Seen and read about PSG in the French press this Wednesday January 22, 2025. The importance of the match against Manchester City, Achraf Hakimi, new PSG monster, the Enrique-Guardiola friendship…
In today's edition, The Team makes its headlines on the clash between the PSG et Manchester
City this evening in Champions League. The sports daily explains that the evening's poster is magnificent, much more than the ranking of the two most famous nouveau riche in European football, since the
PSG is 25th of the new Champions League after six days, and Manchester
City 22nd, in a competition in which the 24 best teams will continue to see the country. “ It is not really necessary to summarize the previous episodes to identify the problem: superior to its opponents four times out of six in C1, only dominated at Arsenal (0-2) and Bayern (0-1), which remains uninviting at the dawn of the arrival of another bigEuropeParis was not able to take the points that its domination deserved, because Kylian Mbappé is no longer there and the idea of a collective solution clashes with the reality of individual limits when the road risese », analysis
The Team. We are at the heart, here, of the bet of
PSG and his coach, for this season and for this Wednesday evening. Of course, if Stagger managed to double his number of goals in C1 (1 in 16 matches), the file would advance a little, already, but more than his future crown of champion of
Francewhich is beyond doubt and which will have a more marked collective signature than last season, it's true, it's the ability to Paris to go through the European winter without a European level scorer who will reinforce or sanction this option which is both technical and philosophical, launches the sports daily. City is not completely healed, its defense retains infinite generosity, but
Kevin De Bruyne put one foot in front of the other and
Phil Foot is much better. “ The uncertainty of qualification, the will of
PSG to shatter the reproach of its ineffectiveness, the return of City : all this promises a great evening to experience, which would resemble the Champions League much more than its rankingst”, concludes
The Team.
The sports daily also focuses on Achraf Hakimiundoubtedly the best player in the PSG this season. “ Rarely in the history of PSGa right-back has only been as influential in the game asAchraf Hakimi. In this 2024-2025 season, the Moroccan is the man from whom the danger comes. An influence which is based in particular on its athletic dimension. » The Moroccan international remains an extraordinary athlete, underlines The Team. The latter indicates that number 2 of PSG displays exceptional speed. “ Since the start of this Champions League, only Erling Haaland was flashed faster than
Judge (36.6 km/h versus 36.5). In this position, in Europealone Kyle Walker – before 2024-2025 – and Jeremie Frimpong
(Leverkusen) can undoubtedly compete in top speed. » This running speed finds its origin in its massive, defined thighs, and the great purity of its supports, analyzes The Team. « In the duel, after his training in Real Madrid,
Judge was not known for his harshness. His passages in Germany (Dortmund) but especially in Italy (Inter
Milan) transformed it. » A muscular physique that he works alongside a physiotherapist and a personal physical trainer at Parisadvances the sports daily. What stands out is his volume of races (10.5 kilometers on average per match this season in C1) but above all this rare ability to multiply sprints at high intensity, concludes
The Team.
For his part, The Parisian also evokes this crucial shock for the rest of the European season of
PSG and of Manchester City. During this meeting, a qualification is almost assured for the winner and the possibility of a fiasco for the beaten one, launches
Dominique Sévérac. « So, this
Paris-City promises to be a 64th final, before the 32nd next week and perhaps finally the 16th if they manage to integrate the first 24 in the ranking. » In a new eight-match formula which consists of eliminating only twelve teams out of the 36 entered, and that two of the three richest clubs in the Champions League are there, sounds like a bug, launches the Ile-de-France daily. “ Paris-Manchester
City traces the trailer for a blockbuster with two teams with identical game ideas, with similar faults, with two coaches more friends than rivals, resolutely offensive and persevering, capable of changing a detail which reconfigures the whole and dimensions another team at the bottom. ” In a
Parc electric, filled with stars of
NBA and fashion week, the suspense, the walk of two tightrope walkers advancing above their own abyss but also the possibility of a masterpiece of the game make the evening magical and grandiose, a shot of emotions induced by a rise in seasonal fever. This is really not the time to seize up the machine here or there, concludes Dominique Sévérac.
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-The Ile-de-France daily also evokes the friendship that binds Luis Enrique has
Pep Guardiola. A friendship born during
Olympic Games of Barcelona in 1992, in the team ofSpain who will win the gold medal. The Parisian indicates that the relationship between the coach of PSG and that of Manchester
City reached its peak when Luis Enrique signed at FC Barcelona in 1996. They played together for five years at Barça. Over the years, the two coaches continued to see each other, with their respective families. A friendship that withstands the years, launches the Ile-de-France daily. When Pep Guardiola
leaves his position as coach FC Barcelona in 2014, it was he who suggested that Barcelona leaders look into Luis Enrique. Since then, the two coaches have never stopped praising each other publicly. “ This Wednesday evening, at Princes Parkthere will be tension, joys, and perhaps tears. But there will also be smiles and hugss,” concludes The Parisian.
The Team also evokes the duel Luis Enrique-Pep Guardiolatwo coaches guided by the same obsession with play and control. From their common passage to FC Barcelonathe duo finds themselves above all around the same all-consuming passion for tactics. In the locker room, discussions are incessant around the choices of coaches. At the time, Luis Enrique is impressed by the attitude of his partner, who analyzes everything from his position in the middle and spends his matches insulting, replacing, directing, moving forward in daily sporting life. The coaches of PSG and of
Manchester City converge on several points. “ The desire to master everything, on and around the field. Who can give their colleagues the feeling that they alone are capable of finding the solution. And threatens their employer with the threat that if they don't pull all the strings, they can slam the door.. » Besides that, the two men cultivate some notable differences, says
The Team. « Luis is impulsive, Pep is more reflective. Pep analyzed things a lot, he is in perpetual research, hence the changes in his staff over time. Luishe likes to work with a core of trust, very little turnover” , underlines Lawrencecoach at farmhouse between 1990 and 2006.
