MOOD – Not spared by the “warriors” of Saint-Etienne, the Parisians are paying a high price for their success in the final of the Coupe de France. Too strong…
Decidedly, bad luck does not let go of PSG. After two seasons without Neymar for the cleaver matches in the Champions League, the capital club will have to cross their fingers to be able to count on Kylian Mbappé against Atalanta, on August 12, in Lisbon. Cut out by Loïc Perrin while he was in full acceleration, the 21-year-old world champion indeed injured his right ankle on Friday, during the Parisian victory against AS Saint-Etienne, in the final of the Cup. from France (1-0). A victory that the club of the capital could pay a high price if the person concerned were to be absent for a long time … Because Mbappé is “essential”, as Thiago Silva emphasizes. “Worried? It is enough to see the images, this fault, to be worried! ”Plague Thomas Tuchel, wound up like a clock. “I do not know what to say … This is the third game in a row that Saint-Etienne takes a red card against us, the third time in the first half hour, continues the German coach at a press conference. It’s not like they were tired at the time… To play a match, a final like that… I’m very surprised. ”
Mbappé and Kehrer injured, Paredes and Di Maria heckled
Clearly, he accuses the Stéphanois of having attacked this match like savages and of having made his players take reckless risks. “Faced with this kind of team, you have to be present, defends Timothée Kolodziejczak. Afterwards, when we play, we expose ourselves a little and we have to make some mistakes. But I don’t think we’ve been too hard. We played like warriors, like men. ” Men who have not been dead hand … It started from the second minute, with the young Yvann Mason who came to stamp Neymar Jr, then at 39, when Mahdi Camara wiped his crampons on Leo’s foot Paredes. Yellow in both cases. Camara could have gotten a red on the spot… Thilo Kehrer also came out on injury in the first period after a blow, and Angel Di Maria was heckled at the end.
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Do not throw any more: the Stéphanois are right to think that they need a surplus of commitment to waver the Parisian ogre. Maybe not from there to hurt the Red and Blue nuggets … To speak only of him, Loïc Perrin is not however a bad guy, a butcher, him who was probably playing his last professional match.
“We still have small moments of management during which you have to make a commitment, but remain in control of your actions”
Claude Puel
“It’s an outing that doesn’t reflect his career at all, or the man he is,” says his teammate Jessy Moulin. Nobody will blame him, he is someone irreproachable. ” Except that on this one, the future retiree could / should have abstained. “Some had to mature, like Fofana last season. He made up for it well on this match … And there, it touches Loïc, of whom one can not say that it is a small young one, smiles Claude Puel, about these three matches in a row ended at ten against eleven against Paris. And the coach of the Greens continued: “We think we have the ball but they have such a boost, they can make a difference at any time, and it was the case … We still have small moments of management during which you have to commit to, but remain in control of your actions. It’s also about learning, you have to find the right mix. But it was a healthy engagement. I regret Mbappé’s injury, I hope it is light, but there was no intention to hurt. The intention was to play the ball. But it’s true that he’s going too fast … ”A little more and it would be Mbappé’s fault, too strong, too fast, too good!
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Obviously, Tuchel is only moderately convinced by this kind of argument. After the Greens, he attacks the referees, guilty of too much laissez-faire: “Are the players sufficiently protected? Clearly no. After this foul on Kylian, we took three yellow cards. The referee first gave a yellow for this fault (he took out the red after using the VAR, editor’s note), and we took three for claiming, for protecting the player. They are not the same criteria. I’ve always said it is a game for gamers. Spectators and viewers are there to watch the players. The most important thing is to protect the players, not just our own, all players! And it wasn’t like that today. ” On the Paris side, we just have to hope that all this will be a bad memory in a few weeks …
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