In Monaco, Parisians have proven that 4-4-2 was effective

• Thomas Tuchel's 4-4-2, which was too inconsistent at the Parc on Wednesday, proved its worth on Wednesday against the same Monaco team.
• The "fantastic four", including Angel Di Maria, this time made the necessary defensive efforts.

At the Louis-II stadium,

Let's put five euros in the plate box. And remember a thousandth time, that everything goes very quickly in sport. Sunday evening, we buried Tuchel's 4-4-2, convinced that it would explode against the great European teams, that Paris was not made to play like that, that the "fantastic four" were not capable of make the defensive efforts essential in this kind of device. But Wednesday, during the clear Parisian victory at Louis-II (1-4), we repacked all our doubts: this scheme can be very convincing.

For Keïta Baldé, the main difference between the return match (played at the Park before the first match) and the match on Wednesday is psychological: “The Parisians came with more respect after the match we made there. " OKAY. But they mostly came with more defensive rigor. While in the Park, PSG was a team often cut in two, closer to 4-2-4 than 4-4-2, we saw on the contrary in Monaco a consistent eleven, united and applied.

"Everyone gives themselves for the team"

"The counter-pressing of the front four made things easier for us," appreciates Thiago Silva. We do not ask them to mark as Gueye or Kouassi, but to do the pressing, as today, because at the Park we were not at the level! "For him, the system is good:" I like this system, because it is a 4-4-2 on paper, but when we enter the field, it's not that, we play everywhere , Ney or Di Maria are inside ... And it's a system where everyone gives themselves for the team. "

7 - Angel Di Maria and Kylian Mbappé were decisive passers for each other on 7 goals in Ligue 1 this season (6 assists by Di Maria for Mbappé and 1 assist by Mbappé for Di Maria), the duo the more prolific in the elite in 2019/20. Bromance 💌. @PSG_inside pic.twitter.com/VO5XHDVW9K

The Argentinian a little more than the Brazilian, obviously. This Wednesday, Di Maria shone. In his passes (a caviar on Mbappé's first goal, an offering harvested by Icardi…), of course, but above all for recovery. The attacking midfielder, often positioned as playmaker, recovered eight balls - the second best performance of a Parisian, Wednesday evening. He also won four duels.

Since moving to 442, PSG have scored 39 goals in 9 games. 😳
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"Di Maria had a big volume, it helped everyone", appreciates Thomas Tuchel, who notes that his team was better "in the mentality during the counter-pressings, in closing the spaces. Before the first confrontation against Dortmund on February 18, his team will face Lille and Lyon: two new possibilities to further improve the mastery of this new tactical system. The effectiveness of which is no longer to be proven. Finally ... We already told you that everything goes very fast, in football?

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