Madrid played in Villarreal, but they looked askance at Paris. The League matters, and a lot, but the Champions League is the Champions League. That’s why Benzema continued in cotton wool and that’s why Marcelo came out on stage. Also for this reason Ancelotti admits that the match was "even"”>Modric saw his working day reduced from ninety minutes to the last quarter of an hour. All precaution is little in these cases, and especially for an Ancelotti who spent a season and a half at the helm of PSG to end up winning a Ligue 1… Little loot for so much economic deployment as the one spent there. When he had the Parisians in front of him, taking the reins of Naples or Bayern, he did not enjoy victories either. warm memories.
So the crockery at La Cerámica had to be taken care of, minimizing damage in the league competition. Was achieved? Half. Half full or half empty bottle. Positive: few considered the Bale cycle in Madrid as not over, which began by confirming his football autopsy without hardly touching the ball until minute 18, but which was later vindicated with several high-level details. The Welshman, an unclassifiable footballer for many purposes, agreed with Carletto by taking him out on the field after so much time, so many injuries and so many slights. In the absence of Karim, he is not the worst spare, to the surprise of many, in the center of the attack. The defense completes the positive evaluation, with the exception of Marcelo. The others, in line with him, in the good and the bad. In other words: “Point is point”. (VB).
And PSG? Well, apparently against Rennes in the domestic competition he is not at his sweetest moment. He had to wait until the 93rd minute to get Mbappe to unclog the mess he was in. Ángel di María managed to reactivate the pulse of the team a bit by coming off the bench very late. The team mostly revolves around Kylian’s excellent form, speed and goal in its purest form, and suffers from the little physical effort of some of his declining stars. Pochettino handled the situation with caution, while Neymar and Ramos treated injuries in the boxes.
Stellar game in the Parc des Princes in Paris. European duel with stars that arrive while others hasten their end.
