Kylian Mbappé huge against OL, the tree that hides the forest for PSG?

• PSG won 5-1 in Lyon, thus qualifying for the final of the Coupe de France.
• Kylian Mbappé, author of a hat-trick and an XXL match, was the great architect of the Parisian victory.
• But before the penalty and the red card addressed to Marçal, PSG had suffered 11 against 11 against an OL player and attractive.

At Parc OL,

The banner deployed by the CUP (Collectif Ultras Paris) at the reception in Bordeaux - and also targeting Thiago Silva and Neymar - asked him to "wear his balls", ironically on the alleged "fear of winning" of the three Parisian stars. Ten days after this match and two weeks after a meeting in Dortmund crossed like a ghost at the post of n ° 9, Kylian Mbappé responded in the best way, Wednesday evening, at the Parc OL.

#OLPSG @KMbappe je t'aime bg. 😍😍 #psg #mbappe pic.twitter.com/NNTbeLcRWy

Author of a hat-trick and an XXL performance, the Parisian striker disgusted OL and carried almost all by himself PSG towards its sixth final of the Coupe de France in a row. And knowing the character of the guy, we would not be surprised that he had a little thought for the ultras from the Auteuil tribune at the final whistle.

Mbappé dynamited Lyon defense

Aligned in the axis alongside Cavani, Mbappé has often dezoned on the left side, frequently combining with Neymar and Kurzawa. Rather in legs, we saw him repeatedly provoke the Lyon defenders, ball in the foot. And in the 14th minute, on a Sarabia corner, it was he who threw himself to extend into the net a header from Kurzawa. A crucial goal that allowed PSG, led since the opening of the Terrier score three minutes earlier, not to start doubting.

#mbappe when he saw Marçal take the red card pic.twitter.com/feeGKv7YQA

We then saw intermittently the darker side of Mbappé, that sometimes annoyed and annoying who challenges the arbitral decisions and grumbles on his teammates as on his opponents. Fortunately, that did not last and the crack of Bondy was responsible for dynamiting the Rhone defense after the break. He was initially at the origin of the penalty conceded by Marçal - expelled for a second yellow after his hand -, true turning point of the match, overflowing on the left wing before centering for Cavani.

"Ronaldesque" ride and kidney failure on Marcelo

Then came the moment of grace, 10 minutes later, a little gem that will loop all week. Starting from his own camp, Kylian Mbappé caught Bruno Guimaraes with a supersonic leg pass, before embarking on a "ronaldesque" ride (R9 the Brazilian) and breaking Marcelo's kidney with a dazzling hook, to finish by lining up Anthony Lopes from a good old pointy. Some historic Parisian supporters have no doubt thought they were making a good 25 years back and seeing a certain George Weah again.

6 - @KMbappe has scored 6 goals in his last 4 games against Lyon in all competitions. Executioner. #OLPSG pic.twitter.com/A4zm7kWR4w

But if Mbappé completed his work with a third goal at the very end of the match, the question nevertheless deserves to be asked: would not his performance be the tree hiding the forest? Because until the 60th minute and the penalty-red card combo that definitively killed the Lyonnais, PSG had often suffered collectively against an attractive OL.

Without Verratti, a real creative deficit in the middle

First observation: Thomas Tuchel's 4-4-2 (becoming a 4-2-4 in the offensive phase) seemed fairly wobbly for an hour. In front, Neymar did not seem very sharp physically and Cavani was unlucky, like his superb volley from outside the right sent on the post. But it is especially in the middle and in defense that are the sources of concern for Parisians, a week before the reception of Borussia Dortmund.

We had the confirmation: without the vista , the technical quality and the ability to guide Marco Verratti's game, the PSG suffers from a real creative deficit. Problem: "Little Owl" will be suspended for the return match and we will have to do well without him. In the absence of the Italian, the Gueye-Paredes pair regularly suffered and was dominated by the middle three of the Gones. The case of the Senegalese unfortunately begins to become complicated and the formidable player who had walked on the middle of Real in group stage seems today far away.

Apart from Marquinhos, the other three defenders were not at the party

As for the defense, it did not give any guarantees on Wednesday. Admittedly, Thiago Silva was injured, Kimpembé suspended… But apart from Marquinhos who rather held the hut, the three other defenders were not at the party. Aligned alongside the "Marquis" in central defense, Kehrer was thus moved by Toko-Ekambi and Dembélé, and the superb body feint of the latter, who left the young German on the spot to send Terrier to the duel against Navas, could have been fraught with consequences. Remains the eternal concern of the side, with a Kurzawa quite present offensively but who lost the ball having led to the first goal from Lyon, and a discreet and often in trouble Miller against Terrier.

After the match, Thomas Tuchel was abnormally complimentary in a press conference, evoking "a solid, serious, concentrated performance" and a "deserved and fantastic result". Double talk ? Willing to preserve his troops? Difficult to read between the lines and determine the real opinion of the German coach. Pablo Sarabia, for his part, admitted in the mixed zone that "the expulsion [of Marçal] had settled things down". One thing is certain, Paris still has a job and it will probably show something else to overthrow the BVB next week.

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