INTERVIEW
He admits to looking at it "a little from afar, not daily", but Rai remains a regular supporter of Paris Saint-Germain. Whoever played 215 matches with the capital club in the 1990s keeps a close eye on his club of hearts from his native Brazil. "PSG is a superb team, which has given a lot of spectacle, unforgettable matches", advises Rai at the microphone of Europe 1, before delivering his analysis. "Looking at it from afar, it lacks a little more consistency."
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Neymar and Mbappé, "outsized" for Rai
The player recruited by Michel Denisot concedes that Paris fell, especially in the Champions League, on "great teams, Manchester United, Barcelona". According to him, the eliminations were played on "details" and, if the club could "have gone further" in the competition, according to the brother of Socrates "a little more collective."
Rai explains: "to have this regularity, sometimes you have to have more automatism. They have already had in a few matches a great collective level, but you have to have it in all matches. You have to keep this great level, that's what Liverpool did last season. PSG hasn't managed to keep it very high in recent years, but it's not easy to achieve. We have to think about how they can do that. 'a more consistent way. "
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Rai also spoke about his compatriot, Neymar. "He is an extraordinary player, surely on a technical level, one of the best of all time. Mbappé is also on the same level. But they can go even further." To go further, we will first have to wait to know if the French championship and the Champions League will resume this season…