Coach Luis Enrique’s last press conference had just finished. Reporter Guilherme Pereira approached and said, “This Paris Saint-Germain will change the way to play football.” It is a serious and respectable impression.
Modestly, this column allows itself to differ.
The idea is so good that it requires the debate.
Three days ago, at the FIFA Study Group press conference of which the director is French Arsen Wenger, former Arsenal coach, Spanish coach Roberto Martínez gave his opinion:
“Is it a revolution? NO! Is it new? No! But Paris Saint-Germain Perfection performs all the concepts of current football perfectly.”
We are talking about pressure. Also game between lines. Also polyvalence, of constant position exchanges, of widening the field with the side Hakimi very close to the right line on the right, and Georgiano Kvaratskhelia well glued to the left.
“It is non -negotiable for us,” says Brazilian defender Marquinhos. He talks about the need for strikers to jump to press rival defenders as soon as they lose the ball. It is not exactly the Netherlands of 1974. It’s much more than at that time, because fitness allows players to run three times more.
But the Dutch did something that had never been done so hard: stealing the ball in the attack. The Parisians repeat what was done by Rinus Michels, Johan Cruyff, Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique.
The biggest surprise of seeing the (likely) world champion live at the stadium is the amount of position exchanges and how this allows passes in a dead zone, which the coaches dubbed the lines.
All enter this space on the back of the steering wheels, away from the defenders. Now it is Fabián Ruiz, with Dembelé and Doué. Other times Nuno Mendes, with Ruiz on his coverage. In others, João Neves or Kvaratskhelia.
“Sometimes they have a chance to confuse with four players capable of occupying the number 9 position,” said Spaniard Roberto Martínez. It may be Dembelé, Doué, Fabián Ruiz, to right-back Hakimi enters this account.
Luis Enrique was categorical in stating, after Mbappé’s departure to Real Madrid, that PSG stopped having a project based on his ace and began to focus on everyone. “We are eleven stars or more. Maybe twelve, thirteen, fourteen …”
Mbappé’s first season at Real Madrid was the worst campaign of Europe’s largest champion in five Championship editions. Meanwhile, Paris Saint-Germain won their first trophy of the largest European tournament.
Luis Enrique rejects the idea that he will win the title of best coach of the year: “I don’t believe in individual awards. Much less in the case of technicians.” Refuses total football compliment: “The biggest compliment is when our co -workers say they like to see PSG play.”
There is no Messi, no Cristiano Ronaldo and this has been in a hurry to analysts to elect the best player on the planet while the throne is vague. In February, there was talk about Raphinha, in May of Lamine Yamal, at this time about Dembelé or Vitinha.
The Star of the Club World Cup is collective football. PSG is better without the star Mbappé than it was when he was in the lineup.
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