Tonight's Ligue 1 match, the rambling Paris lost 3-0 to Monaco, and the expensive aircraft carrier sank so quickly. Like the Titanic, it hit an iceberg, not Monaco, but Real Madrid.
The manager who led Real Madrid in the final half hour of the second leg of the Champions League knockout round 10 days ago was Carlo Ancelotti, who left The Greater Paris nine years ago. Ancelotti's unhappy experience in Paris may be able to spy on some management problems.
The fainting high-rise of Greater Paris
"One day, with us already advancing to the Champions League knockout stages early, before a Champions League group stage, I was told that if they didn't win, they would be forced to start the process of changing managers. This hurt the trust between the two sides, and that's when I decided to leave the team at the end of the season. They said I left Paris to take over Real Madrid, but in fact I left for a number of reasons. The quote comes from an interview with Capello while coaching Bayern, and similar remarks are not uncommon in his autobiography.
In fact, the pressure on Ancelotti, the president of Paris at that time, nasser and Leonardo, the director, was indeed "high-frequency", and they did not give Ancelotti enough trust and respect. "Team Newspaper" reporter Jose Barroso has revealed that after the 2012-13 Ligue 1 round of the 27th round of the Ligue 1 season, Paris lost 0-1 to Reims, Nasser and Leonardo met with Ancelotti, Nasser told Ancelotti "we are not doing well, the team needs faster progress."
Ancelotti must have regretted coaching Paris, his reputation helped the team to sign Motta, Ibrahimovic and Silva, and helped the team build a model of the giants, but in the end he was pressured by "yin and yang" all day long. Fortunately, he won the Ligue 1 title that year, which made it very likely that An Fat would become the man in the history of football in May this year as a manager to gather the five major league titles.
Of course, Tuchel also had to thank him for his disagreement with the senior brass of Paris, otherwise he would not have been able to win last year's Champions League. You said that Tuchel brought a good one, why did you replace him?
In the recent Champions League knockout round, Ancelotti had no time to "retaliate" nasser at halftime, because according to the trend of the scene at the time, if Real Madrid could pull two goals in the second half to drag the game into overtime, it would be burning.
In this game, Messi's several eye defenses in the second half were amplified by the media and became the target of public criticism, but we have to admit that Neymar, wearing the number 10 shirt, is the leader of this team and he should take responsibility.
Neymar's straight-line decline, Greater Paris became increasingly unstable
The most intuitive impression Neymar gave to the author on the field this season is that the sticky ball is not as sharp as in the past. Looking at the data of the second leg against Real Madrid, we find that Mbappe lost the ball 7 times, Messi 11 times, and Neymar up to 17 times.
In tonight's game, which was squashed by Monaco, Neymar alone lost 20 balls. In fact, Neymar is the core of the team, the starting point of the team's frontcourt attack, and his possession frequency is very high, so the corresponding ball loss will be more, just like you see the NBA average turnover list is the top of the big stars.
So, it's not too shocking to see that Neymar has conceded 24.7 goals per game in Ligue 1 this season, after all, he has conceded even higher in previous seasons, and since Neymar joined Paris, he has never conceded less than 24.7 goals per game in Ligue 1.
Comparing Messi's data for the same period, Messi has only conceded more than 20 goals per game in only one season.
But the problem is, you take the ball more, you can't have as high a success rate as before, you can't send high-quality key passes like before, which will make the team's offensive quality decrease, and losing the ball will also make the backcourt bear more physical exertion and defensive pressure, and this sentence also applies to Westbrook.
We can look at some of Neymar's personal data for the last three seasons, and his decline is visible to the naked eye.
In the last three seasons, he has averaged 2.9 and 2.3 appearances in the league and champions league, compared to 4.7 and 3.7 times last season and 6 and 6.1 times two years ago. In addition, Neymar has averaged 6.78 and 7.32 points per game in the Champions League and Ligue 1 this season, the lowest since entering European football.
Mercenary brigade, the main force of the local army is only two people
Returning to this match against Monaco, Greater Paris was like a mess, with Monaco's 11 shots on goal in the first half, dwarfed by The Greater Paris' 5. Three midfielders, back-back Joan Ameni, two centre-forwards Fafana and Joan Lucas frantically pressed in the greater Paris half, so that the ball was vividly reflected in the absence of tacit understanding in Paris, as if the players of The Greater Paris had just played together today and just knew what the name of the other party was today. Monaco's three young French midfielders have successfully gilded their appreciation. By the way, two tall young centre-backs, Di Sasi and Bertiachal, are also doing well.
Monaco repeatedly grabbed the ball in Paris at half-time, and the wind was loud in front of the goal guarded by Donnarumma, if it were not for Gererson Martins handling the ball too frizzily, Greater Paris would have fallen behind by more than one goal in the half. On the side of Paris, Kimpembe complained to his teammates after a key break in the first half, and the disappointed expression of left-back Mendes was enough to make people notice that the team's hearts had been scattered.
At this time, Neymar should have stepped forward to boost the morale of the team and create opportunities on the offensive end, but his performance was really unsatisfactory, his once magical legs, as if they were filled with lead, and he seemed to be moving closer to Hazard, who was on a par with him in recent years.
In the end, manager Pochettino could not stand it, and he replaced Neymar in the 77th minute after falling behind by two goals.
This great Paris is more like a mercenary army. In the main squad of the team, only Mbappe and Kimpembe are French players, other players come from all over the world, and next season Kimpembe may become the main local seedling.
This is reminiscent of the American football of the last century, the American Football League in the 1920s was in full swing, football ushered in a vibrant spring in North America, a large number of foreign players came here to pan for gold, and in 1930 they won the third place in the World Cup with the cooperation of naturalized + local talented players. Nasl in the 1970s, the league used to attract Pele, Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Gad Mueller, Cruyff, Best and many other top British players to join, if you look at the list of teams every year, you may find the flag behind the name of each team player, rarely see a duplicate. The British media used circuses to taunt NASL, but mercenaries around the world performed entertainment, and the level of competition was very low.
Today's big Paris is like this, in the domestic league can be the king, but in the Champions League can only look at luck. The most expensive trident composed of Messi + Neymar + Mbappe is like the New York Universe when Pele + Beckenbauer + Kinalia (Serie A shooter king), although it does not completely coincide.
The world's top five goalkeepers have collected two, and four Champions League goalkeeper Navas can only sit on the bench most of the time to watch the best player in the European Championship, Donnarumma. The captains of Real Madrid and Barcelona, the captains of Argentina and Brazil, are also gathered. Big roster players from 11 countries. How is it possible for the dressing room not to be divided into several small groups?
After tonight's game, Mr. Ji said: "There is no worse team than Paris, if there is a Kobe victory ship." ”
The Kobe Victory Ship, which is home to the big names at the Asian level, is home to five major league veterans such as Akiya Daisuke, Yoshiki Muto, Hotaru Yamaguchi, Tomoaki Makino and Takatoku Sakai, plus inysta, Bojan and Samper, whose Barcelona foreign aid group has a record of 4 draws and 3 losses in the first seven rounds of the league this season.
Take a look at the record of the last 6 matches of Paris: 2 wins and 4 losses, including the domestic league loss to Nantes, the loss to Nice and the loss to Monaco. The 1-3 defeat to Real Madrid, in fact, has been rehearsed in Ligue 1 before, 1-3 lost to Nantes, just a month apart, not a bad day.
After so many years, Real Madrid's main midfielder is still the ceremonial three midfielder, and the greater Paris still has no fixed main three midfield combination, can you tell what the midfield combination of the greater Paris has been in the past five seasons? Now the front court MNM, midfielder Verratti + Danilo Pereira + Paredes, the back two in the national team are not absolutely the main force, so how to see it is not worth it. (Supine Braces/Qiu Yixi)