History has shown us that it is impossible to predict anything in football. Anything can happen, even situations that no one would have ever imagined. However, if there is one predictable thing that happens every time, it is the player who scores against his former team. And this double confrontation showed it again with Dembélé’s pawn in the first leg then this equalizer before half-time during the return combined with the penalty scratched to allow Kylian Mbappé to offer qualification to PSG. It doesn’t matter if until then Dembouz had only scored one goal since his arrival in the capital, it doesn’t matter if he had only scored two goals in the knockout phase with Barça, it doesn’t matter if he is shown clumsy in the execution of his corners or in his combinations with Hakimi, this theory of the goal against his ex has never been contradicted. Like the one that wants a player attacked by the public (insults, whistles, “Judas” tickets with his photo) always manages to silence these same supporters.
Barcola, the X factor
All smiles with his man of the match trophy at the end of the match, where he spoiled Borussia’s qualification that Canal + was trying to keep secret, Dembélé can thank his friend on the other wing: Bradley Barcola. In the first leg, his entry into play at the break, combined with the replacement of Dembouz on one side, had already changed the face of PSG who had then scored two goals in 6 minutes. On the return, it was again he who allowed Paris to get back on the right track after Raphinha’s opening score by giving Jules Koundé a nightmare, but above all by causing the expulsion of Ronald Araújo before making the decisive pass to Ousmane Dembélé. It is very far away, the Barcola of the beginning of the season which only had the right to parts of the match and which gathered chances against Newcastle. However, Luis Enrique has always continued to have confidence in his braided winger who now always starts in the matches that count, as was the case during the eighth first leg of the Champions League against Real Sociedad, where it was already he who had allowed PSG to take off after being manhandled for 45 minutes.
This blue dream
Placed in the center against Rennes in the Coupe de France (1-0), against OM in Ligue 1 (2-1) or during the first period of the quarter-final first leg against Barça, Ousmane Dembélé had shown beautiful things, but this double confrontation reminded us that it is on the side that he is happiest. And the most dangerous. What do the first three matches mentioned have in common? The absence of Barcola, injured during the international break with the hopes. A category that he will probably not see again since it is obvious that Didier Deschamps, in front of his television screen and enjoying the eyes of his assistant Guy Stéphan present in Montjuïc, saw the progress of the former Lyonnais, as well as his excesses on his lane and his ability to single-handedly explode a defensive block. Even if DD is struggling to integrate new players into their group, Coman’s injury and Kolo Muani’s poor form will probably work in favor of Barcola who could visit Germany this summer. Before that, he will already be able to taste the German pitches during the semi-final against Dortmund. And even if he loves to change his composition every match, Luis Enrique should no longer move his wings where Barcola and Dembélé have left to settle for many more years. And good news for Dembouz, it’s another old club of his that finds itself on the path of the Parisians. The opportunity to once again prove the strength of the ex’s theory.
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