Champions League: Real / PSG, theater before the match

Virginie Phulpin 07:24, March 09, 2022

Real Madrid-PSG is tonight in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

The Parisians, winners 1 to 0 in the first leg, will try to maintain their lead to go to the quarter-finals.

With Kylian Mbappé who should be able to play well.

Tonight, it will obviously be football, but before the match, this poster is also theater. 

Before the Ballon d'Or, there are the Molières.

We recognize a match like no other by the dramatization that precedes the meeting.

And there we are served.

It's part of the game, and it's also what causes the little tingles in the heart and legs before such a poster, at least as much as the music of the Champions League.

The only one nominated for the leading role is Kylian Mbappé, you guessed it.

It has become so important that when it comes to the attacker, everything goes all over the place in a fraction of a second.

He was injured in training on Monday, and we were treated to a general overreaction.

Some even spoke of chilling images for a crushed foot.

Of course it's embarrassing for Kylian Mbappé, but chilling, no.

Football training and its risks, finally.

But it must be said that PSG without Mbappé is not exactly the same as with him, to use an understatement.

So yesterday, when he got off the plane in Madrid, everyone scrutinized his way of walking.

One foot, then the other.

He doesn't limp!!

Calm down, it's going to be fine.

He participated in training as normal last night, and he will be there tonight. 

There is a bit of bluffing too, on both sides for that matter.

Not from the player, but from PSG, yes, necessarily a little.

The club leaves a slight doubt on the state of form of its star, and he is right.

It's part of the game, of a successful play, these pre-match scenarios.

Not fully revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

And when Madrid's Luka Modric says that at Real, no one has spoken about the possible injury of Kylian Mbappé, what do you think it is?

Bluff too.

That sounds a little wrong, that, Luka.

Especially since at the same time he says he dreams of playing with Mbappé.

In case someone has forgotten the passes of arms between Real and PSG for a possible transfer.

It can be annoying, this permanent staging before a poster of this level.

But I find on the contrary that it spices up the match, this open-air theater, between operetta, pretense and savior costumes.

Even the decor is important.

Santiago Bernabeu, one of the biggest stadiums in the world, but with scaffolding everywhere for renovation.

Yesterday the Madrid press described his lair as hell for the opponents.

Another urban legend.

PSG have already played in Madrid, and we heard more Parisian supporters than locals.

Real being up against the wall, there will still be a big atmosphere tonight.

But not necessarily a hell, as soon as we have swapped the brigadier and the 3 three blows for the whistle and the kick-off.

Without bluffing.

and we heard the Parisian supporters more than the locals.

Real being up against the wall, there will still be a big atmosphere tonight.

But not necessarily a hell, as soon as we have swapped the brigadier and the 3 three blows for the whistle and the kick-off.

Without bluffing.

and we heard the Parisian supporters more than the locals.

Real being up against the wall, there will still be a big atmosphere tonight.

But not necessarily a hell, as soon as we have swapped the brigadier and the 3 three blows for the whistle and the kick-off.

Without bluffing.