This Saturday, Paris and Dortmund have already launched their Champions League semi-final first leg duel remotely, with PSG defending at least as poorly as the Germans a few hours earlier, defeated by RB Leipzig (4-1). . Here, it is the penultimate attack in Ligue 1 which allowed itself to bully a Marquinhos – Danilo hinge at bay, with special mention for the Portuguese, overtaken each time against Le Havre. Luis Enrique’s coaching looked more like a management of effort and playing time than a desire to win.
Ousmane Dembélé, Bradley Barcola and Kylian Mbappé, who everyone imagines at kick-off on Wednesday, each played 45 minutes while captain Marquinhos was soaked in the pouring rain for a full hour. The problem with this necessary rotation lies in the reliance on depressed players, like Randal Kolo Muani, who are not visible enough to be truly bad. He disappeared, even present.
The weight of this nullity must be put into perspective. The weekend can still dedicate the club from the capital to champion of France for the twelfth time in its history if Monaco loses or draws in Lyon this Sunday at 7 p.m. It is always better to be champion while playing but the good news will travel with them to PSG on Tuesday in the Ruhr. In addition to the rest of the warriors, the partners of Warren Zaire-Emery, extended until 2029, had their heads elsewhere, focused on their big affair of the spring, the Champions League. Achraf Hakimi’s reduction in the score twelve minutes from time reignited the suspense and the Ultras’ chants and undoubtedly pushed Gonçalo Ramos, already on the verge of 3-3, to equalize in added time. The Portuguese scores points, match after match.
An absolute refusal of defeat
The reaction of the public to this 3-3 but especially of the Parisian bench with a technical staff in effusion, as after the qualification in Barcelona in the quarter-final of the C1, tells what this PSG is, its character, its intimate and his unwavering faith in his star or destiny. There’s really something happening this year that observers of this team and this club haven’t seen before, not for a very long time.
This eleven chosen by Luis Enrique against Le Havre will in no way resemble that of the European Cup and even if, out of facetiousness, he wanted to bring it back to the semi-final, he would not present himself with the same state of mind against Borussia. In other words this Saturday, there is a greater chance that we will have seen the real Dortmund in Leipzig and a bad double of PSG than the opposite. The Norman leaders absolutely did not want this meeting to be postponed as had been discussed. It looks like their intuition was rewarded. PSG, escorted by its moral qualities, its absolute refusal of defeat, will present itself on Wednesday in the Champions League nourished by the scenario of this Paris-Le Havre. He shouldn’t have counted, or maybe for nothing, and now he’s going to give wings to the Parisians. That’s always the case.
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