PSG has impressed collectively against Saint-Etienne in the League Cup. - Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP

  • After its successive setbacks, PSG was low profile in its preseason announcements.
  • Today, however, he seems sure of his strength and is not afraid to display it publicly.
  • It remains to be seen if all this will not fly away during the Champions League 8th finals.

At the Parc des Princes,

To be completely honest, the idea of ​​this paper had not jumped to our faces when watching PSG having fun with Saint-Etienne like a cat fiddling with its prey before delivering the fatal blow. No, it was afterwards, during Thomas Tuchel's press conference, that it made a tilt. Something like "Ah shit then ... It would not be the confidence that emerges from this PSG there? ". Weird ...

In any case, this seems to emerge from Thomas Tuchel's speech when he talks about his toy 2019-2020. “We are better than last year because we are together. We have players on the field who are decisive, we have gained in mentality, he said. After the first match against Manchester (in 8th of C1 last season), everyone was convinced that we were at the best level, but there were injuries and the rest you know. But now we have progressed. We attack and defend together, we have a good spirit during training and games. There is a bond in the group, it is good and it is especially necessary to win the titles . "

It's great, we started the best 2 months of PSG supporters. January-February the months when we atomize everyone and where we gain confidence ...

Then comes the month of March 😰

- The Bad Dentist (@MechantDentiste) January 8, 2020

The words don't lie

Ahhh mentality. This damn mentality that has missed this team so much in the past in the Champions League and which could, with regard to this number, open the royal road to it this year on the European scene. Especially since there is quite a bit of time for the players and the coach to polish their automatisms before the big meeting in February in Dortmund.

We felt in Mauro Icardi's speech after the match as obvious: yes, this PSG has everything to do great things this season: “We wanted to make a very good start to the year and it's done. We really wanted to show what class of team we are this season. "

Mbappé collective, Neymar involved, wingers who participate in the downturn, Icardi ultra efficient, a perfect 4-4-2 although there is a question about the middle against a stronger adversity.

There is only positive to remember this evening. We do not know where PSG is going, but it is going well.

- Hadrien (@hadrien_grenier) January 8, 2020

Kylian Mbappé did not want to expand on this point after the match - the boy knows the syndrome of PSG called "foam legs" in the Champions League - but we still saw some signs of a confidence regained. While a colleague asked him a question about a possible extension of contract with PSG, the French preferred to mention the present.

"It's only the beginning"

"The club is in a stable, peaceful situation, this is not the time to talk about this, this is the time to play football," he announced. We have a lot of deadlines ahead of us so my only desire is to play and focus on a season that will be very, very long. ” Everything is in the "very, very long" - and in the mischievous little smile that accompanied this sentence - as if the players felt that they might finally achieve something great this season.

"This is the year when we are the most prepared, the strongest," says Neymar via @ 20minutesSport https://t.co/LRY3DykCgA

- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) January 8, 2020

And if we still had doubts about this new confidence in the Parisian ranks, they evaporated after the last declassions of Thomas Tuchel: "If we are able to play as during the last weeks, we are very dangerous. But this is only the start. We all have the feeling that we are prepared to continue like this. My wish for 2020? Let everyone be healthy, and like that we will be ready to fight to win the four titles ". Champions Trophies not included, right?

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