PSG finished the week well. Five days after its defeat against Bayern Munich and the injuries to Ousmane Dembélé, Nuno Mendes and especially Achraf Hakimi, who will no longer play with the Rouge et Bleu until next January, the capital club indeed won at Groupama Stadium (2-3) thanks to a winning goal scored in added time.
Reaching the score for the first time after Warren Zaire-Emery’s opener, PSG undoubtedly thought they had done the hard part by regaining the advantage shortly after the half-hour mark thanks to Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. But that was without counting on a new deep ball, this time aimed at Ainsley Maitland-Niles. Illia Zabarnyi was caught behind his back again and Lucas Chevalier was surprised by the English international’s lob.
The two summer recruits have once again disappointed and the criticism is becoming more and more severe. “Zabarnyi who was monstrous in the Premier League last season at Bournemouth, is it his cousin who arrived? With each ball in the back, he is caught. In every duel, he is caught. He takes the tide, he needs buoys”lamented Walid Acherchour at the microphone of RMC.
Luis Enrique exonerates Lucas Chevalier not Ilyia Zabarnyi
And for the former DAZN, Lucas Chevalier is just as guilty as his Ukrainian partner. “Zabarnyi and Chevalier, they are at fault on all the goals. It’s a huge handicap! They don’t have the excuse of fatigue from last season. They are catastrophic, they are killing the team! “, he continued.
If he pointed out the defensive errors at the origin of the two Lyon goals, Luis Enrique on the other hand exonerated his goalkeeper. “On the defensive side, we made mistakes on both goals… You have to know when to advance the line (offside) and when not to advance it, normally it’s a mistake that you don’t make,” he explained, adding about the former Lille player: “The mistake was not the goalkeeper’s. You have to move forward if there is good pressure on the ball, otherwise you have to run backwards. »
