At the Parc des Princes,

From his cowhide leather sofa near Doha, the Emir of Qatar and owner of PSG Tamim ben Hamad al-Thani had to swallow his herbal tea askew. After taking out the checkbook and amazed (or disgusted) the gallery by signing Leo Messi and making the fuck at Barça, he certainly did not imagine seeing his coach take out his precious one quarter of the end of a match - not yet won - against one of the best teams in the French league. And yet. Ten minutes after the Parisian equalizer of Neymar on peno, and while the team finally seemed to come out of the torpor that accompanied it throughout the second half, Mauricio Pochettino dared the sacrilege. Couillu will say some, suicidal will say the others.

Messi's reaction is no doubt about how the Argentinian took the news.

Passed in front of his new coach without looking at him or even clapping him in the hand, the former blaugrana then gave him a significant pout before going to sit on the bench, under the hallucinatory eyes of his compatriot Leandro Paredes.

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At a press conference, Pochettino also seemed to take out the paddles when explaining his choice to a Spanish colleague from Marca who had just asked him the question at 110 million euros: "Everyone knows that we have very great players, that we have a squad of very great qualities, but we cannot play with more than eleven, ”he began by saying, without us seeing very well where he was going.

And the Argentine continues, still wobbly: “We have to make decisions for the good of the team.

Sometimes decisions have positive consequences, sometimes not.

I am here to make decisions.

We have to make decisions, it may or may not please ”.

Messi in all the (rare) good moves

What leaves you wondering is that at that time of the game the Pulga did not appear physically in agony. His arrival at PSG and his preparation have been managed with the greatest caution and, after a first entry into play against Reims before the international break and his first tenure last Wednesday in Bruges, it seems that the Argentinian has enough under the hood. to hold 90 minutes. Especially when you see the way he takes care of losing the ball, as he has been doing in Barcelona for years. Relaunched by our colleague Marca on the rather annoyed reaction of his number 30, the former boss of Spurs explained that he had simply "asked how he was". And that his player had replied "that it was fine, that's all." "

Until this 76th minute which risks talking beyond the borders of our Ligue 1, the former Barcelona had yet left a good impression. In addition to his delicious free kick at 25 meters on the square of Anthony Lopes, the Puce gave a glimpse of a good understanding with his attacking friends, in particular in the first period during a few thrilling combinations with Mbappé and Neymar. And if the PSG did not create many chances, all are marked with the seal of the Argentinian.

On Prime Video after the meeting, the luxury consultant Thierry Henry refused to "start arguing on this subject".

The reaction of the neo-Parisian pushes us all the same to consider the opposite.

Because if we obviously do not know a player who dances the sirtaki at the time of his change, we are still talking about the GOAT of the profession.

Of the player that we do not replace if HIM has not decided.

And if he chooses to show his moods ostensibly to his coach from his third match, it is not difficult to know which of the two will have the ear of the emir.

Let us at least recognize in Pochettino a certain taste for risk

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