League 1. Round 24
Paris, Parc des Princes
PSG – Lille 4:1
Goals: Barcola 6, Marquinhos 22, Dembele 28, Douai 37 – David 80
PSG started the calendar month with a routine defeat on the domestic stage. Lille became the latest victim of Luis Enrique's team. The Parisians decided not to waste any extra energy themselves, and not to demoralize their opponents before their Champions League game. Therefore, they limited themselves to a strong performance only in the first half, during which Chevalier scored 4 goals.
And this despite the fact that Luka was spectacular on the line and made a couple of spectacular saves. In one episode, he made three saves in a few seconds. And before that, he pulled a dead ball from Neves into the bottom corner. Such activity at his goal is both about the chemistry in the PSG attack, which is currently in full swing. And about the complete unpreparedness of the “dogs” for the match.
Bruno Genesio spared a couple of key players before the trip to Dortmund on Tuesday, leaving David and Haraldsson. And he clearly did not waste time preparing before the trip to the capital, because the whole focus is on the Champions League. All the signature things in the PSG game worked great, and the “dogs” made practically no adaptations to the capital monsters – except for Bakker in the role of a defensive winger under Hakimi.
Mendes was tearing apart the opposing side. And the four at the back were regularly overloaded by the PSG attack and simply created moments in an indecent amount. Dembele's third goal was super indicative in this sense. Some defend against PSG with 6 people in the last line, the “dogs” – in their usual 4-2-2-2. Mendes also regularly lured Meunier, and below there remained 3 on 5 in favor of the PSG attack stars.
PSG's matches in Ligue 1 should be tuned in with a special purpose. Not to see the competitive struggle and the chopping. But to watch the combinations and highlights that usually come from 2-3 matches of other teams. Be that as it may, the result today clearly did not bother either of them. The Champions League and only the Champions League. A chance to prove something for Enrique and a chance to surprise and earn money for Lille.
PSG: Donnarumma – Mendes (Pacho, 62), Beraldo, Marquinhos, Hakimi (Zaire-Emery, 62) – Neves (Vitinha, 63), Fabian, Douai (Lee Kang-in, 75) – Barcola, Ramos, Dembele (Kvaratskhelia, 63)
Lille: Chevalier – Gudmundsson (Ismaily, 80), Alessandro, Diakite, Meunier – Andre, Bentaleb – Bakker (Haraldsson, 46), Angel Gomez (Mbappe, 46), Moukau (Bouhaddi, 63) – Akpom (David, 63)
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