Vitinha would not have come out injured by Fabio, excluded on the spot, the evening would have been perfect for PSG, the undisputed leader of the French Championship and in battle order before facing Juventus Turin, author of a draw (1- 1) this Saturday August 3 on the field of Fiorentina, where she had rotated.
Christophe Galtier had for his part rested three holders (Sergio Ramos, Neymar and Nuno Mendes, returned in the 46th), after two in Toulouse (Hakimi, Kimpembe), half of the field players over the week, a good compromise.
After seven games and six victories, including the Champions Trophy, Paris presents a delicious record before the Champions League, which this Nantes-PSG will have partly summed up, with a new clean sheet (no goals conceded), a second 3-0 at outside in three days and above all an infernal Leo Messi - Kylian Mbappé duo, double passer (the Argentinian) and double scorer (the Frenchman).
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If the seven goals of the world champion do not tell us anything about him, apart from this curled right that he still masters just as well, the prominence of Messi in the team is new.
Paris scores an average of four goals per match in L 1 and if there is the form of Neymar, there is also the permanent inspiration and the disarming ease of the former Barcelonan to explain this gargantuan total.
Since August, Messi has been prodigious
The seven-time Ballon d'Or arrived a year late, but it was worth the wait.
The Pulga, which swallows the kilometers, has been prodigious since August, having just chained six tenures in L 1, for six assists and three goals.
He changes the life of PSG and after taking him out against Monaco, Galtier let him finish and the meeting in Toulouse and that in Nantes.
He is the second oldest outfield player (35) after Sergio Ramos (36) but the only one to have seen all the kick-offs on the field.
Obviously, these paces do him a world of good, even if he sometimes finds a post (Monaco) or lacks duels against Alban Lafont.
But he has fun, he lives again, he laughs more and more, like coming out of the Beaujoire tunnel after a joke from Marco Verratti.
The genius leaves his lamp at each match and as long as Neymar wants to keep his summer level, with Mbappé at his usual level, fever and magic can envelop this Paris as it crosses domestic and European games.
We will know, a little, already this Tuesday with the reception of Juve and it is always the same excitement with this PSG, which we submit to European judgment to refine ours.
By then, it will therefore be necessary to recover Vitinha, who has already imposed himself in the doublet which he forms with Marco Verratti in the middle of the reactor.
After six days and a mountain of play and goals, PSG managed to create a different atmosphere around them, an expectation that had disappeared lately.
It's time again to count the days until the return of the great epics.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, we can't wait.
MATCH SHEET
At the Beaujoire stadium, in Nantes
Half time: 1-0
Referee: M. Gaillouste
Goals:
Mbappé (18th, 54th), Mendes (68th)
Warnings:
Nantes: Pallois (33rd);
PSG: Bernat (45th + 2), Verratti (50th), Mbappé (57th), S. Ramos (69th).
Exclusion.
Nantes: Fabio (24th).
Nantes:
Lafont (cap.) - Castelletto (Corchia, 66th), Girotto, Pallois - Fabio, Moutoussamy (Doucet, 80th), Chirivella, Appiah - Guessand (Knepe Ganago, 66th), Blas (Achi Bouakline, 85th), Mohamed ( Coco, 80th).
Entr.
:
Kombouare.
PSG:
Donnarumma - Hakimi, Marquinhos (cap.), Kimpembe, Bernat (Mendes, 46th) - Danilo, Vitinha (Sanches, 33rd), Verratti
(S. Ramos, 62nd) – Messi, Mbappé (Neymar, 63rd), Sarabia (Ekitike, 71st).
Entr.
:
Gallier.