“It’s football. Football is like that. Paris Saint-Germain won nothing, nothing. If you think about what you’ve won, you’re not going to win anything! There is no credit. You have to show every day, every match, every training, that you are ready. Otherwise it’s easy to rest and slide. » This is what Luis Enrique said after the 2-2 draw snatched from Rennes thanks to a double from Ferran Torres. A clear message in response to a question about Ousmane Dembélé.
Coming out at the break against Rennes, absent against Lille and coming into play for around twenty minutes against Monaco, Ousmane Dembélé was experiencing a sluggish start to the season until this Wednesday evening. He swept away the first doubts by delivering a major performance against Slovan Bratislava. Obviously, the opponent was not of the caliber of the best teams in the competition, but Dembélé displayed the necessary intensity, with movement, permutations, two goals, a few misses too, and two assists for Ferran Torres.
“I hope to have even more minutes”
Asked by Canal+ At the end of the meeting, he in turn sent a message to his coach. ” Of course. After a somewhat complicated start where I didn’t play much… I only played 20.45 minutes, it wasn’t easy to come back. Today, I’m happy, I have 60 minutes in my legs. We had to win because we had started our season badly, and we had to start well in the Champions League. We are happy, I am happy with my performance too. We have to get back into the league too, we have to continue”he said. Relaunched on his state of mind at the moment, also with a contract extension to be validated, he went further.
“Very good, when I’m on the pitch, I don’t think about that (its extension, editor’s note). We had to get back physically, after the World Cup and little vacation. I feel better and better. I hope to have even more minutes to be able to get into the rhythm. And also in selection. To score, to make assists, to win, everything I love about football. (…) We started badly, against Lens and in the championship too, we had difficulty. It was a very nice evening, we must continue like this, be even more demanding. We have won 2 Champions Leagues, all the teams want to beat us. New people also need to learn quickly. We want to win a lot of matches and trophies. » Dembélé seduced on the pitch and showed that he was on the way to his best level. And he won’t be able to do otherwise since the competition has gone up a notch with the Parisian summer transfer window. Désiré Doué and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, on the sidelines throughout the match, also understood this well this evening.
