After Clermont at the start (0-5), PSG signed a second game without taking a goal in five Ligue 1 days, this Wednesday in Toulouse (0-3).
We can add the Champions Trophy against Nantes (4-0).
However, the TFC had many scoring opportunities, due to the spaces in the Parisian system, which could become real problems in the Champions League.
If he has signed several stops, Gianluigi Donnarumma does not always reassure.
At the Toulouse Stadium,
This Wednesday evening, as the final whistle for this TFC – PSG (0-3) had just sounded, a six or seven-year-old boy sprang onto the Stadium lawn.
After a long race, the Pitchoun was severely tackled by a member of the security staff, which provoked whistles from the public and perhaps gave ideas to recruiters from Stade Toulousain, whose team was present in full force in the Brice-Taton bend for this gala match.
After rubbing his ribs, this cheeky little guy will still be able to tell it to himself this Thursday in front of his friends for the start of the school year, especially since he left with the gloves of Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Much more valuable equipment than the crampons of the Italian goalkeeper of PSG, as it sends shivers down the spine of his supporters as soon as he tries something with his feet.
His kind of gri-gri in front of the Moroccan international of TFC Zakaria Aboukhlal thus revived among Parisian fans the painful and not so distant memory of the dumpling of the Italian in front of Karim Benzema and Real, in the round of 16 of the Ligue des champions.
Except that there was no goal this time.
“We have great confidence in “Gigio” who is doing a “clean sheet” today, assured in the mixed zone Nordi Mukiele, right piston for his first tenure in L1 with PSG.
It's important for trust.
“It was hard to imagine the former Leipzig, back in his (pre)training club saying anything else.
Second Ligue 1 defense
His counterpart on the left Juan Bernat, who entered during the game in place of Nuno Mendes to plant the last Parisian goal (90th), gave a layer: “We have a solid team, it is not easy to score us goals.
“Paris has conceded four in five days of L1, like Lyon in four games.
Only OM do better (three).
But next Tuesday against Juventus, for their entry into the Champions League, there is a chance that a Vlahovic will be more skilful than Aboukhlal or Dallinga.
Not very inspired against Donnarumma, the Violets attackers failed to take advantage of the holes in the rear of the championship leader, especially at the start of the game.
“We had a bit of a difficult start against a great team from Toulouse, admitted Christophe Galtier without difficulty.
We decide to play high and that sometimes offers our opponents certain flaws.
We're working on it to fix that.
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📊 Crazy stat: in 90 minutes, Marquinhos hasn't played a single duel.
This is the 4th time (including 2 in LDC) that this has happened to him since he played for PSG, playing the entire match.
He is the only Parisian to whom it has happened under QSI, with Cavani (once) pic.twitter.com/poGjPhpuF6
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“There are a lot of spaces, rebounded Mukiele.
In this system, it's not that easy.
We will work on the video in training.
It's better that it happens now.
We have very intelligent players, we will correct that.
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In this system with three centrals, Galtier was deprived of Kimpembe on Wednesday, injured, and seriously replaced by Danilo Pereira alongside Marquinhos, decidedly not in the shape of his life, and veteran Ramos, correct.
The former Lille and Nice technician again repeated that he hoped for a new central defender (the Slovak from Inter Milan Skriniar still seems to be the Parisian priority).
Navas out of the race, but still present
On the right side, where Toulouse have long insisted, Mukiele has not made Achraf Hakimi forget, left on the bench in this week with three games, alongside Keylor Navas, still not gone.
The former number 1 bis has clearly demoted this summer in the hierarchy without giving the impression of being fundamentally inferior to its Italian competitor.
If he assured on his line this Wednesday, without having an impossible stop unlike his Toulouse colleague Maxime Dupé, the reigning European champion with the Squadra Azzurra does not always release the insurance that should go with his status.
The former AC Milan also sometimes makes decisions that escape ordinary mortals, such as during his strange outing in front of Ben Yedder on Sunday at the Parc des Princes (1-1), which the Monegasque had failed to take advantage of.
A matter of balance
That said, he seems to have enjoyed himself at the Stadium, if we are to believe his statements on Canal +: “It was a great evening and a great football match.
What more ?
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A little more defensive rigor perhaps, while not bullying the offensive geniuses of the team (Messi, Neymar, Mbappé) and not overloading the already very active Verratti and Vitinha with work.
The balance is inevitably difficult to find.
But it is at this price that PSG can finally hope to touch its European Holy Grail.
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