This season, Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino has opted to alternate between his goalkeepers Gianluigi Donnarumma and Keylor Navas. A bad choice for the former goalkeeper of the French team Fabien Barthez.
Fabien Barthez did not appreciate the choice of Pochettino.
The management of goalkeepers at Paris Saint-Germain has been talked about a lot since last summer. For his part, the Parisian coach Mauricio Pochettino has always assumed the establishment of an alternation between Gianluigi Donnarumma and Keylor Navas.
However, the Argentinian technician still put him on hold during the knockout stages of the Champions League with the Italian’s two starts against Real Madrid (1-0, 1-3). A choice that did not pay off with the error of the former Milanese during the return leg.
Barthez deplores this management
For the former goalkeeper of the France team Fabien Barthez, this fault by Donnarumma did not represent a surprise given the exercise experienced by the Transalpin. In a way, what happened to him makes sense. He wins the Euro, he is full of confidence, he arrives in Paris and we put him in competition with Navas. I respect coaches a lot, I respect Pochettino enormously and I know how difficult this job is, but putting two goalkeepers of this level in competition does not help the team.analyzed the 1998 world champion in the columns of the daily L’Equipe this Sunday.
What is the message you send your keepers? What psychological dispositions do you place them in? who do you really trust for big dates? What do outfield players say to each other? You instill doubt in everyone, he continued. Before this quack Madrid, this alternation has however worked correctly on the sporting level. But behind the scenes, it was actually said that the two men were logically frustrated by this situation.
The importance of a number 1
According to the former Marseillais, Pochettino made a mistake at the start of the season by deciding not to install an indisputable number 1. With the recruitment of Donnarumma, PSG should have even sent Navas out to put him in the best conditions. And then, it’s the competition that makes you progress, not the training. A guy like Donnarumma – or Navas for that matter – he has to play. What happened at Real is the consequence of everything, Barthez finished. A false good idea which ultimately harmed the exercise of PSG.
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