Pochettino intervenes a lot with his players during matches.

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Alain JOCARD / AFP

  • PSG won Saturday night against Brest (3-0) at the Parc des Princes thanks to Kean, Icardi and Sarabia.

  • After his entry into the matter against Sainté on Wednesday, Mauricio Pochettino made his comeback at the Park in the skin of the new coach.

  • In less than a week, the Argentinian coach has managed to make his mark on the team here and there.

At the Parc des Princes,

It seems that the first impression is the right one.

After his very first press conference as head coach of PSG, Mauricio Pochettino had not left us a little hungry.

Not that the character is particularly unpleasant, on the contrary, let's just say that we had to take out the pickaxe and dig deep to make him develop his ideas.

Saturday evening, after the success (3-0) against Brest, his first as a Parisian coach, Mauricio Pochettino still remained very sober when it came time to return to the victory of his team.

After thanking the supporters for the welcome banner installed in the Auteuil turn, the Argentinian praised the “efforts” of his players after “two very intense matches” delivered in four days and with barely a few laps and three toros in the paws.

“It's a great satisfaction to have won tonight.

I saw the best compared to the match against Saint-Etienne, he analyzed.

Already there is victory, but I saw some improvements in the game, in particular the availability of the players ”.

High pressing, with the risks that entails

That's good, so are we.

Finally, after a short week at the head of the club for the former Spurs, we will talk more about tracks and sensations than real certainties on what will be the “Poché” version of PSG this season.

It prevents.

Even if the Brest coach Olivier Dall'Oglio asked us "to be patient" before talking about the style of Pochettino, his PSG on Saturday night showed a face sufficiently different from what was done under Tuchel to slip a few words.

Despite the physical condition of his troops, Pochettino immediately seeks to impose a very rhythmic game, with a lot of positional freedom in front of the ball and the hinge, very high, as the only cover (where Tuchel often added a third player & froze plus positions)

- Matthieu Martinelli (@matmartinelli) January 9, 2021

The pressing, already, trademark n ° 1 of the disciple (emancipated) of Marcelo Bielsa.

Already seen in snatches during the first half hour of play in Sainté, the Parisian pressure to lose the ball against Brest was in line with the idea of ​​what we do with a Pochettino team.

"He asks us to do a lot of pressing, very high", quickly validated Sarabia after the meeting at the microphone of Canal.

The problem is, it's a double-edged sword.

After a quarter of an hour of play, while in the stands we were astonished to see ten Parisians playing in the last 40 Breton meters, all it took was a laser pass from Brest to break two lines and undress all of Paris, narrowly saved. by his Costa Rican border guard in front of Irvin Cardona.

The two corners you will not shoot

With the ball too, Paris shows new inclinations.

In addition to the positioning of Marco Verratti a little higher on the field (even if it was less obvious against Brest than at Sainté), we felt a team which had the instruction to play short on the ground, in triangle, and without too much knit between each pass.

We will see if it will hold up with the return of the Brazilian mesh king, but this PSG is already less soporific to see play than it has been able to be in recent months.

Asked about the style of his new coach, Sarabia brings up an interesting point: "He wants us to have a lot of the ball and that we reverse the game a lot to destabilize the opponent".

It is also a point that jumped out at us on Saturday: this tendency that the Parisians had to lull their opponent to sleep on one side of the field to overthrow everything in one or two passes and destabilize the opposing block.

Big Ultras is watching you.

- Alain JOCARD / AFP

Another novelty, the corners.

Regular followers of PSG know, Paris had a tendency in recent years to hit these kicks with two, to stay fiddling with the ball in the corner to finally never send anything in the box.

It is obviously ancient history.

Against Brest, the Parisians shot all their corners directly and, luck or coincidence, each time there was danger.

Kean's first goal came from this phase of play after Marquinhos found the post with a nice uncrossed header on Di Maria's corner.

Only a week after taking office, the former Espanyol coach seems to have succeeded in bringing here and there his personal touch.

Next stage of the metamorphosis, the Champions trophy, Wednesday, against OM in Bollaert.

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