2024-01-15 08:13:08
In the cold of Lens, the PSG substitutes did not have the opportunity to warm up. Since the start of the season, Luis Enrique has gotten into the habit of sending them to practice on the sidelines shortly after the break to make his first changes around the hour mark. Sunday evening during the victory at Lens (0-2), he decided otherwise by making a single change. In the 62nd minute, Fabian Ruiz replaced Carlos Soler.
“I didn’t change because I really liked what I saw. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have changed a thing. But Carlos Soler had a yellow card and we couldn’t take any risks. But personally, I wouldn’t have changed anyone,” explained the Spanish technician after his team’s victory.
On the bench, Randal Kolo Muani, Gonçalo Ramos and Marco Asensio must have appreciated. But on the pitch, the Dembélé-Mbappé-Barcola trio set the tone. Since December 3 and a success on the pitch in Le Havre, these three have continued, as if Luis Enrique had found the formula which combines efficiency and balance.
“We have this connection more and more,” judges Barcola
“We have this connection more and more, even with our midfielders. We work a lot in training and it’s really good for the matches to come,” judged Bradley Barcola.
While everyone already has in mind the reception of Real Sociedad on February 14, in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League, can Luis Enrique still shake up the hierarchy? By then, Paris could have up to five matches to play, a sufficient amount of time on paper for the current losers to get their heads above water even if they leave with an obvious delay.
A truly fixed hierarchy?
Due to their versatility, Randal Kolo Muani and Marco Asensio do not appear completely abandoned. The Frenchman, although losing speed for a long time, keeps this ability at his best to strike, to take depth, within an attack in which he can demonstrate certain automatisms with his selection friends Ousmane Dembélé and Kylian Mbappé.
Most often used in the No. 9 position at PSG, a position allocated to the crack Bondy who seems very comfortable there, the former Nantes player must now establish himself as an alternative to Dembélé or Barcola on the wings. To do this, he will need to regain the confidence and aggressiveness that he lacked so much last week in the Coupe de France against the modest Revel team despite their two goals.
In another style, Asensio, technically finer and who was able to be clinical in front of goal at the start of the season, can also be of service.
The future seems, on the other hand, darker for Gonçalo Ramos who was unable to find favor in the eyes of Enrique. Pure center forward, strong against the weak and almost never used against the strong, the former Benfiquiste does not appear as a first choice for his coach who, before Revel, had only made him play 6 minutes since a success against Monaco (5-2) on November 24, almost 8 games of waiting… An eternity which could extend a little longer.
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