The turn of the match lost on Friday by PSG against Nice (2-3, 5th day of Ligue 1) gave rise to serious fears among certain observers about the rest of the Parisian season.
After a sluggish start to the championship, punctuated by two draws (conceded without Kylian Mbappé then sidelined by his management), Paris Saint-Germain finally woke up to string together two consecutive successes. But on Friday evening, Luis Enrique’s men fell for the first time, moreover at home, beaten by a relentless OGC Nice (2-3, 5th day). For some, the appearance of the match and the Parisian difficulties in midfield are sources of concern for the future.
Journalist for France Blue, Pia Clemens rightly expressed her fears just after the meeting. On the set of the channel The Team, she explained why. “ Luis Enrique asks for a short game and sometimes, we have the impression that this is not the feeling that the players have. On the goal against Lyon, where Donnarumma restarts in a longer way than what Luis Enrique asked for, where it leads directly to a goal and where Luis Enrique gets angry, there you feel that you have a base which can potentially become problematic.“
“It’s going to end very badly”
For the host of the show “100% PSG”, the situation could therefore not go in the right direction for the new Parisian coach. “ There could be a real change in the team. Namely, a coach who asks his players to force their instinct and not to do what they instinctively want to do. So either they will adhere to this speech and in the end, over the course of the year, they will succeed in playing short and it will go very well, or that is not what will happen at all. We are going to have matches like that, with Mbappé who is forced to score doubles to try to save the situation and it will end very badly.“
