The butterfly effect. How would this evening have ended if, after the fifth minute of unbreathable added time, “Auba” had succeeded in his catch? Pacho on the ground with his four irons in the air, Chevalier’s nets wide open, the Olympian star, author of a fantastic entry, would undoubtedly have placed the icing on the cake. And OM would have finally brought back a trophy to the feet of the Good Mother… The story would have been beautiful. Too beautiful.
The reality is raw and bitter. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang got confused, lost the ball, before helplessly watching PSG snatch penalties after a lightning counterattack (2-2, 90+5). A disastrous session… The Gabonese had nevertheless done everything, once Roberto De Zerbi had released his bridle (68), to fall asleep in paradise and not in hell. But it was there, caressed by the flames which consumed their hopes, that “Auba” and his three other comrades thrown into the arena (Traoré, Murillo and O’Riley), painfully closed their eyes.
The pompom for O’Riley
To experience an emotional elevator, you must first climb, in principle climb very high before crashing. The opposite also works, but in Kuwait OM wrote…
