Author of a double and a decisive pass during the Parisian victory at the Vélodrome stadium (3-0) on Sunday evening, the attacker transcends a PSG handed over on the right rails after a difficult period.
by Gilles ROF (Marseille, correspondent)
We had known it for some time now. But the victory of Paris Saint-Germain in Marseille (3-0), Sunday February 26 at the end of the 25th day of Ligue 1, definitively confirms the axiom: there is a PSG without Kylian Mbappé and a PSG with.
Deprived of his attacker, Paris, ghostly, had sunk on February 8 in the French Cup (2-1), engulfed by the Marseille commitment in the cauldron of the Vélodrome stadium. For this second round in the championship, the conditions of the experience were almost the same. A cold a little more spicy with a few snowflakes in the Provencal sky but such a hot atmosphere in the stands, where 65,800 spectators were present, beaten crowd.
OM’s ambition seemed intact, reinforced by the possibility of returning to two points from the Parisian leader in the standings, and finally contesting the title. But, this time, Mbappé, the “Kid de Bondy”, was present on the lawn. And he took less than half an hour to kneel the Marseille defense. Before crucifying it at the start of the second period to complete the match with a balance sheet of two goals, a decisive pass and seven shots, four of which are framed. A performance that once again shows how impermeable the French attacker is to the public pressure as well as that of the issue. 2> “a player from another planet”
“He’s a player from another planet,” Igor Tudor, OM coach, is said to be. For the Croatian, the difference between Paris Saint-Germain outclassed in the French Cup and the one who has just punished his team holds in three elements: “Their attitude, their motivation, their number 7”. The one wears a certain Kylian Mbappé.
“He is surely one of the best players in the world. He’s going quickly. Everything he does, he does it with great intensity. He is present in big meetings”, notes, notes For his part, Christophe Galtier, the PSG coach. Who, diplomat, does not forget to greet “collective performance” of the rest of his team. For his part, the Parisian president, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, at the origin of the staggering contract which made that his attacker have not yet left the capital, savored: “I am very proud of him and proud that he is at PSG “.
A few hours before the meeting, while the most fervent of the Marseille supporters prepared the tifo of the southern turn – the show that marks the entrance to the players – Agathe, the twenty, a student and member of the South Winners, summed up the perfectly General feeling about the Parisian striker: “I don’t like him, but I can’t help but be afraid of it.” A fear reinforced by the absence of two of the most efficient defenders of Olympique From Marseille since the start of the season, Chancel Mbemba, suspended, and Samuel Gigot, injured. A fear similar to that which paralyzed the players of Bayern Munich, two weeks earlier, when Kylian Mbappé came into play during the eighth round of the Champions League at the Parc des Princes. Missing, with two goals refused, to switch the meeting (0-1).
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