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PSG: the "MNM" is not yet that

2021-09-16T03:23:35.335Z


The magic trio Messi-Neymar-Mbappé appeared very perfectible Wednesday, on the ground of Bruges (1-1), in the Champions League.


With Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, PSG has three of the best strikers in the world. Three players who make the crowds dream and the defenses tremble. Except that the rearguard of Bruges did not tremble that much Wednesday night (1-1), during the meeting between the two teams on behalf of the first day of the group stage of the Champions League . Certainly, Mbappé was decisive on Ander Herrera's goal, Messi touched the bar and Neymar spent his time, but the score is not there. Obviously, this was only the first time that the three superstars have lined up together. No question of burying their association after a match. Especially since the trio changed into a duo from the 51st minute, after the exit from injury of the international tricolor of 22 years.Neymar and Messi, who quickly regained their Barcelona reflexes, looked for each other more regularly after that and until the end. Said Messi also gave a golden ball to Mbappé in the first period, the goalkeeper of Club Bruges, Simon Mignolet, thwarting their plan on the spot.

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The understanding between the three thieves of this line of attack "All Stars" remains however to be perfected.

Normal at this stage of the season.

It can't just come in training, but also in matches.

They need to understand each other

”, confesses Mauricio Pochettino, logically determined to give time to this famous“

MNM

”which makes the whole of Europe salivate.

To see if the three players will be able to start together again on Sunday, against Lyon, on the sixth day of the French L1 championship, after Mbappé's injury exit on Wednesday.

PSG cut in half

Which Mbappé also appeared in legs at the Jan-Breydel stadium. Messi, who has only played a handful of minutes in Reims (2-1 victory) and two matches with Argentina since the start of the season, a little less. Although, the six-fold Golden Ball strove to assume its responsibilities at the end of the game, pushing to snatch the three points. If he has found well-defined abs, unlike his return from vacation, Neymar, he has work to find his optimal form. In Belgium, his acceleration did not really stun his opponents ... Like this ball above the defense in the first period for Gini Wijnaldum, the Brazilian is always capable of exceptional gestures. But without his usual backlash, itis more complicated to eliminate… But the most embarrassing will have been the lack of involvement of the three stars with the dark spots. Little concerned by the withdrawal, they exposed their circles and defenders. "

I don't think the problem is with the work of the three offensive players. I'm happy with what they did today. We must be stronger in other areas of play,

"corrected"

Pocket

"at a press conference. And to add: “

We were not strong enough to win a Champions League match.

"

Good news ? It is certainly not mid-September that you should be on top. It is in February, March, April and May. By then, the “MNM” will have grown, it will have asserted itself. And all the rest of the Parisian team with her. “

We have a group made up of magnificent players. As I have already said, it is now necessary to find the defensive organization which will give us this solidity and the offensive organization which will allow us to create danger. We need time for that,

”concludes Pochettino. There is no more. In the meantime, it will be easy to understand those who have remained unsatisfied.

Source: lefigaro

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