PSG suffered on Tuesday against Bayern Munich. This was particularly true in the first half when the Bavarians played with eleven men. The Parisians were then dominated in all areas of the game and one of the few to manage to make a difference was Bradley Barcola.
Alas, the former Lyonnais missed his two scoring opportunities (14e30e), thus stretching his drought a little further in the Champions League. The French international in fact went on Tuesday for an eleventh match in a row without scoring in C1, his last goal in the competition still dating back to the capital club’s festival against Brest, during the return play-off match.
And by his own admission, the Parisian striker is caught up in his current physical limitations. “The sequence of matches hurts and I’m starting to feel it. It’s starting to pull,”
he whispered after the meeting on Tuesday, when he no longer seems to have the same explosiveness as last season.
Bradley Barcola, an “ordinary player”
But for Daniel Riolo, the observation is quite different. “He’s still the same. He is good at taking up space, he succeeds in certain dribbles, his accelerations can be sharp… but up front, we are not with a guy of the caliber of Luis Diaz, Michael Olise, Désiré Doué, Dembélé or Saka at Arsenal…”, he confided about him at the microphone of RMC.
“He’s still among the good players, but we’re not looking at an ‘out of class’ guy, a guy who catches the eye,
he continued. We are dealing with a fairly ordinary player who expresses himself in an extremely favorable context because he is given confidence in an extraordinary collective. Yes, he has the qualities to make a difference, but I will always find his technique limited compared to a world-class player. »
