The 5,000 spectators of the PSG - Le Havre match, Sunday July 12, got their money's worth. The stars of the Paris team offered them a deluge of goals by beating the Norman team 9 - 0.

"The feeling of playing a final, a ball in the belly." We didn't expect Neymar to shudder at the idea of ​​facing a Ligue 2 formation, far from the spotlight that he appreciates so much.

But after a four-month hiatus without competition, the Brazilian N. 10, who confided in Instagram, returned hungry. His state of mind, enhanced by a double (21st, 42nd sp), says a lot about that of his team, which is attacking a summer as exciting as it is historic.

PSG must play two finals in July (Coupe de France on 24, and Coupe de la Ligue on 31), then the final tournament to eight of the Champions League, with a quarter against Atalanta Bergamo on August 12.

Potentially, it's three trophies he can win in just five matches, all of this, at the time of his fiftieth birthday. In Le Havre, it was therefore for coach Thomas Tuchel to give rhythm to his players, to arrive in legs when it counts.

The German technician may have played two different teams in each period, and sent the message that the most important thing was to avoid injury, his players were too keen to prove that they had nothing lost their talent during the break caused by the pandemic.

Di Maria double passer

The "Fantastic Four", holders of the immense offensive power of PSG, have demonstrated that they were always in good spirits, in just 45 minutes which must have seemed very long to the Norman defenders.

Icardi, who has become indisputable since the departure of Edinson Cavani, achieved a double in his surface fox style (8th, 19th). Neymar replied, making his devastating kidney talk about his first goal.

Mbappé also displayed his speed, and he owes his achievement (29th) to his sense of anticipation on a big Norman error. Finally, Di Maria, if he did not score, managed two magnificent assists, each time from the outside of the foot.

In one period, the "Fantastic Four" played in accelerated the film of their super powers, and that is necessarily very promising for the future.

In the second half, the Paris replacements, with Verratti, Thiago Silva or Pablo Sarabia, continued the festival, even if, opposite, Hacmen coach Paul Le Guen also completely upset his eleven.

For you, audience

Idrissa Gueye (50th), Sarabia (52nd, 61st) and young Arnaud Kalimuendo (59th) worsened the mark to bring this match into another story, that of HAC, the dean of the French clubs, who had lost 9-0 against RC Paris in 1959, its biggest defeat ever suffered.

Definitely, it's a match for memories. It is also the first, in one of the European "Big Five" countries, to have welcomed spectators, in accordance with the rule of 5,000 people applied by the government since Saturday.

With 4,500 tickets left to the public, the grandstands of the Océane stadium (25,000 seats) remained very sparse, but it only took about fifty ultras - gathered in their turn, without mask, in the first period - to animate the stage and cover the cry of neighboring seagulls.

"I am delighted that football in France can resume in a popular way, with the public in the stadiums," noted, on the spot, the Minister Delegate for Sports Roxana Maracineanu, without excluding an increase in the number of spectators authorized in the stadiums at during the summer. The PSG, too, leaves Normandy with things to celebrate

With AFP

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