EDITORIAL
>> Dominated for 80 minutes by a Real Madrid far superior, the PSG managed to return to 2-2, ensuring the first place of the group. Between the scenario and the episode of the VAR, this draw could prove to be founder for the rest of the season. Two goals in ten minutes: the PSG is finally his "remontada", which is more against a big Europe. Our editorialist Virginie Phulpin is even disturbed by this scenario quite unusual for French clubs.
"I'm a little disturbed, I've made habits with the best French clubs in the Champions League.When there is a big poster, the opponent does not play very well and ends up draw or win because It's a lot more realistic, and we're lamenting it, we know it by heart, we've seen the exact opposite, it's a little surprising, we're coming out of our zone of trust.
A much better Real Madrid, lost Parisians who walk in the field and try nothing but individual solutions. During three quarters of the match, we saw a few classes of difference between the two teams anyway. When the best player of the Real is Karim Benzema, the striker of the two goals of his team, and that of PSG is Keylor Navas, the goalkeeper at 10 parades, a priori is that it does not go very well in the field and that Parisians are ultra dominated.
We were getting ready to find our good old Pavlovian reflexes of arbitration criticism. Because we saw yesterday a grotesque masterpiece of video arbitration. Penalty for PSG, red card for Madrid goalkeeper. Wait, look at the pictures. Oh no, no penalty, no red card, the VAR, the video referee, spotted a mini Parisian fault two minutes before, we cancel everything. The other years, we would have remained there, and we would have whined for days on the fact that Real Madrid is favored by the decisions of the referee. But there we can not even.
The PSG holds its remontada upside down
All the kept proportions. It was a group match, the Parisians were already qualified for the 8th finals before playing it. But there is a bit of that. Real Madrid led 2-0 to 10 minutes from the end, and PSG came back in two minutes. Income from nowhere, because we do not really know where the players were wandering last night. We could have talked about Mbappé the individualist perhaps disturbed because Zidane had told him his flame a few hours before. We could have been sorry that Neymar started the match on the substitutes' bench. And he's going to make his head, and he's going to want to leave again. But the Parisians have cut the grass under the feet of everyone by snatching this miraculous draw.
Has Paris St Germain become a great, realistic team even when it's bad? I would not go so far, it will have to ask some questions about the level of play anyway. But it does not only happen to others, so what kind of scenario? It's good to reverse the roles "