It had to be the apotheosis of a triumphant season, it was a collective sinking. Opposed to Chelsea in the final of the Club World Cup, Paris Saint-Germain sank with a crash (3-0), exceeded in all the compartments of the game by inspired and ruthless blues. From the first minutes, the Parisians underwent the physical impact and the frantic pace imposed by the English. Cole Palmer, untenable, struck twice (22nd, 29th) before Joao Pedro did a little more the nail just before half-time (44th). Cold picked, tactically muffled, Luis Enrique's men appeared to be confused, frustrated and without solution to the opposing intensity.
The second act did not make it possible to reverse the trend, despite a timid reaction to the image of a removing Dembélé or an even decisive donnarumma. Chelsea managed her advance with master's advance while Paris lost in lucidity, energy … and in cold blood. Symbol of palpable tension on the field, Joao Neves saw red at the end of the match (85th), sanctioning a PSG at the end of the nerves. And in the shadow of a trophy which was moving away, frustration overflowed: mood gestures, verbal clashes, attitudes betraying a group upset to have seen its global dream collapse without fully fighting. The defeat, beyond the score, left traces.
Several boiling episodes!
Frustrated by the scenario of the match and jostled in intensity, several Parisian players ended up falling, giving rise to a series of scuffles as unexpected as revealing a deep discomfort. The most striking incident intervened at the end of the game, when Joao Neves, already feverish, violently raised Marc Cucurella who remained on the ground, before pulling his hair under the eyes of the referee a few minutes later on another action. Provocation or simulation of Spanish, Neves' attitude has earned him a direct red card (85th) and set fire to the powders in an electric match. Earlier, in the first period, Achraf Hakimi also heated himself with Enzo Fernandez after a rough duel in the midfield, exchanging a few supported words and a jostling quickly interrupted by the referee. But it is at the final whistle that the tension reached its climax. While the Chelsea players exulted, Luis Enrique, furious at the provocative attitude of Joao Pedro, was seen in the process of giving him a dry slap before being quickly dismissed by members of his staff and Presnel Kimpembe. A surreal scene, captured by the cameras, which highlighted the nervousness of the Spanish technician.
At the same time, Gianluigi Donnarumma, out of him, seemed ready to do battle before being calmed in extremis by the London coach Enzo Maresca, who came to play the firefighters. A tense end of the game, symptomatic of a PSG overwhelmed by the event, where frustration was expressed as much by gestures as by the black looks exchanged on the lawn. Luis Enrique immediately deplored his loss of composure against João Pedro. Shortly after the fight with the Chelsea players, the PSG coach explained to his assistants what had happened with the Brazilian striker of the English club, filmed by the cameras of DAZN Reading the Spanish coach's lips: “I'm stupid. He is there, he pushes me, I touch him and he throws himself ”. Later at a press conference, he said: “What happened at the end of the match was a situation that everyone could have avoided. I tried to separate the players; There was tension. We should all have to prevent the situation from degenerating. I have no problem expressing myself. After the match, there was a lot of tension. Everyone jostled the players because of the tension. I saw Maresca jostle players, and others shake it up. These are situations that we should all avoid. So I separated the players». To see if Luis Enrique will be heavily sanctioned or not.
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