“Luis Enrique is perfect at PSG”

Luis Enrique Martínez, PSG coach, expressed his faith in reversing the course of the Champions League quarter-final tie with Barcelona after his team’s 3-2 defeat. On Tuesday, at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, the final stage will be delivered, but since last Wednesday it has been remembered in France that a succession of top-level coaches -Laurent Blanc, Unai Emery, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino- have passed . through the dominant club of French football was unable to lead the team to victory in the great European competition. The second leg will dictate the verdict although, in the meantime, the work of the former Barça coach and former Spanish coach has received clear support from a veteran French coach in recent times. “Luis Rnrique’s season has been perfect so far and it does not mean a failure to fall to Barcelona.”

The phrase draws attention because the justification of this PSG, since the arrival of the Qatari capital in 2011, seems to be intrinsically linked to the conquest of a competition that has always been against it. In a conversation for RMC, Pascal Dupraz, former coach among others of Toulouse, Caen, Saint Etienne and Dijon, reviewed the merits that in his opinion Luis Enrique has achieved at PSG, making it more collective a team rather than the individual.

“I don’t see why Paris Saint-Germain should be undervalued just because it won the French championship again, a championship that, for my taste, is much maligned. With its current coach, PSG laid the foundations of a new project, putting an end to luxury and prioritizing the collective over the individual. world, Kylian Mbappé, and encourages the arrival of young players like Zaire-Emery,” he commented. . “Luis Enrique is launching a project that, whatever they say, is based more on the collective than on individuality, so I consider that PSG is playing its part. So far, I would say it has been a perfect season,” he concluded.