Luis Enrique has started his second season with PSG. Despite some mishaps last season, the Spaniard has managed to win over everyone, the management, the locker room and the fans. The management of the Mbappé case last year did not really bother him. He is not here to have qualms. He has instead focused on managing his group and implementing his playing ideas: ball control, versatility of men, etc.
There is, however, one area that the Asturian is deliberately neglecting, and that is set pieces. Once PSG’s fatal weapon, under Laurent Blanc and Unai Emery in particular, the capital club has been much less efficient in this area for months, and this, in both areas. There is an essential reason for this. There has been almost no work in this area in training since the arrival of Luis Enrique.
No assistant works in this particular area.
Already a fault last year, we had seen it in particular during the double confrontations against FC Barcelona and against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, PSG suffered again, especially on defensive set pieces, at the start of the season. During the first day (3-1 victory), the goal from Le Havre came from this situation. Against Montpellier the following week, and this despite the spanking at MHSC (6-0), the Parisians still did not reassure.
The coach himself acknowledges that his team is not specifically built to shine in these set pieces, especially with the late sales this summer of Danilo Pereira and Manuel Ugarte.It is obvious that our team is not very big physically.“, acknowledges Luis Enrique. He has not assigned a specific assistant to work on this defect, as Zoumana Camara did in the past. This may be changing, however. The Team reports that this area had been studied closely before the match against Lille, a team particularly strong in this phase of the game.
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