Champions League – Group C
Skeptical about the collective qualities of the PSG before the meeting, the English media have eyes only for Neymar and Verratti after the victory in Paris. Newspaper.
Neymar here, Neymar there … You are challenged to find a sports media across the Channel that does not score on the Brazilian prodigy this Thursday morning, the day after the victory against Liverpool Liverpool (2-1 ). It must be said that the attacker auriverde delivered a sublime score. Like Marco Verratti, imperial midfielder, which earned him the praise of the English press. "
Verratti showed Liverpool what he missed in the middlenotes the ESPN website.
The former midfielder of Pescara gave a masterclbad to highlight the deficiencies of the Klopp team. Where Verratti was able to dictate the tempo for PSG, Liverpool had three identical players (Milner, Henderson, Wijnaldum)
to do pretty much the same job. (…)
Verratti was totally dominant."
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"With Verratti, the pungent side of his character will always be present, and the PSG must hope that his good side outweighs the bad so that he has the desired impact."
The Telegraph adds: "
Thomas Tuchel did not have Marco Verratti at Anfield. The magnitude of this absence was obvious. Liverpool has not had players like him for years. How to situate it? The multi-faceted medium that can pbad defenses, backgrounds and attacks with fast and piercing accuracy? It's easier said than done."Left alone in the middle of possession, Marco Verratti took risks to play forward and keep the ball under pressure. Even if it forced him to a few mistakes, including a nasty Joe Gomez. But here too, the press across the Channel does not hold it against him. "
His imprudence resurfaced with this fault on Joe Gomez (…)
Nevertheless, with Verratti, the pungent side of his character will always be present, and the PSG must hope that his good side outweighs the bad so that it has the desired impact. That's what happened against Liverpool"Writes ESPN.
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46 successful pbades out of 51 (90% success) for Marco Verratti, essential by his placement in the intervals to cross the 1st curtain of Liverpool and break the lines then.
1st supplier of balloons of Neymar (13 pbades). pic.twitter.com/QTAvgydsPZ
– Julien Momont (@JulienMomont) November 28, 2018
Neymar and Tuchel praised
While Neymar is more polarized than his team mate, the English papers have also made him laurels. According to the Telegraph, Liverpool's defeat was "
orchestrated by a masterclbad of Neymar.And add, "
As he played during the first period with his accelerations and devastating dribbles was just too hard to containThe Guardian adds: "
Inspired by the infuriating but sometimes unplayable Neymar, PSG delivered an impressive performance to match its ambitions in the European elite."
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"As he played during the first period with his accelerations and devastating dribbling was just too hard to contain."
On his blog, Guardian journalist Barney Ronay goes further: "Neymar had approved Tuchel's plans (at the arrival of the coach at PSG, Ed) given the manager's alluring words about building a team around his "artist". With the desire to "Create a structure", there was the feeling that Neymar, the great avant-garde individualist of the time, would always be attached to the collective. Six months later, at the Parc des Princes party, Tuchel did something that Tite failed to do at the World Cup. He persuaded Neymar to give us less of Neymar to give more to the team, to stay on his wing and let the rest of the game breathe around him"Perhaps the proof that Thomas Tuchel is the man of the situation to grow this PSG there.
