• PSG beat the Girondins de Bordeaux (3-2) on the 13th day of L1.

  • After a very complicated start to the season, Neymar confirmed his return to form with a very nice double.

  • A little blurred by the arrival of Messi, the Neymar-Mbappé connection works again at high speed.

At Matmut Atlantique,

This Saturday evening, Neymar had a tribute to pay to Bordeaux. A tribute to her friend and singer Marilia Mendonça, who tragically disappeared in a plane crash a few hours earlier. And he did it in the most beautiful way. Author of a double during the victory of PSG against the Girondins (3-2), the Brazilian surely had his best game of the season during this 13th day of Ligue 1. It was about time!

On the street since the start of the season with only one goal (from the penalty spot) and three assists in ten games, the Ney reminded everyone that he was indeed one of the best players in the world. "We take a 2-0 (at half-time) against a world-class player, he does what has to be done twice and there are not many players who can score his two goals", Gérard Lopez coldly summed up afterwards. An admiring Bordeaux president but certainly annoyed at the bottom of him, so much his players had dominated the start of the match against the ghosts of PSG. Sort of bis repetita from Leipzig.

But as in Germany three days earlier, it was the Brazilian who was the first to get his head out of the water. Cleaner and more spontaneous in his game, he first delivered a few caviars for the friends. And then he signed a first sequence of very high level on a cross of his sidekick, aka Kyky the good tips. Control, back on the foot, overpowered strike, goal. Great art. And what about the second in color. The Brazilian gets on his right foot from the left of the area, presses Kyky the right tips (bis), strikes flush with the post unstoppable, goal. Mass has been said. “Our start was complicated, admits Junior Dina Ebimbe

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but we were able to react quickly thanks to Neymar who scored two very good goals, far from being achieved.

He relieved us, he allowed us to better manage the rest of the match more calmly.

He has shown that he is a great player.

Well, no one really doubted that.

Much better can still be done ...

After Lille and Leipzig, it's been three (very) good matches in a week.

But apart from one, "it's important for an attacking player to score", we will not have more explanations from Mauricio Pochettino on the return to form of Ney.

Finally, it is an evening opponent who seems the most insightful on the Brazilian, good old Mbaye Niang, author of his first with the Girondins during this match:

“He's gaining momentum.

Afterwards, he's like all players, when you don't have any physical preparation, it's complicated.

There, I find that with the rhythm of the matches, the fact of playing high intensity matches in the European Cup, it also allows him to pick up the pace.

He is sharper and as luck would have it, he has become decisive again.

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And despite the waste in his game (67% successful passes and 36 balls lost), he achieved a solid performance overall (100% shots on target, 50% duels won, 71% successful dribbles and 8 balls recovered. ).

👟 @KMbappe: 2 assists


⚽️ @neymarjr: 2 goals



The duo of the evening 📸 # FCGBPSG (0-2) pic.twitter.com/w34mwpJjug

- Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@ Ligue1UberEats) November 6, 2021

Another good news for PSG, and they are rare at the moment on the ground, the Neymar-Mbappé broadband connection seems to have been restored.

In Messi's absence, the two have spent their time looking for each other like in the good old days.

The second was therefore decisive double passer for the first but more generally, the Frenchman and the Brazilian made very beautiful sequences, in particular on this left side which they both like.

The spark is back.

With each acceleration, the opponent gets scared.

With a little more success and rigor, the two accomplices could have inflated their stats a little more.

This is only a postponement.

But one thing is certain, Kyky Mbappé surely feels much less alone than a week ago… Le Ney is back !!!! 

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