Sending a killer assist in the make-up stage, Messi proved in this way that his help to the team is still huge. However, under the current "all-out feeding" Kylian Kylian Lampe's dominant idea of Paris Saint-Germain, messi wants to get a chance to shoot.
Fortunately, the Argentine king has a number of ace skills, even if he can't find a shooting opportunity, that penetrating pass is still the first in the world.
01. Messi is currently too difficult to shoot: lack of necessary team support
In recent matches, Messi has been placed in the starting position in the middle several times. However, the current Messi is not suitable for playing pseudo-nine, but more like a front waist with a large number of retractions to take the ball in the back position.
Mbappe hit a sharp arrow on the left, so that the attack of the whole Paris was to find an opportunity to feed him the ball and let Mbappe attack the box at high speed.
When Mbappe is in front of Messi, because Mbappe is the main foot of the right foot, his passing habit is more to the right (this is also because Mbappe rarely handles the ball with his back, and Suarez can turn his back to the 30-60° corner to score, which is conducive to Messi to take it with his left foot).
Unless it's in a large counter-attack space, Messi has to have one more process of entering the right foot and slamming the ball back into the inside. To make matters worse, in the process of Messi Neche, Paris Saint-Germain's no-ball people who hit the wall were not in place, and Messi often fell into a single fight. So this time Messi slammed the ball at his feet and was beautiful, but in the end the shot was blocked.
Looking at this attack again, messi took the ball in front of the box, because the middle did not pick up his teammates, wanted to dunk the ball consecutively, Messi was better at left foot handling, so the ball was carried to the right.
When Messi tried to slam another ball past the third defender back on the left foot, he ultimately failed. If the Paris receiver is always on the right side of Messi, Messi, who does not like the right-foot pass when passing people, will be mistaken for some sticky ball.
It is also because the support of the team is really not enough, Messi's current shooting is completely unable to enter the rhythm he should have. It is no accident that Messi once again shot 0 on target in this game. As can be seen from the heat map, Messi's horizontal engagement range is already very large, but he really can't really enter the core area without the tactical support of his teammates.
Fortunately, Messi's ability is very comprehensive, even if the shot can not enter his own rhythm, he can still decide the outcome of the game by sending a wonderful pass.
On the other hand, the 34-year-old Messi's touch of the ball during the confrontation is indeed a little slower than it was at that time. Paris teammates' passes are mostly less precise.
This time Simmons gave a "quasi-knife mountain ball", if Messi can get a large open space if he can pass the snatched center-back Omari, but messi failed to continue the magic of washing the "dirty ball" into a good ball, and was cut off by the other side.
02. Forced 55-game: In the end, it is Messi's clever pass that determines the winner or loser
Paris Saint-Germain has played too many games this season like 55, and the match with Rennes in this game has one less shot than Paris Saint-Germain than Rennes in terms of shooting. What's even more interesting is that both teams only have 1 shot on target. Fortunately, Messi sent four wonderful passes to his teammates in this game to bring shots, and finally received assists that determined the outcome.
As can be seen from the picture below, under the current offensive formation of Paris, Messi organizes position warfare in the front waist position, and Mbappe is not a role of cover attack, he is the real Main Point of Attack in Paris.
So after the whole formation was swung, Messi could not get the opportunity to follow up with the second shot and enter the rhythm of his own shot.
Mbappe's speed is a huge advantage, so once Paris play a high-quality pass in the core area, Mbappe will not hesitate to directly hit the box.
Mbappe, however, cut in from the left rib and has not been very efficient this season if he shoots with his left foot.
As you can see from the heat map, mbappe is more on the left after Neymar's injury, which makes him change the angle of his pass to Messi.
So in recent matches, Paris have relied more on Mbappe's shooting sensation, and if his shooting percentage is low, the team will also be in a bitter fight.
As you can see from the GIF, this time Mbappe is relatively on the right, so his pass to Messi can go into the latter's favorite angle.
Unfortunately, after Messi passed to Draxler this time, the German did not try to find a chance to cooperate again, but cut inside to shoot.
The death penalty in this injury time phase is a similar situation. After Messi got Icardi's pass, he entered his favorite left side of the ball, and then followed up without the ball.
However, Mbappe also did not return the pass to Messi, but cut inside to shoot himself, fortunately this time to send the ball to the bottom of the opponent's net, but also let Paris Saint-Germain win.
Conclusion:
Seeing that the team is about to usher in a key Champions League battle with Real Madrid, the team manager Pochettino has no idea of helping Messi on the tactical side.
Perhaps in his plan, he hoped that Messi would send Mbappe a beautiful straight plug and let the French sword seal the throat. Will things really go so smoothly? Let's see what happens next.