Paris Saint-Germain won against Atlético de Madrid for its entry into the Club World Cup this Sunday (4-0).
It is with the appetite of a European champion that the Paris Saint-Germain Launched in the very first edition of the World Cup club, this Sunday, in the legendary Pink Bowl of Pasadena enclosure, located in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles. In the heads, the temperature fell two weeks after the grandiose final against Inter Milan (5-0), but the reality of the thermometer was quite different, with stifling heat and an unusual schedule-farting noon-for Munich heroes determined to surf the sweet euphoria of their European coronation.
The first obstacle of Parisians, Atlético de Madrid, was well known. It is both the most classic and the most tough of this first round. Water has flowed under the bridges since the success of the Colchoneros obtained against the course of the game at the Parc des Princes, last fall (2-1), and Paris intended to show its new strike force. It is successful. Always well oiled and effective in the two truths of truths, the training of Luis Enrique put the ingredients necessary to properly launch his competition.
Parisians are still hungry
Unsurprisingly, the style opposition took place on a tactical level. True to its DNA, Paris Saint-Germain approached this balance of power with the intention of confiscating the ball to its opponent. The principles have not changed: high and intense pressing, pro-active approach and incessant permutations to blur the tracks. Opposite, Atletico presented itself with its usual Cholismoa low, compact and extremely aggressive block to crisscross the ground and reduce spaces, while proceeding to recover the ball.
But in this little game, it was the European champions that took over. The Parisians had to fill the absences of Ousmane Dembélé and Bradley Barcola at the start of the start, but the good-ramos-kvara trio made his complementarity speak on the front of the attack. Light came from Fabian Ruiz. The Spanish European champion remembered the good memories of Arsenal by placing a superb grazing strike in the sigh to conclude a nice collective movement (1-0, 19th).
We have seen everything that makes the salt of this team: movement, races, availability, fluidity and this feeling that this PSG has the answer to all the tactical issues proposed by the opponent. After his first goal on the attack placed, that of the station wagon intervened on rapid attack, at the same time when Atlético took out his nose with a shot from Antoine Griezmann. The valves were then open, and Vitinha rushed into a full axis space to trigger a perfect rolled shot (2-0, 45th+1).
An advantage managed very seriously by the European champions, which even found the luxury of salting the addition after rest. Everything was a little more slowing because the fatigue gained ground and the Colchoneros could even have reduced the scoring if the referee had not canceled the goal of Julian Alvarez for a fault of Koke on Doué, but these Parisians have follow -up in ideas and a group still carried by his emulation. Already a scorer in the Champions League final, the Titi Senny Mayulu, opportunistic and clinical, presented the cover to treat his statistics (3-0, 87th), before the entrant Lee Kang-in transformed a penalty to close the brand (4-0, 90th+7). Paris is launching its campaign well. The rest of the menu looks more exotic, with Brazilians from Botafogo on the night of Thursday to Friday (3:00 am) and the Americans of Seattle Sounders next Monday (9 p.m.).
