The Tops and Flops of PSG vs OL: A Detailed Analysis

The tops

• Barcola, what a project…

This kid is becoming phenomenal. Five days after a dense and decisive performance in Barcelona, ​​Bradley Barcola this time drove his training club crazy. On the last or penultimate pass on the first three Parisian goals, he was, without doubt, the man of the match. Each of his checks caused a serious imbalance and put OL to torture. Barcola is full of confidence, he shines on his right side. So much so that we wonder, today, how Didier Deschamps could do without it at the Euro. What progress…

Bradley Barcola, man of the match against OL

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• Luis Enrique, the perfect shot

This is the kind of evening that will reassure Luis Enrique in his certainties. Firstly because his team has rarely recited such a successful collective score in Ligue 1. It is as if Paris, after nine months under his command, had finally assembled all the pieces of the puzzle. This Sunday, it was a symphony, especially in the first half, the best in Paris this season in L1. The ball lifts, the offensive combinations, the solidarity behind, the collective pressing: everything worked well. And PSG didn’t even need to play Ousmane Dembélé or Kylian Mbappé. Eventually, the absences at kick-off of the championship’s top scorer will become a non-issue. This is not the smallest feat of the Spanish technician.

• Ramos, it’s getting serious

Casually, Gonçalo Ramos’ season is starting to look like something. By offering himself yet another double against Lyon in a register in which he excels, that of a pure finisher, the Portuguese has been piling up the stats for several matches (seven goals in the last nine days of the championship). Unlike Randal Kolo Muani, who also arrived this summer, Ramos is out of the trap. He now has yet to score in the Champions League but he finally seems to be on the right track.

Gonçalo Ramos scored a double against Lyon

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Les flops

• A shock ? Not really…

For years, Ligue 1 has been looking for a second force to make Paris doubt. OL’s trip this Sunday offered a clash, or supposed as such, between the two best teams in Ligue 1 in 2024. Shock, combat, suspense, there was none at the Parc des Princes. Firstly because PSG arrives at a point in its season where it is unplayable. Then, because the gap between him and any other team remains, whatever the context, too large to hope for anything. This PSG-OL was folded in two minutes. For emotions, pray to look elsewhere.

• Lyon, too fragile to be ambitious

Lyon has regained its ambitions in the ranking thanks to a fairly incredible 2024. But OL cannot yet look Paris in the eye. The gap was abysmal this Sunday, but Lyon wanted to shake up Paris by playing high, by pressing. Problem: his base is not yet solid enough to allow such audacity against the future champion. The two goals conceded in six minutes and the arrows behind OL’s backs punished this little crime of lèse-majesté. OL will recover and the main thing is to have saved their skin in the elite after a nightmarish start. But this match looks like a lesson one month before a Coupe de France final… against Paris.

• Kolo Muani seeks the light

This Sunday, Paris was a party and, once again, Randal Kolo Muani did not receive an invitation card. The former Nantes player never weighed in on the debates. Erased, too rarely in the passing circuits, he was not involved in any of the four goals of the evening. Worse, he was conspicuous by his lack of confidence during his rare initiatives and his ball catches betray the doubt in which Kolo Muani seems immersed today. If Gonçalo Ramos has managed to raise his head, RDK is still in the doldrums. It is undoubtedly the only shadow of the evening for a flamboyant PSG.

2024-04-21 22:03:00
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