PSG fans forgave Neymar, who played brilliantly, but Mbappé is starting to cause problems – ŠPORT.SK

yesterday 13:00 | The Brazilian footballer Neymar was the best player of the champion PSG over the weekend and was immediately pardoned by the Parisian audience. When he left at the end to replace Montpellier at 5:1, he received a huge ovation. Also read VIDEO: Seven goals in Paris. Messi in the shadows, Neymar the star of the evening Even during the match, he enjoyed applause on the open stage after his plays. The man who, at the end of last season, embodied the dissonance between the team and the fan community. She has now charmed even the new coach. “I thank the Parisians for the warm welcome,” DPA quotes Christophe Galtier. After Kylian Mbappé unexpectedly signed a new contract with the French champion after the season with even more surprising wording, Neymar also found himself on the “behind the scenes list” of unwanted players. The French gunner also has above-standard competences in the contract, and he allegedly tried to get his Brazilian teammate to leave. But he got injured at the beginning of the season and just watched his club boss dominate the field. Neymar first led his team to a triumph in the home Super Cup (4:0 over Nantes) with two goals, and then to a clear 5:0 victory in the 1st round of Ligue over Clermont. At the beginning of the season, he scored a (winning) goal and three assists. In the 2nd round, his fantastic form was taken away by Montpellier, to whom he scored two goals, while the second was an exhibition acrobatic header, which was also appreciated by coach Galtier with a special reaction. He lost his hat-trick with another great performance after a great collaboration with Lionel Messi only because of Presnel Kimpembe’s narrow offside in the build-up to the action. He also lost an assist on Mbappe’s goal due to a header by an opponent’s defender. After two rounds, Neymar leads the top scorer table in France (3 goals + 3 assists). In total, he registers 5+3 in three competitive matches of the season. In the evaluation of the renowned portal SofaScore, he received 9.1, 10 and 9.2, i.e. in the highest possible ten, all excellent marks. However, in the shadow of PSG’s elimination in the round of 16 of the Champions League, his longer competitive streak remained hidden – since March 25, he has scored or assisted in each of the 11 matches. AFP points out: “Neymar is building on what he collected last season, scoring nine goals in the last nine Ligue 1 games”. The Brazilian soccer wizard was injured last season and missed 13 games between December 1 and February 12. Three days later, he came on in the final 19 minutes of the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Real Madrid and sent Mbappé into the only scoring action with a back-foot. From then until last weekend, Neymar scored 16 goals and assisted 8 in 18 competitive matches. With the current statistical trend, he has a balance of 1.33 points per game in this calendar year. He “didn’t score” in only three duels. Kylian Mbappé, Paris Saint-Germain Source: SITA Mbappé sent Mbappé on the goal freeway in the second leg of the round of 16 and PSG led 2:0 over Real after three halves, even after 150 of the standard 180 of the double-header. However, the Parisians lost their promotion within a few minutes due to a series of mistakes by the goalkeeper and the defensive line. Paradoxically, in the following months, during “frictions” with fans who turned away from the team, the name Neymar was mentioned in particular. Mbappé was the best scorer of the season, Messi has his charisma and moderate demeanor, so the responsibility for the failure of the galaxy of stars fell on a man who begged for criticism mainly due to his eccentric demeanor. In the meantime, Real Madrid very similarly “made good” with the other three giants (Chelsea, ManCity, Liverpool) and won the LM. Apart from the controversies, Neymar continued to play good football and the fans probably realized that they had wronged him a bit. However, the idyll from the beginning of the season can be shaky, because the cold relationship between Neymar and Mbappé was felt from the beginning in the match against Montpellier (5:2). After returning from a minor injury, Mbappé did not get lost on the field, but he often failed to penetrate and when he chose a less advantageous pass to the opposite side in Vitinha’s outnumbering, the French sharpshooter demonstratively did not continue the attack. The peak of his frustration was brought by an unconverted penalty, and when Neymar converted his eleven 20 minutes later, Mbappé did not go to the congratulatory ball. Penalties can be a significant neuralgic point and coach Galtier is in a difficult situation. He said on the press: “We had a waiting list for this match. Kylian shot first. It was logical that Neymar went for the next one. We’ll see how it goes.” However, according to the British media, in the meantime Neymar has allegedly heard that Mbappé remains the first choice, and the Brazilian has already managed to react negatively on social networks.