PSG's strong man in the league since the start of the season, Bradley Barcola is struggling to confirm the hopes placed in him on the European scene. His performances in the Champions League are worrying.
Top scorer in Ligue 1 with 8 goals since the start of the season, Bradley Barcola is undoubtedly Paris Saint-Germain's biggest player in the league. Ultra impactful and effective on French lawns, the Blues striker, on the other hand, is much more discreet in the Champions League. Against Girona, Arsenal, PSV and Atlético, Bradley Barcola remained silent. Worse, he had very little influence on his team's play and did not create much difference. Enough to encourage caution regarding the explosion of the 24-year-old left winger at the highest level and it is not Daniel Riolo who will say the opposite.
“Bambi, in the championship, there is real progress. I find that he is a player who is starting to show things, but in the Champions League he does not yet have the level” regrets the After Foot journalist, who was not even the most severe with Bradley Barcola after his failed performance against the Colchoneros. On the Canal+ set, Bertrand Latour took out the sulfate gun to light the former OL prodigy. “We cannot ask a player who almost got loaned to Servette Genève to be the decisive player of a club that wants to win the Champions League” said the former journalist from La Chaîne L'Equipe, full of irony and sarcasm against the Paris SG striker.
Dave Appadoo refuses to bury Bradley Barcola
It is obviously not a question of burying a player whose qualities are obvious and who has established himself as a starter at PSG and the French team. But Bradley Barcola will quickly have to vary his game and find new impetus to bounce back according to Dave Appadoo, more nuanced in the Evening Team. “Barcola is read a little by the goalkeepers and by the defenders. He came through once or twice, but he's a guy who needs to create a lot more chances for you, he's missing some in this match. Even in his body language, sometimes you feel like he's not in the game anymore. And in his placement, he never closes at the far post on crosses coming from the right” commented the France Football journalist.
Not spared either by L'Equipe, which gave him a nasty rating of 4/10 in today's edition, the native of Villeurbanne is in tough times and will have to find the mental and footballing resources to bounce back and finally break out in the League Champions, as he does so well in Ligue 1.
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