With Lucas Chevalier’s withdrawal, it is Russian goalkeeper Matvey Safonov who starts this Saturday evening against Stade Rennais. A first for the former Krasnodar goalkeeper this season, right on the day when Illia Zabarnyi was ill and therefore forfeited. Real health problem or fake illness to avoid sharing the meadow with Safonov? In any case in Ukraine, observers seem relieved: “we don’t know if the illness is a pretext or not, it’s just speculation. What I can say is that if they had played together, it would have caused a scandal in Ukraine, especially in the context and the new Russian strikes. Russian propaganda would have exploited this situation. This is big news in Ukraine and fans are talking about it today. Some are glad they don’t play together», explained a Ukrainian journalist to our colleagues at RMC Sport.
Another journalist from Ukraine followed in his colleague’s footsteps and added in the columns of RMC : “there will be negative reactions in Ukraine, that’s for sure if it happens. Although I don’t know if it would have repercussions on the player, because he assured that it was a professional relationship“. Contacted by the editorial staff of RMCthe Ukrainian Federation did not wish to add fuel to the fire and clarified that everything had already been explained at the start of the season by Zabarnyi during a major interview exclusive to the Ukrainian media Football 360. The war in Ukraine continues to loom large in the daily life of Paris Saint-Germain and the capital club seems to be managing the situation perfectly for the moment.
