- After taking three against Bordeaux last Sunday, PSG concluded their victory against Dijon with a welcome clean sheet eleven days before the match against Dortmund.
- The Parisians have repeated that they were united, despite internal criticism after the party organized three days after the defeat in Germany.
Dijon was the ideal target for this PSG in search of certainties before the reception of Dortmund in the Champions League next March 11. After a half-fig, half-grape Sunday against Bordeaux, where the Parisians had conceded three goals and were again very feverish defensively, Thomas Tuchel's men had a flawless match against Dijon with, at the end, a clean sheet that feels good where it goes. "We had to get out of this match without conceding goals, that was the goal," confirmed Navas at the microphone of beIN Sport on Saturday evening.
“It was an almost perfect match, although there is always room for improvement. But overall, we created a lot of opportunities and we didn't give them any. We were very attentive, it was necessary. We defended together with a lot of effort, ”welcomed the German coach after the meeting. However, if the PSG could have easily stuck four more in Dijon - the fault in particular of a Cavani in Bordeaux winegrower mode - the Parisian defense has sometimes been caught in defeat, the Parisian block often taking too long to descend help friends.
Paris sure of its strength
It is one of those famous "things to improve" that Tuchel talked about after the meeting. For the rest, not much to say. Dijon did not have the weapons to make the weight and the Parisian evening would have been perfect if Angel Di Maria had not had to give up his place to Draxler at the start of the match after having felt a little something behind the thigh. "Nothing too bad" a priori , as confirmed by one of the club's doctors at Canal +.
This success and the way it was built reinforce the players in their idea that the defeat in Dortmund is not irreversible and that everything remains open to the return match. Above all, they have taken care to repeat that everything is going well in the group despite the latest updates from the Tuchel-Leonardo duo revealed by our colleagues from L'Equipe on Saturday. After the frenzied fiesta of the players on the anniversary of the Icardi-Cavani-Di Maria trio and the escape on social networks of videos of the prowess of Parisians on the dancefloor, the PSG staff would have decided to push a rant in the locker room.
A group united behind the same goal: Dortmund
What would have had the gift, explains L'Equipe , to weld a little more the Parisian group. Keylor Navas - aka "Michael Jackson 7-5" - is said to have spoken in front of everyone to defend his teammates. This is also what emerged from his speech after Dijon in front of the cameras of beIN Sports. “The atmosphere in the group is very good. I will always defend my teammates, he said in reference to his intervention against Leonardo. They always defend me and they do the best on the field and it is also my role to defend them. "
The discourse is a little more measured at Idrissa Gueye, but the guiding idea is the same: the Parisians are united before tackling the most important match of their season against the Borussen: "A united team? It is said, but it must be proven on the ground by obtaining this qualification for the quarters. "
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PSG: Cavani, titular against Dijon? "This is not the time to stop it", for Thomas Tuchel
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