Paris (AFP)

"DIM", bam, boom, Paris holds his trio: Angel Di Maria, Mauro Icardi and Kylian Mbappé, sparkling against Marseille on Sunday (4-0), showed a total complicity in the Paris attack, making almost Neymar and Edinson Cavani for ancient history.

The "MCN" of Mbappé-Cavani-Neymar is dormant, long live the "DIM"! In the face of the repeated injuries of the Brazilian star and the Uruguayan pet, Thomas Tuchel did not take long to find the key to the offensive animation of his team.

And to say that against the OM, it was the first time that Mbappé, Di Maria and Icardi were tenured together ... Unimaginable, so much complicity is obvious.

Doubled for the French, doubled for the former Inter player, and almost tripled in his own way - the assists - for the former Madrilenian: the statistics are clear, sharp, fatal.

They confirm a perfect complementarity, between the speed of the world champion, the vision of the game of Di Maria, and the art of the goal of Icardi.

When the latter does not make the perfect call to the penalty box, as on the first goal (10th), it is the French who proposes in the depth or the second post, as on his two achievements (34th, 44th) .

And each time, it is Di Maria who adapts his gesture to the situation, with a disconcerting ease. Sometimes from a center of the left foot to his compatriot, scorer in two stages, sometimes of a delivery to the ground of the right towards "Kyky", sometimes of an illumination of outside left foot in the interval, copy in conformity a goal already seen from the side of Bruges Wednesday (5-0).

Brugge, precisely where the association was best seen, from the start of Mbappé: four goals followed, including three for the young French striker, and one for the center forward Argentine.

- Frightening statistics -

The account is fast: since the arrival of Icardi in Paris, September 2 at the end of transfer window, the trio scored ... 22 goals. The last thirteen of the PSG? Six for Icardi, five for Mbappé, two for Di Maria.

Even if Neymar, injured at least until mid-November, will probably have no trouble finding his place in the middle of the trio, these statistics seem much more worrying for Edinson Cavani.

The Matador was finally entitled to twenty minutes of play, his first since his return from injury, but, as a symbol, it is on the left wing that it has evolved, as if the area of ​​repair had become already the preserve of the other South American.

"It's difficult to get into a team that gives a lot of intensity, admitted Tuchel Friday, even before the evening recital.It is important that players who score maintain confidence.It is the challenge, but it's difficult because everyone wants to play and everyone is used to playing. "

Mbappé had almost lost the habit: his injury to a thigh had led the German coach to be cautious, confining his nugget to the bench for several games. Remonte, Mbappé showed in three appearances - and seven goals - that it was undeniably possible a titular, as he had pointed out in interview Tuesday in Belgium.

He is reassured, he is one. "Everyone knows I want to play with Kylian," Tuchel calmed before the game.

Two goals, his 4th and 5th in a "clasico", shock become his garden - he scored in the last four games against OM - this should be enough for the ambitions of the young man in the short term.

Those of the trio "DIM", they seem limitless.

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