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Paris is determined to crush the championship
This start to the season is almost idyllic for PSG.
And the numbers speak for themselves: 22 goals scored in 4 official matches and the impression left of a real machine around a sparkling Mbappé-Neymar-Messi trio.
For his debut as club coach, Christophe Galtier is in the process of setting up a real collective with a 3-4-2-1 which is beginning to be well understood by his players.
With real solidity, fluidity in the sequences and a clinical finish.
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Neymar-Mbappé, the connection works again
They made people talk about them last week and they responded in the best possible way, on the pitch.
Neymar and Kylian Mbappé were involved in 6 of the 7 Parisian goals.
Sulky last Saturday, the French showed a much more radiant face, helped by his first goal scored in the… 9th second.
Author of a hat-trick in the end, Mbappé was notably served twice by… Neymar, with whom it was said to be cold.
The Brazilian has also been on a roll with multiple moves thanks to his game vision and passing quality, with three assists in total in addition to his brace.
When these two players evolve in this form, Paris can see far.
Vitinha in his line, the sides still present
One of the summer recruits, Vitinha is a real revelation in this Parisian team.
The Portuguese midfielder was quick to adapt well in the midfield alongside Verratti.
More offensive than the Italian, he has this ability to break the lines and combine well in short stints.
As for the side Nuno Mendes and Hakimi, they each delivered a decisive pass and were still constant poisons for the Lille defense.
FLOPS
Lille did not exist
While we expected a real test for PSG, this trip to Lille was finally a ride.
The fault of Lille quickly overwhelmed by the opposing technical quality.
If Paulo Fonseca had asked his men to press high and play quickly forward, the intentions of the Mastiffs were quickly undermined by the intensity put on by the Parisians.
The pressing was interesting in the first half hour but the Northerners quickly ran out of steam.
Losc executives failed
To hope to compete with PSG, Lille needed executives to match.
Except that they suffered like their teammates.
We can immediately think of Jose Fonte, who did not agree with his goalkeeper on the very first fatal action concluded by Mbappé.
Or to Benjamin André, so precious usually by his activity but who did not know how to take the Verratti-Vitinha duo.
As for Jonathan David, he did not really weigh offensively.