EDITORIAL - "PSG-OM, it was the dumbest football competition in the world, right?"

Sensation at the Parc des Princes: the Marseillais, who had not beaten the Parisians since November 2011 and the beginning of the Qatari era, dominated PSG 1-0, Sunday evening, at the end of the third day of Ligue 1. In an almost empty Parc des Princes, the match was fiercely contested and particularly choppy.

Five players were excluded: Neymar, Layvin Kurzawa and Leandro Paredes for the Parisians, Jordan Amavi and Dario Benedetto for the Marseillais.

And that doesn't really matter to our editorialist Virginie Phulpin, to whom it brought back old memories of the 90s ...

"If it looks like that, to rejuvenate, I will rather keep my anti-wrinkle cream, me. Because there in fact of youth, we especially saw immaturity and irresponsibility ... A playground. The Marseillais came with a plan. Not really a game plan. Their goal was to get the Parisians off their hinges, with Neymar as a prime target. And it worked well, the Brazilian fell into the trap like a rookie . As soon as there is tension in fact, he's the first to unpin. He probably didn't have the legs to shine, after his forced stop for Covid, so he instead used his mouth to respond to provocations. Well from time to time, he also left his crampons lying around or tried to play the saviors on his own, forgetting the friends. So if he ever really tripped after Alvaro's racist insults, we didn't more confirmation, there we will have fallen very low. With a day when we will have had homophobia and sexism on banners

Parisians, and racism on the ground.

We're having a dumbest football contest in the world, right?

The playground games have changed… In addition, normally there is always a teacher to come and calm things down, but the referee was completely overwhelmed.

Oh that, he distributed cards in spades… Often deserved, sometimes not, a penalty could have been whistled for PSG, but no, and a goal should have been awarded to OM, but no.

Suffice to say that that's not how he could be respected… We didn't really see football last night, but a nasty battle.  

By rejuvenating 10 years, we still plunged into a real opposition between PSG and OM, right? 

It could be good news.

We have known the result of the Classic for 10 years before it was even played.

There, at least, we find suspense.

I try to convince myself, but I can't.

For OM, basically, it was the year or never.

With a diminished PSG opposite, bruised after his Covid cases, it was better to take advantage of it.

The Marseillais managed to do it, good for them.

But the problem is that if OM won, it's not because they were good, it's because PSG did anything.

That the Parisians cannot play their football at the moment, yes.

That they play low-level ragpickers on the pitch 3 weeks after their Champions League final, it's sad.

So if, to find an opposition worthy of the name, we have to see PSG once again become a small Ligue 1 club with short ideas, I'm not sure I want to rejuvenate, no.

Is that the show we want to offer to the youngest, those who have a real playground? "