Drought in Ligue 1
After the signing of Messi by PSG, there are many who are impatiently waiting for the exact moment when the members of the Parisian trident adapt to the qualities of their teammates and show their full potential, especially in Ligue 1, in which, In four games, Messi played 280 minutes and still couldn’t score a goal. They were 24 minutes against Reims, 76 minutes against Lyon (when Pochettino replaced him with the 1-1 game and sparked a controversy), and two full games against Rennes and Marseille.
At 34, the Rosario star begins to feel the rigor of a championship much more physical than that of the Spanish league. Unlike what happened in Barcelona, in France the rivals are not afraid of him and do everything possible to make him uncomfortable, to prevent him from shooting on goal.
In addition, the wear during the recess, in which he was champion with the National Team in the Copa América in Brazil, some minor physical problem and the lack of an adequate preseason with his new teammates undermined the possibility of a greater associated game, by that Messi was always used to. His two trips to South America for the Qualifiers for Qatar 2022 also made him lose matches and, consequently, be able to pick up his pace. Even in a couple of weeks it will be interrupted again by a new double date, against Uruguay and Brazil, the last scheduled in the 2021 calendar.
Messi was late for the team, missing the first three Ligue 1 games while reconditioning himself. Then he missed two more to the Playoffs and one more to injury. Both in PSG and in the National Team, today we see a Messi more organizer than explosive, who doses his energies in a role as point guard, giving the scorer facet to other protagonists. In this new role, Pochettino will have to work with time of practices and matches to oil that partnership with Mbappé and Neymar, for the benefit of PSG, because, for now, the set-up was not reached.
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