If the superiority of the PSG in Ligue 1 is no doubt, the defeat in Dijon (2-1) last Friday is a task. This is the third defeat of PSG this season in the league after that against Rennes (1-2) and against Reims (0-2). With three wins in three games in the Champions League before receiving Bruges on Wednesday night at the Parc des Princes, Paris Saint-Germain knows how to raise its level of play. Is this difference in involvement between Ligue 1 and the Champions League significant? a lack of power and authority from Thomas Tuchel?
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The goal of PSG is clearly to win the Champions League but according to Ambre Godillon, coach Thomas Tuchel is not the only one responsible for these defeats "surprises" in Ligue 1: "Against Angers (4-0), against Nice (4-1), against Bruges (5-0), against OM (4-0), they stack four games with more than four goals each time, I think it's human and logical to have Some form of sufficiency and overconfidence.The coach has necessarily his share of responsibility, but in this game in Dijon, his responsibility is mostly tactical.His crafts have imbalanced the team.
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Tuchel must manage equals, impatience and moods
Given the competition and the density of his workforce, Thomas Tuchel must often opt for strong choices. According to Laurent Jaoui, the main issue for Tuchel is above all managerial: "I do not think there is a lack of authority on the part of Tuchel.His job we know, it is not necessarily good to play these guys at football because they know how to do it.The problem for him is to know how to manage the equals, impatience, moods of each other.It is especially management and psychology that hard training. "
If the involvement of Parisian players can be questioned, we must give credit to the performance of Dijon, as recalled by Ambre Godillon "The temptation is easy to salute this failure by the prism of Paris Saint-Germain but it is also necessary salute the audacity and courage in front of Dijon players. "
Javier Prieto Santos, unenthusiastic about the management of Thomas Tuchel, says: "The performances are 'made up' by soloists like Neymar and Mbappé, and I find that when he begins to tinker and tries to emulate his ideal that is Guardiola, it does not succeed him, he is strong with the strong and very weak with the weak ones. " According to him, "even with substitute substitutes, this team must beat Dijon."
Was this defeat expected?
In a pre-match press conference against Dijon, Thomas Tuchel said the match against Dijon was "a trap match" before adding "I think it's in this kind of match that we have to build Amre Godillon shares the words: "The main gap in the PSG is not in quality and in its ambitions but rather in the way it sees itself and where it is thinks too beautiful. It's a team that prefers to shine than to suffer, it's factual. "
It is in February, from the knockout stages of the Champions League that PSG is expected. According to Laurent Jaoui, losing games early in the season is not necessarily unacceptable for the future: "Start a little in the hard with accidents course to be in peak form when the Champions League will start for good This is another strategy, but in the meantime I think it's important to involve everyone, and this team should be scheduled for the month of February. "