Tackle and red card ... Loïc Perrin missed his last outing with Sainté

There is no wriggling, of all the scenarios he must have imagined in his head before the match, not once did Loïc Perrin have thought to live such a nightmare for what will certainly remain as the last of his career. At 34, the iconic captain of the Greens should, except last minute reversal, bid farewell to football, and this final spoiled by an expulsion will take time to fade.

We rewind: Thrown in depth, Mbappé arrives at any ball in the direction of Loïc Perrin. Two solutions are then available to him: either he tries to stop it - with the risks that this entails when you have tired knees - or he lets it go and offers the Parisian number 7 a real scoring opportunity. The Saint-Etienne captain will finally choose the second option and what happened, a tackle certainly not bad but of incredible violence. The pictures are horrible and the punishment makes sense.

GO TO LOIC PERRIN, A FINISH LIKE ZIDANE

Puel don't shoot the ambulance

Seeing the referee come back to him after a quick glance at the video, the defender quickly realized that it was all over for him. After going to check the condition of his victim, Perrin left the field, head bowed a la Zizou in 2006, and the friendly slap from Coach Puel must not have changed anything to his sadness. We feel a little sorry for him because, deep down, Perrin never had the reputation of being a bad player. Hard on man yes, bad, no. Nothing to do in any case with some fades in which the history of our championship is full. Imagine, this red card is only the second of his career. For a central defender who has 470 games on the clock, it's almost a miracle. 

It is surely for this reason that Claude Puel did not want to add more at a press conference after the defeat. “With these players [of the Mbappé type], we think we have the ball but they have such a thrust that they can make the difference at any time. Of course, I regret Kylian's injury. But it was a healthy engagement, there was no bad intention. The intention was to play the ball, but it is true that it goes too fast, ”he explained. We were still not far from "it's Kylian's fault", but it's also true, what idea to run at this speed? ! It's a safe bet that the Parisian striker will not hold it against him. The guy knows football and its rules, even if sometimes they hurt, very badly.

Wilfried Mbappé while waiting for Perrin pic.twitter.com/TFPYHNlcCg

The Greens were in the game

For Sainté, this exclusion was doubly bad there too since, apart from the opening of the score of Neymar in the quarter of an hour of play, the PSG was abused at the start of the match. Bouanga's post could have already given this final a completely different appearance but, even after the Brazilian's strike under the bar of Jessy Moulin, Claude Puel's men seemed to have something to hinder the Parisian armada. Once at ten, the case was not at all the same.

“I would like to congratulate my players, they have given themselves the means to make a great match. We had a very full game, everyone contributed to the building, said the Stéphanois coach at the end of the evening. The disappointment is up to the investment and the quality that my players have put in. I said in the locker room that this game can herald good things for the season to come. "A future that should be done without Perrin, therefore, even if the captain of the Greens has not yet officially announced anything. Let him already recover from this nightmarish evening.

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