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At the Parc des Princes,
One draw, two perspectives.
Where Thomas Tuchel feels defeat, the Girondins de Bordeaux see victory.
A question of difference in striking force, but not only.
The scenario of the match foreshadowed the worst for the visitors at the end of the first period, so we can easily understand the clenched fist of Laurent Koscielny in front of the camera in the tunnel of the Park after the final whistle.
Gasset does not sulk his pleasure either.
“I'm happy with the state of mind of the players,” he said in the post-match conference, “because they weren't shot after the second goal.
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There was however something to twist.
From a favorable situation - the opening of the scoring against his camp of Pembele in the 10th - and a corner on the right of the Parisian defense, the Bordelais went to a penalty for Neymar (27th) after a maradonesque slalom including Paul Baysse must have had a nightmare and a baseball bat on the back of the neck signed Moise Kean a minute later.
A sequence that had the gift of putting Parisian ball handlers in confidence, giving way to beautiful collective sequences more interviews since a lease on the front of PSG.
Tuchel, however severe on Saturday night, did not forget to mention it in his post-match analysis.
“We controlled the first half, we controlled completely.
We played well because we followed the plan, we were disciplined and we created chances against a team against which it is usually hard to create it.
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Costil 1-0 Mbappé
Very good Thomas, but the chances are still much more accommodating when converted into a goal.
Kylian Mbappé, the big loser of the evening against Benoît Costil, knows something about it.
Would he be stressed by the prospect of a 100th goal under the Parisian colors.
Tuchel doesn't think so.
On the contrary, "it gives him a positive pressure", he believes he knows.
It does not correspond too much to what we saw on his scandalously failed face-to-face with the Girondin goalkeeper in conditions nevertheless worthy of the Orange challenge of the U15s of Meudon at half-time at the Park.
Why try the inside hook when there was a thousand times the room to find the frame?
Besides, let us recognize in Costil a stratospheric level, even when Kyky made the right choices.
Before the break, he had fetched with the tips of his fingernails a ball intended to finish its race in the small opposite net, instead of which he went to die on the post.
Gasset's tactical victory
Another Parisian gap that the Bordelais did not deprive themselves of exploiting, the desert of the middle of the PSG on the phases of offensive-defensive transitions.
We can not say that the Ney-Mbappé duo was hardworking when it came to withdrawal and it was hardly better for Paredes, Rafinha then Herrera, some of whose defensive races were at best akin to split work.
Opposite, the Girondins were content "to remain balanced behind", to better surprise against, explains Gasset, especially from the 70th, when Tuchel tilted his game towards the ultra-offensive.
“There was space in front so we had to leave the offensive players against and not accompany them because Paris ended up with five top attackers [Neymar, Mbappé, Di Maria, Sarabia and Icardi].
We mastered tactically defensively but without the finish in front.
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It didn't go far.
Under the impetus of a found Ben Arfa, the Girondins almost pulled off the perfect shot in the 89th when the former Parisian perfectly launched De Préville in depth.
But, like Mbappé half an hour earlier, he failed in his duel against Sergio Rico, while he was perfectly isolated.
One of the few areas where Bordeaux has failed to do better than PSG.
Sometimes victory comes at a minimum.
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