That’s what we call a winning comeback! While he started for the first time since the trip to Munich, on November 26, 2024, Ousmane Dembélé lived up to expectations this Sunday against Lyon (3-1). Available and decisive. Author of the opening score with a resumption from the left in the 8th minute on a good cross from Désiré Doué, the number 10 of PSG showed the way to follow. First as a center, in the first period, then on the right during the second act, the former Barcelona player did not do everything well but he knew how to instill the right tempo to be at the origin of several clear chances.
A very satisfying match that he had the opportunity to comment on during his visit to the mixed zone after the match: “We knew it was going to be a difficult match. Lyon is coming back well, it’s a quality team with very good players up front and behind. You had to be serious to beat them. In the first 15 minutes we put a lot of intensity, we didn’t let them breathe. We were rewarded. »
During this same appearance in front of journalists, Dembélé also did not escape questions about his relationship with his trainer. While Luis Enrique said he was angry with him after his expulsion against Bayern, speaking of a “serious error towards the collective” last month, the Spanish coach had chosen to remove him from his starting eleven for the last meetings. A decision which would not have pleased the Frenchman, already excluded from the group, two months earlier, for the trip to Arsenal in the Champions League. Between the two men, the relationship has not always been smooth and has even crumbled in recent times.
“As he said at a press conference, we are not brothers, he is not my father. We are not broexplained the French international this Sunday evening. It’s a coach-player relationship. I’ve known him for a little longer. We try to do everything so that Paris Saint-Germain grows, wins titles, plays well and pleases everyone. »
A seemingly sincere speech, halfway between appeasement and another piece in the machine. Without denying the friction, the 27-year-old striker did not want to add fuel to the fire.