At the Parc des Princes,
Fireworks, speeches, a photo and Auteuil roaring.
Wednesday evening, on the lawn of the Park, the packaging was more beautiful than the content.
Because behind the tributes with great pomp to Gigio Donnarumma - best goalkeeper in the world - and Lionel Messi - Ballon d'Or for the 7th time - hid a PSG-Nice at best disappointing, at worst unworthy of a poster between a leader and the 3rd in Ligue 1 trained by a coach like Christophe Galtier.
Big chances, of course, great goalkeepers, yes, blocks-teams, but no goal and above all too little intensity for a meeting of those who should serve as a showcase for the League of talents.
So let's analyze what there is to remember without the slightest enthusiasm.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Wednesday's draw is above all that of Walter Benitez and Gigio Donnarumma.
The two goalkeepers, perhaps a little more the first than the second, in turn disgusted the daring who came to attack their goals.
From the first, we will remember the two stops in 30 seconds flat ahead of Angel Di Maria (who had presented himself alone in front of him) and Nuno Mendes.
The second, we will remember the feeling of power released by this arm countering a head that was not yet tender from Andy Delort.
Not the Lev Yachine Trophy for nothing, Gigio.
The Nice people happy with the draw
Tongue-out, Morgan Schneiderlin, accompanied by the press secretary of OGC Nice, passed under the noses of all the journalists, pretending to refuse to stop, before turning around.
" We laugh ".
Good atmosphere at the Gym, where one feels a certain satisfaction to leave Paris with a point even though the three would have been playable if Kasper Dolberg had not been the victim of a Fifa bug three meters from Donnarumma's cage in the second half, like what, dreaming bigger is not given to everyone.
Idea rather well summarized by all the Niçois passed in front of the press.
Dante:
"We know we missed a big blow, but despite everything we leave here with our heads held high."
Schneiderlin:
“We may have one or two regrets, but Paris has also created opportunities.
We're not going to be choosy.
Taking a point at the Park is good.
We created opportunities, we would have liked to convert them to get the three points.
But keeping a
clean sheet
at the Parc is something rare.
It's very good for us.
"
Delort:
“Faced with a team like this, we are happy to bring home a point.
Of course, we had two really clear chances, we could have come away with the three points, but we are already happy.
"
Pochettino sees the best
To defend (a little) the Nice by putting aside that this PSG has never been so takeable despite its 90 points ahead of the 2nd while December is barely the tip of its nose, let's recognize that this Paris is almost the most consistent that we have seen in ages.
To understand that, without being brilliant, he had a block and a guiding idea: to sweep the ground in width to bypass the block and, when that did not work, to try by the axis.
Well, no luck, nothing worked despite the 70% possession.
But you had to see the face of the Nice block and the way it was sliding.
To make you pass the Bolshoi ballet for cat pee.
Suddenly and at the risk of being hit for lack of ambition, Mauricio Pochettino was rather satisfied with the basic performance of his men.
"We are playing as we should, with the tools we have at the moment," he said at a press conference.
I am satisfied with the evolution.
We are improving little by little, we are first in Ligue 1 and qualified in the Champions League, we continue to work to be ready.
"
Todibo put Mbappé in his pocket
Can there be a loser without a winner? Kylian Mbappé is one of the answers to the question. His duel with Jean-Clair Todibo ended in total failure, so much so that the striker often found himself outside the preferential passing circuits of Lionel Messi, who turned more to Di Maria and Hakimi. Present at impact, intelligent in the duels and always vigilant, the Nice central defender delivered a high-level performance and confirmed his progress under the command of Christophe Galtier. The Nice coach obviously did not fail to salute the performance at a press conference. “He had one of the best players in the world [on him]. When Kylian Mbappé remains silent, it is because the defender in his zone made a big match."While still hoping that Jean-Clair did not forget to take the Parisian out of his pocket at the end of the evening.
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