2023-05-07 23:24:03
It is not a question of gargling, of shouting at the exploit and of advancing that the week ended in beauty. But the evening in Paris, and this is not nothing in the somewhat crazy, sometimes even lunar, context of the last few days, found a hint of normality this Sunday, May 7 in Troyes. There was, on paper, nothing else to hope for from the leader of the championship than success on the lawn of such a weak Estac, in lack of success at home since August 2022 and under-infusion waiting for an inevitable return to Ligue 2.
But in the absence of a suspended Messi for skipping school, a still-injured Neymar and also a few others, Paris, at least, got the job done, which given their recent outings, including that insignificant last week against Lorient (1-3), constitutes an improvement that looks like a return to normal for a collective that seemed to have lost its soul and its certainties.
Another guilty release at the end of the match
The success gleaned at the Aube stadium obviously does not ensure that the capital club has resumed its journey on the highway of its eleventh title and that no obstacle will complicate its task during the last four days. .
The culpable release at the end of the match, Danilo’s lack of commitment combined with Donnarumma’s poor judgment on the reduction of Chavalerin’s score (82nd) are all clues that remind us that Paris is not cured of all its ills. . And that even one of the worst students in the class can come and pull his ear a little when he gives up.
Mbappé joins Lacazette
But Paris, and this is the main thing, took care of the basics, in particular under the impetus of a Kylian Mbappé who was not unaware, before the kick-off, that Alexandre Lacazette, author of a quadrupled with OL, had just robbed him of first place in the scoring charts. It only took eight minutes for the Parisian striker to score his 24th goal and join the Rhodanien at the head of the championship triggers.
Faced with Trojans long grouped together in their last thirty meters, Paris will have long given this meeting the air of a training session as it will have had to play the pass at ten to crack the Trojan wall. Fifteen shots in the first period, sixteen on the way back from the locker room… it had been ages since the players from the capital had had the opportunity to try their luck so much.
The anger of the supports
After Mbappé, only Vitinha, in two stages after a millimeter service from Verratti, then Ruiz will have found the net against a Gauthier Gallon who will have played a large part in the Trojan cages. Despite some shivers, especially during Donnarumma’s well-felt interventions in front of Baldé, Paris will have freed itself from pressure from Lens and regained a six-step lead at the top of Ligue 1.
What to see the future with a little more serenity than in recent days. Not yet enough, no doubt, to reconcile him with some of his supporters. This Sunday, nearly two hundred of them remained at the gates of the stadium, in retaliation for the demonstrations of some in front of Neymar during the week. “Direction resignation” even sang the Parisian parking lot, while a banner was deployed on which one could read: “Nasser, a president who prefers greenbacks to his supporters. Welcome to PSG. “A club that has regained some semblance of normality.
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