Former central defender of Monaco, Rolland Courbis attributes the good statistics of the Monegasque club against PSG mainly to the merit of the Rock team whose culmination was the title of champion of France 2017.
Supporting statistics, Monaco is the team that has given PSG the most trouble for the past ten years.
What inspires you?
Rolland Courbis.
It seems logical to me that the main competitors of PSG have been Monaco, Lyon and Marseille since the start of the QSI era.
I don't need statistics to make this observation.
On the other hand, they bring a certain precision.
How to interpret these data, specifically concerning Monaco?
Monaco managed to build an extraordinary team, to the point of preventing PSG from being champions in 2017. From my point of view, when PSG are not champions with the means at their disposal, it is an anomaly, which does not detract from the merit of Montpellier, Lille and Monaco.
That an accident occurs every ten years, okay… But not three in a period of 10 years.
Because it comes down to not being champion one out of three times.
In recent years, how has Monaco been able to compete so much with Paris?
You have to realize which team was Monaco the year of the title.
In front, Falcao and Mbappé in full emergence.
In the middle, Fabinho, Bakayoko and Bernardo Silva.
Behind, side Sidibé and Mendy, centrals Glik and Jemerson, and Subasic in goal.
That the leaders of Monaco are businessmen, there is no question of questioning it.
But when you have built a team capable of going to the semi-finals of the Champions League, by leaving Guardiola's Manchester City, why not keep it at 90% for at least another season?
And what's more, let Mbappé go to PSG?
At the time, I thought it was a joke.
Closer to home, there is also Monaco, who won 2-0 at the Parc des Princes in February last year...
The credit for this victory goes to the coach, Kovac.
Although Pochettino deserves his side to be scratched.
Monaco had put in place an anti-Mbappé plan by consolidating the right side of their defense.
However, Mbappé has never left the left side.
Even if it had been a game with overtime, he would have played it on the left.
The idea of having him swapped around a bit, it was too much of a hassle, it seems…