PSG’s recurring away problems this season are (still) not likely to worry Luis Enrique. The Spanish coach, invited this Friday to review the failure of his team on the AC Milan pitch on Tuesday in the Champions League, did not admit there was an error in the approach to the match. Like after the shipwreck in Newcastle in October.
“A great team plays the same way at home or away,” he said. Obviously it’s more pleasant to play at home, with the help of our supporters, it can make us bolder, more comfortable. But the playing field is the same size so I don’t see why the attitude of the team should change when the public is not in our favor. »
Where Luis Enrique is a little off is that the criticisms made against the Parisians do not concern so much the offensive intentions as the character displayed. When he is pushed around, this PSG struggles to reach the same level of intensity and therefore to install his game. But the Spaniard concedes nothing. “There was not an away match where PSG was not competitive and where they did not struggle, even if we can be more or less effective,” he said.
While waiting to return to the C1 on November 28, the Parisians have a good little test to face this Saturday on the lawn of Reims, 4th in the championship. “It’s one of the best teams of 2023 in L1, it has clear ideas, knows how to use the ball well, use spaces, press,” praised Luis Enrique. We are not expecting a quiet match, it will be very intense, complicated, we have to be concentrated from the start so as not to be surprised. » Whatever he says, he will surely scrutinize his team’s respondent with great attention.