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PSG-Manchester City (2-0): we found the Paris of great evenings

2021-10-03T23:15:38.805Z


Paris took the lead in its group in the Champions League by beating Manchester on Tuesday, the opponent a priori the most relieved of the group. Leo


Genius on top of that. We found the PSG of the Champions League, the one who stings the opponent, leaves the ball, rounds his back and puts on his lucky star to stay informed. But we had almost forgotten - he also put his own for long minutes - that with Leo Messi, he has the player who has re-enchanted football with his own software installed at the end of his feet, directed from his head. With Kylian Mbappé, the first decisive passer in its Parisian history, the Parc des Princes experienced a new world with the first goal at PSG from the Argentinian leprechaun, handsome devil with a body coming out of his box. A bright goal. Messiah, what!

Let's rewind.

First the method.

That of the counter, the abandonment of the ball and the thorns hidden under the rose.

This is how Mauricio Pochettino climbed last season in the semi-finals of the Champions League, after having taken out Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

There is a limit to everything and Manchester City had destroyed the manual, punishing Paris on defensive weak points, full-backs and midfielder.

In September, all did not change but there is better after the end of the joke Alessandro Florenzi and an aggressiveness found in the heart of the game, like Gana Gueye, stalker-scorer of European stature.

In City the balloon, in Paris the resistance

For a long time, often and almost all the time, PSG have proven that they can transform into a team, by making common efforts during a scenario known in advance but pushed to caricature. In City the balloon, in Paris the resistance. To do nothing but defend is not a style and the partners of Marquinhos almost paid him dearly with a double crossbar (26th) from Raheem Sterling and Bernardo Silva recalling the adage that a great goalkeeper - Donnarumma was immense for his first in the Champions League - is escorted by success.

We would have to review everything to know what belongs to the Parisian impossibility of regaining control and what relates to the refusal of an obstacle because we are leading and we will see if we can dive a second time against with speed by Kylian Mbappé. What almost happened with a center of the world champion for an Ander Herrera applied on his shot but too much on Ederson (38th).

Nevertheless, seeing Mbappé tear himself away in order to take out a hot ball for a corner, Idrissa Gueye explode on each opponent in an incessant pressing, Marco Verratti meticulously study the angle of pass just for a clean exit of the ball, gave a another form of emotion, that of a collective which has become aware of the preservation of a goal, in every sense of the word, of its ability to stand together in the face of the enormous possibility of Citizens to use at the four corners ground. In an evening when Paris found itself on its past and recent standards, nothing should be exaggerated and this success should be tasted in its rightful place. In front, for example, the file has not really advanced, with a trio sometimes dissonant, walking more in pairs than in trident. But whatever. Against City, those who were together, it was the eleven at the start. That,it's a team! At last.

Match sheet

Half-time: 1-0.

Referee:

C. del Cerro Grande (Esp).

Spectators:

47,000.

Goals.

Gueye (8th), Messi (74th).

Warnings.

PSG: Verratti (77th).

Manchester City: Cancelo (24th), De Bruyne (39th).

PSG:

Donnarumma - Hakimi, Marquinhos (cap.), Kimpembe, Mendes - Herrera, Verratti (Wijnaldum, 78th), Gueye (Danilo, 90th) - Messi, Mbappé, Neymar.

Entr.

:

Pochettino.

Manchester City:

Ederson - Walker, Dias (cap.), Laporte, Cancelo - De Bruyne, Rodri, B. Silva - Mahrez, Sterling (Jesus, 78th), Grealish (Foden, 68th).

Entr.

:

Guardiola.

Source: leparis

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