We knew this season the PSG capable of turning a match on individual exploits.
We rediscovered on Saturday in Bordeaux, and it is good news for the eyes, that he is also qualified to do it as a group or at least in pairs, since the talent of geniuses like Neymar and Mbappé has 'enough network to reconnect.
Obvious from their profile, the predispositions of the tandem to sparks had taken the lead in the wing, especially because of the start of the season as upset as annoying the Brazilian leader. But that was before. Saturday, at the end of the success gleaned in front of Bordeaux (3-2), it was almost only for him in the spans of Matmut Atlantique, his double combined with the cruel death of his friend the singer Marilia Mendonça in a plane crash that made him the inevitable unhappy hero of this 13th day. "He has again shown that he is a great player," said his young partner Éric Junior Dina Edimbé. He not only gave us two great goals, but he also relieved us and allowed us to manage the game more calmly. "
His first double, since that registered on January 31 during the setback in Lorient (3-2), will have especially highlighted this agreement found with Kylian Mbappé, author of two assists for his Brazilian friend. Because we can say that the two stars get along like thieves in the fair or think that genius necessarily unites talents, these two had no longer distinguished themselves together and statistically made each other shine for years. chandeliers. This season, they had certainly played only nine games together (3 in the Champions League, 6 in Ligue 1) before the trip to Gironde. But none of the 6 goals of the tricolor world champion had been issued by the Brazilian, yet author of 3 assists. Just as the French had, despite his 9 services, not either,allowed the number 10 to increase his starving capital goal (1 penalty).
Neymar and Mbappé have never stopped looking for each other
We must actually go back to April 7 under the snow of Munich, during the success in the quarter-finals of the Champions League (2-3), to find traces of the last goal which, with Neymar to the pass and Mbappé to the finish , directly linked the two players.
We need to go back a little more to remember that Mbappé's last assist for Neymar dates back to last January during the victory against Montpellier (4-0).
These two, there is no doubt, yet have unparalleled affinities.
It is anything but a coincidence if, since they rub shoulders in the Parisian jersey, a quarter of the assists delivered by the Frenchman are addressed to the Brazilian or that Mbappé converts a third of those sent by Neymar.
Saturday, like almost every time they walk together, they never stopped looking for each other, in the depths or in small spaces, outside or at the heel, blindly or without fuss.
The Frenchman's center at the far post on the Brazilian's first goal, then this delicious heel on the second, confirmed that the duo had great hours ahead of them again now that Neymar has regained form.
“The sequence of matches and the repetition of the Champions League matches at high intensity has probably allowed him to pick up the pace,” said Bordeaux striker M'Baye Niang on Saturday.
There it is sharper and it has become decisive again.
So much the better for him, so much the better for Paris.
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