2023-11-11 21:43:54
For champagne football, we’ll come back. But for PSG, the important thing is elsewhere this Saturday evening: he will spend the next fortnight, international break requires, in the shoes of the leader, a first this season. The capital club can rub their hands and be satisfied with regaining their throne in Ligue 1, the place that is simply supposed to be theirs. A performance which bears the stamp of Gianluigi Donnarumma and Kylian Mbappé, who pretty much took care of everything: placing his team in orbit, putting the Stade de Reims under water before ending up martyring it with a hat-trick, the first of his season.
If this fifth consecutive victory in L1 with three goals scored is good for the head and confirms the idea that this PSG does not lose twice in a row, it was long and hard to obtain, while the outlines of a small Saturday ride had quickly taken shape. In the autumnal mildness of an Auguste-Delaune stadium which heated up the atmosphere, Kylian Mbappé was responsible, after only 180 seconds, for cutting the whistle to the Reims supporters who jeered at him and installing a mini-air conditioning in the middle of November.
At the end of a long and beautiful phase of possession with a Luis Enrique version of Barcelona accent, the French striker was on the receiving end of a fleeing cross from Dembélé to open the scoring with a nice volley with his foot . We thought Paris was launched, well into its pomp, ready to show that the slap received a few days earlier in Milan (2-1) was only an ugly memory already forgotten.
Donnarumma se transforme en Shiva
But a fantastic team from Stade de Reims took it upon themselves to remind us that they were not fourth in Ligue 1 by chance and that they were a nice advertisement for a very insipid French Championship. With a little desire, well-established playing precepts and real tactical discipline, Will Still’s men showed the way to other teams: yes, definitely, this PSG hates more than anything to be rushed, it hates having to endure the impressive pressure from their opponents.
Asphyxiated, Luis Enrique’s men experienced immense difficulties in building the game, persisting in starting from behind with the idea of playing cleanly. This could have played tricks on them if Kylian Mbappé had not adjusted his sights upon returning from the locker room and if Gianluigi Donnarumma had not transformed into Shiva. We can always criticize the Italian goalkeeper for sometimes taking reckless risks with his feet, but what he does with his hands is absolutely superb.
On his line, the Parisian goalkeeper is one of the world references and he demonstrated it again by repelling the attempts of Ito (22nd, 30th) or the supersonic strikes of Richardson (40th) and Munetsi (72nd) who still have to leave some traces this Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, Gonçalo Ramos must be wondering what he came to do in this Parisian mess. The Portuguese had the opportunity to score points in his long-distance match with the suspended Randal Kolo Muani. But his replacement at half-time in place of Vitinha seems above all to indicate that he has lost some after having passed through the meeting like a ghost. How hard it is to be an attacker in this PSG… Except when your name is Mbappé.
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