From our special correspondent in Madrid,
What a life, what a club, as a well-known Parisian tweeter would say.
Always surprising you to cultivate the relationship, even when you are married and the children are grown.
We'll see each other again at half-time, well, with a colleague from the big press, author of an article noticed in the morning on the defeatism that sticks to PSG in the event, a nagging rattle quite obscure for who considers from afar that the Parisian supporters do not have too much right to complain in view of the merchandise.
The colleague therefore told us that something unclear could still happen, and we answered him sure of ourselves something like: "there are two classes of difference, it will be 3-0 at the 70, tripled of Kylian, you can note”.
But now, the bad thing happened.
Donnarumma has joined the too long list of meteorites that have razed the Parisian earth without warning.
16 inexplicable, unjustifiable, unbearable minutes.
16 minutes to take three goals, Paris had not done worse since the end of the match at Camp Nou, which we thought was installed at the top of the pantheon of sudden dysentery for PSG players.
Benzema's fault?
We will quote the always balanced Emmanuel Petit (humor), seated a few steps from us at the Bernabeu, and mad with rage long after the disaster: “Stop taking refuge behind this fault, behind you shit on yourself, it was Jurassik Park, you get eaten by the dinosaurs”.
And suddenly the Diplodocus (re)became T-rex
Let's follow the metaphor: Real Madrid looked like a nice diplodocus in a retirement home for a long time before discovering itself T-rex in front of the new mental eclipse of the Parisians.
“After the first goal, there was only one team on the pitch,” commented Ancelotti, though not the most arrogant of coaches.
But how else to qualify this end of the match where Paris could have taken the triple, each player being more lost than his neighbor, despite an experience of the gadins of a veteran of the Great War?
Same as at Camp Nou five years ago, same as at Parc against this same team in 2018, same as against MU in 2019, a sign that this group is not growing, even if the good course of last season had could suggest that he was on the right path.
The harder it will be
And now ?
Pochettino, unable to overcome his frustration with the referee on Wednesday to explain this disintegration, and more generally unable to give any game identity to his team in more than a year, will get off without returning his last expense report, that is.
But PSG has exhausted so many coaches, all swallowed up by the system, that we end up wondering if there are any volunteers left.
The best like Guardiola or Klopp are already taken, anyway, and Zidane, who is said to be in advanced discussions with Doha, may change his phone after what he saw on Wednesday.
However, he would not necessarily have to work with Leonardo.
🎙 @DanielRiolo: "It's like a prison. All PSG coaches are prisoners of the system. If they manage to get Zidane and he asks for absolute powers, there may be something different. But for all PSG coaches, it's the same thing!"
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The Brazilian sports director will indeed hear about the country, he who put Donnarumma in the hands of a Navas ovation by the socios in the warm-up, the goalkeeper of the best Parisian evenings in C1.
He will also be reminded that PSG are still waiting for the box-to-box midfielder capable of supporting Verratti when it really matters, even if Wijnaldum looked like a good idea for everyone in August.
Léo, who will not be able to hold Mbappé prisoner to hide the misery for another year, is he able to take to their heels before he is told the exit, like the first time?
When hot, he seemed combative
“We thought we could win it”
“We must accept our mistakes, our difficulties, our inability to manage difficult times.
(…) (The equalization) was a key moment, it changed a lot.
We lost control a bit and they scored two goals straight away, that was decisive.
It's very hard to live with but we have to find solutions, move forward because we have good things, we can't bury everything now.
Until halftime of this match, we were convinced that we were superior.
We were well placed to advance in this Champions League, and with this squad, we believed we could win it.
We need time to reflect and move forward.
There remains the great mamouchi Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, who had remade the cherry by leading the rebellion against this perfidious superleague last spring.
Now that he has UEFA in his pocket, it is hard to see him quitting everything to return to Doha.
Unless Doha calls it back, you tell me.
But four months before the World Cup in the country, who can believe it?
The show must go on.
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