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Posted Sunday September 12, 2021 at 7:30 PM In : PSG.
The first thirty minutes of Lionel Messi against Reims on August 29th just made Bixente Lizarazu’s mouth water. The consultant is eager to watch the animation of PSG with the Argentinian.
Entered in the 66th minute against Reims at the end of August, Lionel Messi played simply, as he knows how to do: leaning on his partners in handing over and generally opening on the sides. He was able to start combining, a little bit, with Kylian Mbappé but not yet with Neymar whom he had replaced. Used the entirety of the two matches with Argentina during the truce, the match against Brazil having been interrupted at the very beginning, the Pulga should start the match against Bruges this Wednesday, September 15 for the first day of the Champions League. The former Barça player already seems in great shape. He scored a hat-trick against Bolivia, with the added bonus of a superb strike after a small bridge on his opponent. In Telefoot, Bixente Lizarazu expressed how excited he was to watch Lionel Messi combine with Neymar and Kylian Mbappé. The Brazilian and the French need this profile at their side.
“What we don’t have with Neymar who eats the ball and Mbappé who is a little more soloist”
“What impressed me against Reims is his game with one or two touches of the ball, the fact that he is driven by the idea of making his partners play. What we do not have with Neymar who really eats the ball and Mbappé who is a little more soloist. I hope it will trigger an idea of collective offensive animation and a technical relationship with Neymar and Mbappé ”, declared the 98 world champion on TF1 this Sunday morning. Neymar and Messi shone together in Barcelona but the Brazilian has adopted a much more creative role since he joined PSG. The first answers will be given on Wednesday evening even if it will obviously take more than a match for the new trio to really take its marks.
