At the Parc des Princes,
Hand raised in the direction of the Brazilian, Mbappé looks at Neymar, grimacing, as if to say “I know, I badly forgot you, I’m sorry”. Moments earlier, indeed, Kyky screwed up. We rewind: Perfectly launched in depth by Messi as soon as Paris returned from the locker room, while Paris quietly led 2-0, the French TGV dropped off a Turin defender on the station platform and rushed headlong towards Perin’s goal. Slightly eccentric, he then prefers to hit hard from the right rather than serving his teammate, who had just hit a monstrous acceleration to offer him the perfect solution at the far post.
It was the gesture to make, the whole stadium saw it at the time. Le Ney too, as evidenced by this black look launched at Mbappé, who then prefers to dodge it for fear of burning in the fires of hell. This unfortunate oversight could have been harmless if Juve had not planted in stride and plunged Paris into its doubts. On arrival, this will be inconsequential but this action is all the more frustrating as it would have concluded a perfect evening in the technical relationship between the two men.
Goal of anthology and rediscovered connection
Far from the penalty-gate and the whining of Mbappé, this match against Juve on Tuesday evening offered us what is most beautiful when two players of this caliber agree to unite their talent and speak the same football. The must remaining this de-ge-ne-res goal scored by Mbappé with a volley after an indecent squint from Ney with the outside of the right foot. Entangled in the middle of six Turinese, the two men invented spaces where there were none, proving to their detractors that this so-called dead and buried relationship was just a classic passade between two boulards except category.
This is more or less what the French had explained the day before at a press conference with these words to him. “We have always had a relationship based on respect but with cold moments and hot moments, he said. There are times when we are the best of friends and other times when we talk less. But there is a lot of respect between us. Life is not linear with two character players”.
Galtier is careful not to offend anyone
This fluctuating calorific relationship has also been at the center of Christophe Galtier’s attention in recent weeks, particularly after the confusion of August, in order to spare both the child-king to whom we have spun the truck keys this summer and the old wolf who has not said his last word. For the time being, the human management of the Parisian coach seems to have borne fruit, but he knows that he will be walking all season on a thin layer of ice capable of giving way at any time.
This is why he did not want to make boxes on Tuesday evening, at a post-match press conference, when one of our colleagues asked him if he was going to “pull Mbappé’s ears for forgetting Neymar for a potential 3-0”. Response from “Galette”: “I did not review the match but I imagine that you analyzed this action. It is also the obsession of a striker who wants to score. You tell me that Neymar is unmarked, I trust you but has Kylian seen him? I do not know. Was the pass possible? In any case, I am very satisfied with the match of the three attacking players, who gave a lively and alert game, being connected to the midfielders. We extinguish the beginnings of fire and we caress everyone in the direction of the hair, it’s still the best way to not offend anyone and to get the most out of everyone.