2023-08-27 11:28:08
Believe it or not, the shock of the third day of Ligue 1 opposes the eleventh to the fourteenth. Seen from this angle alone, the PSG-Lens which is played this Saturday August 26 at the Parc des Princes is not very sexy. And yet, it has all the ingredients for a spicy encounter between two leaders who have not yet launched their season and share the same paradox: having real guarantees in the game without knowing success.
On the pitch, the attacking and possession football of Luis Enrique’s Paris is already there (more than 75% over the two games), the high pressing imposed by his team seems promising and the first two tenures of Warren Zaire- Emery and Manuel Ugarte made an impression. But Lens comes to the Park with “the ambition to achieve a result”, in the words of Franck Haise and to shake up these certainties.
“We will have to be very quick and find solutions very quickly because it is a team that presses a lot and, if they ever have the ball, they will create a superiority so we have to be very careful, warned Luis Enrique at a press conference on Friday. . I think one of the keys will be to put the intensity. »
The promise of Mbappé and Dembele
After two draws against Lorient (0-0, August 12) and Toulouse (1-1, August 19), Paris is therefore expected on the offensive front. If Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembélé should start the meeting, there is still doubt about the presence at kick-off of Gonçalo Ramos who was training indoors on Friday due to muscle discomfort.
Coming into play in the second half at the Stadium last week, the two French stars made their opponents suffer, brought verticality and offered some promises. In particular those that they were the only ones to be able to solve two major problems of this team since the start of the championship: to score for the first time in the game and to ignite the meeting.
In just over 40 minutes, the former Barcelona man managed three times more dribbles than any other player on the pitch, when his pal scored a self-induced penalty. It will be for “Kyky” the moment of reunion with the Park and its supporters who will also have the pleasure of celebrating the new recruits (Skriniar, Hernandez, Ugarte, Dembélé, Asensio, Ramos, Ndour, Tenas) during a show planned before the meeting, from 8 p.m.
After a disappointing first episode at home, Paris must finally set fire. A few days after the episode of the secret ballot vote for the captaincy and the renewal of Marquinhos as armband wearer, a first victory would have the merit of bringing a little more serenity before a last week of transfer window agitated in the direction of arrivals (Kolo Muani and Barcola), or maybe departures.
Since his arrival at PSG in early July, Luis Enrique has made a habit of recalling that observers and club supporters would see in “the facts and on the ground what he thought”. And on Friday, during the traditional press conference on the eve of the match against Lens, the formula once again came back to the mouth of the Spanish technician. So we take him at his word and we expect this PSG to finally be more effective in the area of truth.
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