Sometimes it takes little to launch a story, just a boost of fate. Presnel Kimpembe had benefited from it eight years ago when he had replaced Thiago Silva at the foot up against Barça in the Champions League (4-0). A birth certificate for French, who became world champion a year later. Like him, Illya Zabarnyi could have an opportunity to launch his Parisian history, also against the Catalan club.
Bought for around 66 million euros in Bournemouth, the Ukrainian international should hold on Wednesday for the trip to Spain, while Marquinhos is already forfeit due to discomfort to the adductor. A first life -size test in the Champions League for Zabarnyi, for whom it still seems premature to draw a first assessment in the French capital.
He comes out of a big match against OM
It is obviously on this kind of meeting that he will be judged on parts, after having delivered his most successful performance of this start to the season against OM on Monday. If his team bowed, the former Dynamo kyiv player asserted himself as the best Parisian defender in the right axis of a 3-5-2. He had not always breathed serenity during the first minutes, but the Ukrainian managed to gain power over the meeting: a rescue in front of Gouiri, effective covers, but also authoritarian interventions as on a dangerous center of Weah in the second period.
A classic that will have to serve as a reference to the 23 -year -old player, after a fairly warm beginning against Nantes, Toulouse and Lens. “”It was a difficult game to play, but we just didn't know how to make our opportunities concretize. It sometimes happens in football. We stay strong and we continue to move forward. We just missed a goal. If we had marked it, it would have changed everything. But it's the gameHe confided to the microphone of PSG TV after the match. Goals, it will be necessary to score, but above all avoid conceding on Wednesday. It will be a completely different challenge, with an adversity infinitely higher than those offered since the start of the season. Faced with Lewandowski, Zabarnyi will have the opportunity to hang a first big one in his hunting board.
