This Wednesday evening, hexagonal football lovers had to feast. Indeed, on behalf of the semi-finals of the Coupe de France, OL hosted, at Groupama Stadium for a place in the final at the Stade de France, Paris Saint-Germain, which is a week away from facing Dortmund. Despite the opening score for Martin Terrier, Rudi Garcia’s players exploded in flight after the exclusion for a second yellow from Marçal, and lost five goals to one.
But this score does not reflect everything. Indeed, for a long time Paris SG had a hard time in the game and had to rely on their individualities. Kylian Mbappé is one of them and he walked away with the ball of the match since he scored a hat-trick, with the goal of equalization in particular. Inevitably, in our columns, we elected him man of the meeting with a good score of 8.5. His trainer, Thomas Tuchel, was therefore obviously delighted with his performance.
He also shone with his tension
” He was very strong for a few weeks, he had a difficult match with us against Dortmund, in a difficult position, it is clear. It was clear to me that it was difficult for him, that he can perhaps suffer a little with Ney without rhythm, but together they are strong. But after the match against Dortmund, he showed a tremendous reaction in every training, against Dijon and today he is very strong. He used his speed very intelligently, he is very decisive, he is in good shape, it is very very good Said the German at the post-match press conference. Pablo Sarabia was also won over by the KM7 match. “We are very proud of what he does. We know what he can do but we don’t know how far he can go. “
But we should not, once again, stop at the statistics sheet. Draft for more than an hour, he scored a sublime goal and especially shone through the use of spaces caused by the red card. We saw him very tense, very upset to the point of attacking his teammates many times without anyone really knowing why. The most amazing fact of the game? The fact that he rejected Marquinhos when he came to calm him down since the Frenchman had just taken a yellow card for having spoken to the referee. The meeting was really special for him …
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