Paris Saint-Germain (H) - CL SF | Post-Match Thread

If Pep managed to remake, coerce, persuade, threaten, or whatever...Riyad Mahrez to play and improve like he's been doing this season, it is scary, but very intriguing thought, how it would look with Neymar. But the whole team has been playing like one huge, monster organism, eating everything in front of it.
My office colleague is a Leicester City, the only LC supporter I ever met down here in London, and he's been just telling me how shocking it is to compare Riyad when how he was playing then, to how he's been playing now. I am so fucking happy. CTID!
I’ll hold my hand up and say I was most definitely of the FFS Mahrez persuasion. I never thought he would fit in.
But most definitely this year, he has become a go to man. He is playing our team game and seems to be relishing it and embracing it.
It not just the goal threat he brings, he is linking up and assisting, where in the past he would always look to go on his own.

His defensive work tonight was really good and shows he is embracing the Pep message.

As for Zinchenko. Think Zabaleta.
Stayed when many of us would have gladly let him move on.
He fills so many functions for Pep and I genuinely believe he bleeds blue for this team.

Pep has created a true team where the sum of the parts is greater than any individual stars. And they are all buying into it.
 
Not sure if they mentioned it on BT bit Mbappe wasn’t playing.
Did anyone hear them talk about it?

That narrative was so overplayed- because he had such an impact in the first leg... I guess we will never know what contribution he’d have made tonight but interesting that it is the UK media holding this up as an excuse but Poch has dismissed it.
 

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