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heated debate Thursday morning in drafting the sports department: should talk exploit to describe the performance of the Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the quarterfinals League champions after a draw (2-2) against Chelsea, or is it too much importance to the Parisian benefit? Arguments for and against
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A game that fills all the criteria of the AOC “Exploit”
On Wednesday evening at 22: 30 pm, I received a text message from a friend Bordeaux supporter, fiercely antiparisien and very few focused on patriotic unanimity that grabs Some football fans night of European Cup. It was a somewhat shameful confession:
“Fuck, I’m in Paris. “
That’s what stuff was done battle of Stamford Bridge. A match before which you find yourself – unless it is a cold fish of the species of author colleague lines below – to support a team that we hate because it undoubtedly plays before our eyes, achievement of French football clubs.
The label is deserved achievement. If you start to distribute it indiscriminately, it will become a hackneyed name and we will just as likely to come across a cheap wine as a great vintage. Therefore, it follows a specific charter lets say, for example, that the victory of PSG against Barcelona in the group match (3-2) was not an achievement but the qualification torn in London two Brazilian head is. It must meet the three criteria below.
- A: script The PSG has over one hundred and twenty minutes of play , was described as the last six and was eliminated during one hundred and four minutes (the ten missing the sending on penalties). He especially played with ten for an hour and a half following the expulsion of its star, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Being reduced to ten is not a disadvantage? Ask the Ukrainian-Brazilian Chakthar of Donetsk, shorthanded since the third minute and gone Munich with seven goals conceded in their suitcases.
- supposed inferiority. Chelsea net leading Premier League champions and PSG executioner in the quarterfinals of the Champions League last year, leaving with a head start on the Parisians. In terms of experience and workforce density, the English club is bigger than the French, for now forced to “dream bigger,” ie to look up to see the largest in Europe. This criterion is extremely frustrating for fans of European heavyweights. Difficult, for example, for Guardiola of Barcelona boasts a feat in a game since he was superior in everything that is done in Europe.
- A: game at stake. This is obviously the case here. Whether it is a knockout round of the Champions League: the collective imagination, this match will print more easily than the final of the Cup Winners’ Cup won at the expense of Rapid Vienna (1-0, 1996). PSG played with more gusto in the first leg against Chelsea last year (3-1), but it was only a first run. No way to talk of achievement. Nor for the superb win against Barca this season hens for one against Bayern Munich in 2000 or for yet memorable 3-0 Parc des Princes against Liverpool in 1997.
In the case of Chelsea-PSG, the size of the game is enhanced by the rejection inspired by the Blues, including their coach José Mourinho and some players sinister looking faker and behavior in the field, such as Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas. This is not what makes the qualification a feat, it just makes it even sweeter.
Clement Guillou
A great performance, that’s a lot
If we go by the first definition of Larousse, “brilliant action demonstrating great courage “, then qualification Parisians against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, deserves the title of achievement. Reduced to ten men in the first half hour of play, Laurent Blanc’s players showed a remarkable courage and self-sacrifice to take ten against the English. These findings can not be challenged, unless an unconditional supporter of Chelsea or Marseille, and to be with a good dose of bad faith.
Yet. The step back face emotion, legitimate, has brought viewers the eighth-final, invites to consider the concept of “feat”. The expulsion of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, for many, would lead to growing performance appearance. This is true and false at the same time. True, because it was not necessary to collapse after this blow. But wrong because it also uninhibited players PSG. At ten against eleven, they no longer had much to lose, and no one would have blamed their disposal outnumbered the leading of the Premier League. Much of the pressure off them then soaring, and José Mourinho pointed out at the end of the meeting, among other arguments relating more to bad faith.
Most importantly, the Portuguese coach, long bane of French clubs PSG, he eliminated the previous season, proved to be the main architect of the Paris qualification. How, when one has such talented offensive players Eden Hazard, Oscar, Willian, or Diego Costa – then Drogba off the bench – can we practice a game too cautious? If the Parisians had the merit of not lower leg after the expulsion of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, it is primarily because their opponents never put their unsustainable pressure.
Chelsea players seemed to refuse to fully enjoy the advantage that gave them their numerical dominance. The defensive prism Chelsea, constant teams driven by Mourinho and that earned him sometimes not always deserved success is this time become the best ally of teammates Blaise Matuidi. “It deserves to be punished” , has recognized the coach of the Blues.
Finally, the performance of Parisians deserves to be contextualized. By getting a draw to win taste in London, Parisians have “only” to qualify for the quarterfinals. A nice route certainly more remarkable as the Paris of the Qataris had hitherto known only frustrating eliminations – without being ashamed, far from it – in the European Cup
But. the trophy for the Champions League, the club assumed objective by 2018, still far away. At what stage of the competition can we talk to exploit? The debate remains open. Those who use this term hollow point that Paris has not yet become a “great European”: we use the same word if Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, even down to ten, managed to eliminate Chelsea in the round? The answer is obvious. Not
Set Paris qualification against Chelsea as a feat involved the generalization of superlatives. It glorifies it “a hero” – reference to “a” of The Team on Thursday – sometimes forgetting that there are still five games to go before a hypothetical continental title, and that Parisians do not always fall on such a conservative team Chelsea.
Talking feat returns to squander the term already used against Barcelona in the group stage. Sport often invited to these excesses of language. But what words we will be left if Laurent Blanc reach final after eliminating Bayern and Barça?
Yann Bouchez
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