PSG – OM: Silent stadium, offside and SOS Gigio… The Classico, this vast circus – 20 Minutes

Joys of fables told by Uber drivers on the way home from the stadium, you never know whether to swallow them naively or to laugh at them silently. That of our man suits us, so let’s believe it: English supporters who had articulated their weekend in Paris around the Classico and came out furious from a match “without atmosphere” where “Messi and Mbappé did nothing “. We can understand them. For us too, this PSG-OM will have been disappointing until the end. An hour to wait in the mixed zone for two minutes from Amine Harit to break everything. Paris did not even deign to give bread to the journalists on the spot, and warned as one cowardly drops an ex, in a hurry by text message. No one, what. Marquinhos unhappy with the Ultras strike Silence, official sponsor of the Parc des Princes. Fortunately there was this tribute to Pauleta and Katoto before kick-off to reassure us about the health of the Auteuil bend, for the rest, it was radio silence. The CUP is still sulking, the Marseillais were not invited to the party and, as almost no one else is able to create a little atmosphere at home, the most important Paris-Marseille since the extinction dinosaurs was played out in an atmosphere rather evoking a PSG-Lorient. What Marquinhos regretted after the match at the microphone of Prime Video. “I did not expect this atmosphere, said the Brazilian. A ‘clasico’, you have to put everything aside, it was not the time to do that. We understand that, they have their arguments, they may not have the answers, but pride had to be put aside for that moment. As a player I disagree. »Neymar, ray of sunshine in the darknessAs observers, we do not agree with the level of play proposed by the two teams who faced each other in the showcase match of the League of Talents while, in the At the same time, Sevilla and Real offered a completely different lemonade. We will still thank Neymar for having found his football just in time to save the furniture. He was the only one to rise to the occasion and might not be lost to football in the end given his recent performances. To the statistics (a goal and a scratched penalty), the striker added style with the pass. One of the few cool things about this match. Sampaoli, defensive possession But let’s get back to the source of our discomfort, starting with Jorge Sampaoli’s strategy. Admittedly, the Marseillais were returning from an exhausting trip to the prestigious Europa League Conference, but is that enough to justify this hyper sterile possession game with five guys behind (a whole concept)? The Argentinian justified himself in a press conference. “If we lose the ball it can go very quickly against, in front they are still the three best players in the world, that’s why the game plan was to control the game tonight. You had to have possession against a team that has three players in front who can score at any time, playing otherwise would have been suicidal. “However, it was when the Marseillais allowed themselves a little verticality at the end of the match that they became more threatening, but hey, since we push less than Jorge in the bench press, we’re not going to contradict him too much. . The great offside ball And then as if that were not enough, as if the spectators had no right to happiness, the few times the ball entered the cage, there was actually offside. Special mention for the goal refused to William Saliba, his aura was ahead of the Parisian line of defense so no goal. It’s stupid, the service of Dimitri Payet had its place somewhere in the museum of modern art in Paris. We pass you the goals denied to Messi, Mbappé and almost all the PSG players, otherwise we are still there in three days. Donnarumma needs help Cirque Pinder, always. We save the best for last. Both because it’s the best of the worst, and because we had qualms about shooting the Donnarumma ambulance. We thought that the Italian had nothing more to offer after his gift to Caleta-Car on the Marseille equalizer, but that was without counting on the infinite generosity of the goalkeeper who went from Manuel Neuer to Apoula Edel in 2, 5 seconds. From a cold-blooded out and hook came a FIFA bug-style panic attack, in which poor Gigio lost outright use of his brain to snipe the billboard. A ridiculous throw-in that he will have at least been able to catch up with through the anti-game. In short, this Classico will have made us laugh, but not necessarily for the right reasons.