A crucial meeting. A few months ago, Paris Saint-Germain ticked the dates of February 14 and March 8 on their calendar. This is where the French champions were due to face Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16. After being beaten in the first leg at the Parc des Princes (1-0), PSG had to do a feat last night at the Allianz Arena. But that was obviously not in the ropes of the team of Christophe Galtier (2-0), who faced several injuries but also Germans who managed to muzzle Mbappé and Messi. Two transparent stars in Munich.
Mbappé and Messi missed their match
And the two players are expensive this Thursday like the whole French team for that matter. The FM editorial team gave the scores of 2 to the Argentinian and 3 to the French. For its part, L’Equipe awarded a 3 to each of the stars. Le Parisien gave the same rating to Messi and was a bit more generous with KM7, who collected a 3.5. But the two players, like others like Marco Verratti. The Italian, who obtained a 2 following his catastrophic match, was smashed by Daniel Riolo on the airwaves of RMC Sport.
“Verratti, you send him back to Pescara, he can eat his little skewers, walk by the sea, drink his shots, smoke his cigarettes. He’ll be quiet and won’t bother anyone. And then he’ll go do an Urban with his friends like that. He’s an urban player! I’ve been telling you this for years. I don’t even know if he’s a starter in my son’s team! (…) Zaire-Emery he is 16 years old, he puts him in misery. Like him, Lionel Messi, with whom Thomas Müller was ruthless, explaining that CR7 had always been more dangerous against them, was massacred. And it’s Jérôme Rothen, always on RMC Sportwhich was the most violent.
The Argentinian gets turned on
“Messi, we don’t want it. He does not want to invest in this club! I saw his statement where he said ‘I’m well ‘acclimatized’ but what are you acclimatized to my dear? Because you scored 18 goals or 16 assists this year against Angers and Clermont? But in the matches that matter, it disappears completely! Where it’s a joke is that we saw his matches at the World Cup, I saw his movements, how he invested himself. I don’t mind it being the national team jersey, a separate thing, but hey, respect the club in the capital a little, which allows you to keep a standing and a salary. Only PSG could give him that and, of course, PSG fell with both feet in it because they thought Messi was going to make us win. But he won us nothing at all.”
He then added: “last year against Real, pschitt. He was at the Bernabeu and he hid like the others. Everyone fell on Donnarumma but he did nothing more. The match in Marseille, I don’t mind. They played a good Ligue 1 side but definitely not a Champions League one. Everyone said: ‘oh the assist for Mbappé’. Of course he has a good foot and a good eye and he will still have them at 50. But he is unfit for the top level with this state of mind -there” In Le Parisien, Jérôme Leroy believes that Messi was extinguished by the Germans, just like Hakimi or Nuno Mendes.
Mbappé is not spared
For his part, Edouard Cissé pointed to the midfielders in the columns of The team. “Physically, they weren’t there at all. The midfielders were asphyxiated, they were no longer pressing and the Bavarians were able to manage quietly. Vitinha, Ruiz and Verratti were dead, they weren’t putting in any more intensity, they had given everything in the first half. I have the impression that they are not used to raising their level of intensity, since they never do it in the Championship. But in the Champions League, it is mandatory. Bayern were able to make the pass to ten at the end and, as the Parisian midfielder did not recover any ball, Mbappé was useless.
The Frenchman, perfectly mastered by Upamecano, is generally spared in France. But abroad, it’s different. Besides his future, his performance has been criticized. “We are looking for Kylian Mbappé”wrote Sports world. In Germany, Kicker gave it a rating of 4.5 (1 is the best rating in Germany, 6 the worst). The media SZ for his part wrote: “a Bavarian XI beats two stars. Mbappe? Messi? Choupo Moting! Faced with disappointing top Parisian players, the Munich residents show what they can do against such an opponent. PSG stars went through yesterday. They are this morning in the crosshairs of many media.
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