Mauro Icardi scored just minutes after coming into play against Brest.

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  • PSG beat Brest on Saturday night at the Parc des Princes on the 18th day of L1.

  • Back after long weeks of convalescence, Mauro Icardi has found his way back to the net.

  • After months of hardship in Paris, the Argentine could revive the competition in attack this season.

At the Parc des Princes,

It did not take long Saturday night to remember why PSG had gone to seek Mauro Icardi at Inter in the summer of 2019. Came into play at the end of the match (81st) against Brest, the Argentinian touched the barely ladle a dozen balloons.

Result: two strikes (on target), a goal, a dice pass.

It is true that after a thunderous debut in Paris, in recent months Icardi has crossed a good part of the Sahara alone and without stopovers, to the point that some have come to wonder if this definitive transfer (the club has lifted the purchase option at the start of the season) was ultimately not a mistake - one more - on the part of PSG.

Internally, it is also rumored that the player's behavior is not the most irreproachable in terms of personal involvement, especially since the club blew up his purchase option and made him sign a juicy contract of four years.

If this is the case, Mauro Icardi wanted to provide his own answers.

After a first good movement in the Brest area and a scud on Larsonneur, the former interist spoke his sense of goal and placement a few minutes later.

Formidably served in withdrawal after a festival of Kylian Mbappé ball, Icardi was in the right place, at the right time, with just the small step back it takes to put the Breton defenders in the zef, to push the ball to the bottom.

Good bah excellent the return to competition of Icardi.

A goal is a decisive pass on the heel for Sarabia.

We left him at the bottom of the seal, succeeding in that for a comeback is ideal.

- Hadrien (@hadrien_grenier) January 9, 2021

Icardi will have to earn his place

In the process, he even turned into a passer - and what a pass: a heel in the middle of the race - to serve Pablo Sarabia, at the origin of the 3-0 goal with a powerful shot from the left outside the surface.

It is obviously not on this type of action that we expect the Parisian number 9, but it is always good to take for confidence.

Especially when in front you have a Moise Kean who turns like a Ferrari and displays nine pawns over his last thirteen games on the clock.

Proof that the competition will be tough this season at the forefront of the attack, Mauricio Pochettino did not necessarily roll out the red carpet at Icardi at a press conference after the match.

"Paso a paso (step by step), slowly," he said.

He's coming back from an injury, he's working very well, he's coming back little by little.

It is important for him to have scored so that he regains confidence.

But Mauro, like the other players returning from injury, will have to take his chance when called upon.

I hope that every player who returns to the squad will make it difficult for me when it comes to making my typical team.

Icardi therefore does not arrive in conquered ground, but if the competition can allow "Poché" to wake up the beast, everyone will find what it is.

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