The French classic passion was squad and bevel, goals interruptus, from spontaneous ones who jump onto the field to stop Messi’s counterattacks, one of those duels that confirm that sometimes football is cities that play against cities, with more passion than football, with too much anger in a stands that did not tolerate that the players of the Paris Saint-Germain approached from the corners of the pitch. The French league leader tied without goals (he now has Lens at 7 points) on his visit to Olympique de Marseille, his particular dentist chair, not so much because of the scores he reaps there as because of the hostility he encounters. In a competition with so many looks on it, it would be convenient to show another more soccer face.
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Pau López, Caleta-Car, William Saliba, Luan Peres, V. Rongier (Konrad De la Fuente, min. 70), Pol Lirola, Boubacar Kamara (Pape Alassane Gueye, min. 70), Payet, Matteo Guendouzi, Cengiz Ünder ( Gerson, min. 77) and Milik (Ahmadou Bamba Dieng, min. 77)
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Keylor Navas, Nuno Mendes, Marquinhos, Achraf Hakimi, Kimpembe, Danilo Pereira, Verratti (Idrissa Gueye, min. 48), Messi, Di María (Thilo Kehrer, min. 60), Neymar (Wijnaldum, min. 82) and Kylian Mbappe
Goals
Referee Benoît Bastien
Yellow cards V. Rongier (min. 17), Danilo Pereira (min. 84) and Marquinhos (min. 84)
Red cards Achraf Hakimi (min. 56)
Regarding the ball, the game showed a weakness of PSG, who suffered an expulsion that conditioned them more than advisable. With just over half an hour to play, the video helped change a refereeing decision and Achraf went to the dugout ejected in a last-man action. Pochettino armored himself with Kehrer and sacrificed Di María in a more political than practical decision because with nine men ahead of Navas it turned out that 33% of them (Messi, Neymar and Mbappé do not usually run after rivals). So PSG sank dangerously in defense to hold on as best it could with a line of four, another of three ahead in which Neymar was integrated as best he could to subtract and Messi and Mbappé off the hook and barely strapped.
A team with more resources than Olympique would have punished him, but the match placed him before victory and he did not know how to take it. In the midst of the collective hysteria, of which his coach, Jorge Sampaoli, also transmits, the Marseille team lacked rennet to launch for the three points, also cautious because of what he had to watch if he launched himself towards the goal.
The many had arrived in the first part, but the VAR frustrated them. Those were the best minutes of PSG, which worked when it was coupled to Messi and Neymar generating play, without a major collective plan. They scored shortly before the quarter of an hour after a center from the Brazilian that Luan Peres holed at his own door. But lines were thrown on the screen and the action was canceled. The same thing happened five minutes later, in the 21st, to frustrate the local cla after so much from Milik to the center of Lirola.
In the midst of that excitement, of goals celebrated that did not materialize, of the embarrassment that each visitor corner kick required a paraphernalia of nets, bumpers and human shields so that they could be executed, the game went through shoving. Soccer duels are like melons, many times you cannot predict if they will have substance. The problem is that in Marseille throughout the week there was more talk of violence than football, so the melon did not look good. And, indeed, it did not taste good.
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