TOPS
There was only one team on the field after 20 minutes of play. A collective sequence with a Spanish accent, with Fabian Ruiz, Carlos Soler and concluded by Marco Asensio, would have taken Luis Enrique to 7th heaven if the ball was n had not failed on the post (14th). The good Parisian organization, its pressing and its domination in the middle, symbolized by Warren Zaire-Emery, has often paralyzed Inter. Defensively too, the Nerazzurri have only rarely taken over the last curtain, already it was necessary to cross the penultimate. What good lessons to learn.
He had already found the net against Cerezo Osaka on Friday (2-3), after a nice collective movement. Vitinha did it again, but in a different style. Positioned high from the kick-off, the Portuguese relieved Paris on the hour mark: a powerful and precise strike from the right to clear the skylight of Filip Stankovic, Serbian goalkeeper with zero official match with Inter. Pleasure for the eyes.
FLOPS
Two goals in two minutes: Sebastiano Esposito (81st) and Stefano Sensi (83rd) put a bamboo blow on the head of the Parisians. Concentration jumps? Tired in the (slight) heat in Tokyo? The Parisian pressing withered and Inter did not forgive, on a quick attack then a pure and hard counter-attack. Enough to wake up bad demons…
67% possession of the ball, 12 shots, 3 on target, and overall the impression that PSG did not know how to put the heads of the Inter players under water. Impossible to issue a final judgment on this Paris version Luis Enrique, because it clearly lacks the decision-makers, the killers that can be Neymar (preserved) and Kylian Mbappé (dismissed). It is also this type of player that the club is looking for on the final stretch of the transfer window (Dembélé? Kane?). Hugo Ekitike, scorer on Friday, remained on the bench.
