the sharp appeals of Achraf Hakimi, movement and offensive wills.
In the minus column, a defensive fragility persists, too many stops to be made for Navas, a consequent offensive waste with sometimes muddled combinations which refer to the funny performances of Mauro Icardi, static attacker, to the baroque positioning of Georginio Wijnaldum from Troyes . The Dutchman started right winger, then left before moving to mid-lane against Strasbourg before finishing as playmaker behind the two points this Friday in Brest. Nothing really works as her great potential, her subtle technique and her impact are shaping up to be strengths that Paris will badly need.
These slags, Troyes, Strasbourg and Brest sanctioned them with five goals, an astronomical total, and a clean sheet (match without conceding anything) in August would not have been refused.
PSG will try their luck again in Reims on Sunday 29, with Leo Messi not far away.
Champagne will slash the advent of the best player in the world in our championship and, for his part, discover a winning team.
Everything is there to spend a hell of an evening.
MATCH SHEET
Half-time:
1-2
Referee:
M. Wattellier
Spectators.
14,586
Goals.
Brest: Honorat (42nd).
PSG: Herrera (23rd), Mbappé (38th), Di Maria (90th).
Warnings.
Brest: Brassier (52nd), Mounié (85th).
PSG: Verratti (53rd), Mbappé (65th), Gueye (73rd).
Brest:
Bizot - Pierre-Gabriel (Duverne, 86th), Chardonnet (cap.), Brassier, Uronen - Mbock, Belkebla (Magnetti, 74th) - Honorat, Faivre, Cardona (Le Douaron? 74th) - Mounié.
Entr.
:
Der Zakarian.
PSG:
Navas - Hakimi, Kehrer, Kimpembe (cap.), Diallo - Gueye, Wijnaldum, Verratti (Draxler, 72nd), Herrera - Icardi (Kalimuendo, 86th), Mbappé (Di Maria, 81st).
Entr.
:
Pochettino.
