PSG made short work of Strasbourg before challenging Milan. BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS
ANALYSE – Turnover, easy victory and winning bets, the ingredients of a successful evening for Mbappé’s PSG before challenging Milan on Wednesday in the Champions League.
«It will be much more difficult than against Milan“. This is what Luis Enrique promised on Friday, on the eve of PSG-Strasbourg. A message addressed as much to journalists… as to its players, just to concern them with this match against a team from the second half of the table, between an international window and a Champions League shock. “There was a logical concern after the break, with the idea of getting back into the swing of things, but the group managed the match well, confessed the Spanish coach after the match. We scored quickly and it strengthened our confidence, it weakened the opponent.» An opponent who never existed on Saturday (3-0), in a Parc des Princes that was almost silent due to a partial closed session after the homophobic chants against OM in September.
Quiet victory against weak Strasbourg, who made “too many mistakes» to hope, says Patrick Vieira. And even against a second PSG. Because Luis Enrique had rested some of his executives…
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