2023-10-05 11:18:18
Ousmane does not start on his return to France after hastily leaving Barça, leaving, yes, a place on the right wing for him to appear Lamine Yamalthe 16-year-old who has astonished in his thunderous emergence into the elite.
The games go by (there are now eight, six in the League and two in the Champions League) and there is no sign of Dembélé. Not a single goal has been scored. He has barely left two shots on goal, a sign that his productivity does not improve in this transition from Barcelona to Paris after ignoring Xavi, who wanted to make him the best in the world in his position. “I don’t hold a grudge against him,” said the Barça coach, indicating that Ousmane’s departure opened the opportunity for others. And Lamine has been the fastest and earliest to catch it.
“I am the first person responsible and the last one”
PSG coach
PSG, meanwhile, is walking in that same erratic direction. They are fifth in the domestic tournament, with 12 points, two behind the leader, Monaco, far from the Champions League places, and they come out shaken from that match that had a geopolitical air. He cannot find the thread that provides stability to Luis Enrique’s recently started project. “It is true that we have to improve, without a doubt,” the coach acknowledged.
The second worst defeat in the Qatari era
“I am the first person responsible and the last one”, Luis Enrique has assured to exonerate his players from the setback they experienced in England. The defeat, according to the Asturian coach, was “fair, but the result is excessive.” It had been 22 years since PSG had conceded four goals in a group stage match. “The attitude of the players was there and the idea of what we wanted to do was optimal. Maybe I saw another game,” said the Asturian coach.
But this defeat is similar to the one Deportivo de La Coruña gave them in March 2001 (4-3) in Riazor to find the last precedent. In the Qatari era, it is the second worst defeat in the Champions League, only surpassed, obviously, by the 6-1 that Barça gave them at the Camp Nou (March 2017), prologue to Neymar’s departure to the Parc des Princes.
Untouchable for Luis Enrique
The same thing happens to Dembélé, who made the return trip to France this summer while the Brazilian emigrated to Saudi Arabia. He is not fine. He seems out of focus, imprecise and without spark. He has been in official competition for 600 minutes, but it is not proving decisive.
It won’t be due to lack of confidence. Not even due to injuries since he has not suffered a single physical mishap in Paris, where he is untouchable for Luis Enrique, who has given him the right wing of an attack that brought together, for example, against Newcastle, up to four forwards with little defensive spirit.
Ousmane was accompanied by Mbappé, who acted as a midfielder with complete freedom, and Kolo Muani, who occupied the left flank. The three behind the nine, a task carried out by the Portuguese Gonçalo Ramos. Lots of forward, but little forcefulness. The only Parisian goal had to be scored by a defender: Lucas Hernández.
“Why this system? I am the coach, I decide. We do not deserve this result. Our objective is to reach the round of 16. It is a difficult group, we know it, we remain second, the last games will be fun,” he said Luis Enrique to justify the choice of this daring tactical drawing. “I thought this system was best for the team. In fact, I still do.”
Debate about Ousmane
While criticism is beginning to appear towards the poor production of Dembélé, who was already under suspicion before Newcastle’s 4-1, and of Mbappé, whom the French newspaper ‘L Equipe’ suspends with a dishonorable two. “He played a disappointing first half,” is the analysis made about the great star of the PSG project, who was happy because he had Ousmane at his side, with whom he built a great relationship during his match in the French team.
The former Barça forward now has 600 official minutes in the PSG shirt: 0 goals, 2 shots on goal and 1 assist
In the countryside, however, they are not yet connected. Dembélé is given a 4, also suspended, a portrait of a defensively paralyzed team, to whom the English team punished his weakness. Eight shots from Newcastle, four on goal, four goals. More efficiency is impossible.
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Just what has been asked of the former Barça forward since he landed last summer at the Parc des Princes after executing his termination clause, set at 50 million euros. But not all of them went to Barça, who earned 35.4.
He feels, yes, committed to what Luis Enrique asks of him (he is the forward who runs the most kilometers), but then everything is buried by his lack of aim. 600 minutes, 0 goals, 1 assist define PSG’s Dembélé.
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