At the Parc des Princes,
It must be naivety, or else the coldness that numbed our less sharpened senses. In short, we are not quite sure that we understood what happened around Sergio Ramos, who entered for the last half hour against Brest, his first appearance at the Parc this season. Or we have understood too well, and this marriage does not bode decidedly anything other than broken crockery and complaints of fraud.
When the Spaniard returned, therefore, the 5,000 Parisian supporters, also delighted with the show, for once, made a devilish racket, as for the return of a prisoner on leave. Then what we took for a sincere enthusiasm as a good child quickly turned into indecent chambering, loud applause and cries of beasts descending from the stands each time the Iberian touched a ball, especially an easy ball.
Contento por los 3️⃣ points y por debutar en casa. Thank you for cariño views. Hope that soon our reunamos todos. #Go Paris 🔴🔵 pic.twitter.com/0wpbLSxcsX
— Sergio Ramos (@SergioRamos) January 15, 2022
The bistouquettes contest facilitated by the sparse assistance, with great blows of “I’m going to shout the loudest tonight” even bordered on unease at times, and Sergio Ramos had to end up understanding that his “new” public was having fun. Until he plays against Real and lets go of Benzema behind his back, we don’t even prefer to imagine the reaction of the Parisian supporters.
First eventful at home
These beginnings were not, however, so anecdotal. Not that we learned much on Friday evening, since the Brestois had long since abdicated that Ramos got to know the place, but his entry coincided with the switch to 3-5-2 that any observer would not too stricken with the chives that have been requested since August. The tactical scheme even seems ideal for emphasizing the qualities of the Parisian workforce while masking some of its weaknesses.
- The line of central threes helps to frame an aging Ramos and compensate for his lack of speed while still lining him up for his leadership and experience
- It allows the release of the two thoroughbreds Hakimi and Nuno Mendes, two full-backs not always impeccable in their defensive positioning but among the best on the continent in attack
- It eliminates one of the many transparent circles of PSG to keep only the two best in their field (Gueye and Verratti)
- The attack can revolve around Messi in ten behind Mbappé and Neymar when he is there, Icardi can do the trick for lack of better
“Working on this system takes time”
To wonder why we are not a PSG trainer at 300 plates a day instead of Mauricio Pochettino, whom we obviously questioned about this musical variation: are we going to listen to his sweet melody made of orderly slides and voluptuous duplication of passes in the coming weeks: “all possibilities are open in football. Go to three behind, we have already done it. It’s an option most of the time during matches, we keep it in mind. But working this system, with a line of threes and pistons, it takes time, it’s not just putting pawns and arrows on a board.
Imagine that’s good, the sponsors’ tour in Qatar having been postponed, the Parisian staff will be able to work all week at Camp des Loges. Nine days of work before Reims, an unprecedented luxury in the calendar of a Champions League club, and full of tactical implementations on the program. It’s time to try something, coach. Well, unless Sergio Ramos needs three weeks to digest his return. Don’t laugh, he needed twice as much after his only start of the season at Saint-Etienne.