Who is the Boss ?
In a team that counts in its ranks Lionel Messi and Neymar, not to mention the seriously injured Sergio Ramos or Marquinhos, captain since the departure of Thiago Silva, in 2020, not easy to claim the title of boss.
“
It would be daring,
” said Kylian Mbappé on Sunday, on
Amazon Prime Video
.
But there are signs that never fail.
While waiting for "Ney" and Ramos to leave the infirmary or for Messi to become Messi again, Mbappé, traces his route.
And he often pulls PSG in his wake.
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Tuesday, during the victory against Bruges (4-1), Paris overall achieved "
a good match
", says the former Monegasque.
This time, more than a cover-up, he put his team on the right track.
A good team.
“
We were better in the game, more concerned, there was more control.
There are two and a half months without the Champions League to work well, to develop our automatisms and our tactics,
”he said correctly on
RMC
after the meeting, giving a speech of responsibility, a speech… of a boss, don't mind.
Pleased to offer
The fact of offering the penalty to a Messi lacking in confidence is also part of this logic.
Mbappé, always the eye on the future and the C1 objective.
“
We're going to need Messi.
It's still Messi.
We're going to need him during the season and I'm sure he'll help us when the important deadlines come up.
The most important thing is that he arrives in full confidence for these matches.
Afterwards, he'll give it back to us.
It's good for him that he ends up with two goals, but also for us in the future,
”he said, far from the wars that we have seen in the past at PSG, between Neymar Jr and Edinson Cavani for example.
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It's called the sense of responsibility.
“
Whenever I thought I could do everything on my own, we didn't win,
” he said on Sunday, claiming not to be “
selfish
”.
He is not.
On the other hand, he is ready to do anything to make PSG win, in what may be his last season in Red and Blue.
“It's not my goal to show who is the boss or not. "
Kylian Mbappé
“
I'm trying to help the team. If I'm in good spirits, that necessarily helps the team. But it is not my objective to show who is the boss or not… I try to help my team as much as possible, like that, they will give it back to me so that I can perform well too,
”he said on Tuesday evening. , about this boss costume that he refuses to put on. And to add, on
Canal +
: "
We did a full performance, it was much better. We can still improve but we have taken a small step forward. The balance sheet? We need to better manage our weak times, which are perhaps much too weak. We have a match management that is not always adequate with the high level. New players had to adapt, some arrived along the way, some arrived with different states of form. We have two months before the round of 16 to work.
And God knows there is work to be done, even if this success looks promising.
With Mbappé at the helm, the PSG ship can sail with certainty.
Sunday, the crack of Bondy will try to continue his momentum against a club he knows well, AS Monaco, the team that saw him hatch in the eyes of the world before a rich transfer to Paris, in 2017. Since then, the great hope has grown.