Lionel Messiin his last matches with psggave him the two-time championship of the league 1 with a goal in the tie against Racing de Strasbourg 1-1, away, for the 37th. and penultimate date.
The formula of the entire season Messi and Kylian Mbappé, reversed in this case, gave him the advantage 15 minutes into the second half when little was happening on the field.
The cold celebration of Messi, who did not look at the PSG ultras, synthesized what he has experienced in these two years with his second club as a professional: coldness and harassment in general.
And the tranquility in PSG was broken with the exquisite definition of Kevin Gameiro, with the clock marking 34m. of the complement, in front of the desperate exit of the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma, who was blurred with the self-pass and subsequent touch of the Frenchman.
The Parisian team added its 11th. star and became the top winner in the local competitionabove Olympique de Marseille and Saint Etienne, both with 10.
The world champion contributed 16 goals and 16 assists in the campaign, which featured him in 32 games.
Messi spends his last days with the PSG shirtin a different context in relation to what was his arrival full of praise, press and love from the Parisian fans.
The man from Rosario starred in his penultimate game, if nothing strange happens, because the link has a possibility of extension but everything indicates that the path of the Argentine will be elsewhere (Barcelona perhaps?).
It is that the wear and tear happened as quickly as the enthusiasm when he was seen arriving at the Paris airport in August 2021, with the white Ici c’est Paris T-shirt and that cinematic greeting from the balcony of the Royal Monceau hotel in the exorbitant street of ‘Champs Elysées’.
The eliminations from the Champions League tarnished everything else, the PSG fan did not care about the two league titles obtained, the assists and the goals from Rosario with this shirt and above all the lack of understanding of the bad guys from the squads to surround him and accompany him.
And beyond the fact that it was not revealed, Messi’s enormous performance in Qatar 2022, with two goals including against France in the final plus the penalty in the definition, weighed in on the relationship with the fans. A parallel can be drawn, not with his Neapolitan fans but with the Italian people, to what Diego Maradona suffered after the ’90 semi-final.
The breaking point happened a few weeks ago when Messi left without apparent permission for Saudi Arabia for personal business and the board suspended him for two weeks -finally it was one- and a fine.
The dream of succeeding outside of Barcelona did not fully come true, although in the middle and with Argentina he won everything that was denied him before. PSG wanted the Champions League but the trident of Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar did not give it to them and that is why the end is opaque, despite this consecration.
In relation to the game, Paris Saint Germain made the usual mistakes in the background, such as when 15 minutes into the first half they gave Habib Diallo a clear chance after a pass behind Chadaille Bitshiabu – the same mistake that earned him elimination with Bayern Munich-.
The first clear one for Messi was when 37 minutes had gone by, in a flat course, with a shot over the crossbar. Of course, the Rosario player did not like the assistance of his partner, who left it to the right.
The answer was once again in the feet of Diallo, the hottest player on the court, who hit him squarely with his instep, with sustained height in the run and effect.
With hardly any sparks, Messi generated a tailor-made free kick after his classic dribble, short and inside. Quite the opposite happened in the execution, perhaps showing that Messi is human and Matz Sels’s left corner was far from the erratic execution.
However, Messi forgives little when the ball falls at his feet and inside the area, and this is how the story defined when Mbappé located him and put him facing the rival goalkeeper. Subtle, in a kind of dive, crossed the shot and something else.
Everything seemed calm and on track until the experienced Kevin Gameiro said present by taking advantage of a short shot by Gianluigi Donnarumma and a subsequent high-end resolution, with the complicity of the Portuguese Danilo -the clearance was botched-. With this goal they secured the category.
Source: Ambito
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