2023-09-30 19:40:09
We knew that there was no longer a season, that a seventh day of Ligue 1 scheduled for the start of October could, without it surprising anyone, be played under a blazing sun and a summer temperature. PSG’s trip to Clermont this Saturday afternoon confirmed that there were no longer any benchmarks, either, in this Ligue 1 capable of giving rise to scenarios just as disturbing as the weather. Since the ranking no longer means anything, and a red lantern has, in his courage and his intentions, sometimes little to envy of a reigning champion, a minimum wage like Clermont and its 22 million budget can therefore now rival one of the biggest budgets on the football planet (€700 million).
At a time when the Professional Football League has just launched its call for tenders for TV rights, of course no one will complain about the spectacle offered by the two teams this Saturday on the Gabriel-Montpied lawn. In any case not the 10,757 spectators at the Auvergne venue who, for the first time this season, saw their players not return to the locker room empty-handed at home. Nor, of course, Pascal Gastien, who undoubtedly found his reference match against this PSG that all of France found more and more impressive. Luis Enrique, like everyone else, will have experienced a crazy afternoon, one of those that makes the eyes sparkle and the thrill vibrate. Not sure that he got as much pleasure as the stands during this crazy opposition.
Paris stumbles upon a Mory Diaw, former Titi, of great days
A boxing match, comparable to a heavyweight fight, where each of the two teams, with their arguments, almost went blow for blow. Of course, with the return of Mbappé, recovered from his ankle injury, and the presence of the two other Blues, Randal Kolo Muani and Ousmane Dembélé, at his side in this hybrid and changing pattern (4-2-4 and 4- 3-3), Paris seemed for a long time to win on points. But technique and talent are sometimes balanced against will and courage. Paris may have led the dance, taken possession for its own account, but it has sometimes and too often flirted with the knockout.
The strike (19th) then the recovery from Dembélé (40th), the crushed strike from Kolo Muani at the penalty point, the duel of Mbappé lost against Diaw (31st), his strike on the post (53rd), the ball stolen from Gonçalo Ramos (82nd) or Danilo’s header (90th + 1) certainly leave the impression – correct – that Paris would have done the job if it had not fallen on a Mory Diaw, the former Titi, of the great days (10 stops). But, in a meeting where the absences of Zaire-Emery and Ugarte weighed on the midfield, it is not encouraging to say that at the final whistle, Gianluigi Donnarumma, author of incredible saves (47th, 53rd) , will have been the most decisive Parisian of the meeting.
A result which sounds like a halt after the successes against OM (4-0) and Dortmund (2-0). But who has the merit, if he must have any, of giving a little more salt to the pipe-breaking trip that awaits Paris, Wednesday evening at Saint-James Park. After a mixed start, Newcastle have just won three times, taking the scalp of Manchester City in the League Cup and passing a whopping eleven goals (without conceding) to their last three opponents. .
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