PSG-Mania UEFA Champions League Final Thread: Internazionale v PSG

[Batman]

Sami Smadi (@samismadi) on Threads

Watch how Ousmane Dembélé was pressing Inter and goalkeeper Sommer — look at the fear in Sommer’s eyes… PSG 💙

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How did Enrique make Dembele press like this? Inter could not play at all because they had 3 mad men pressing up front led by Dembele.

I remember at Emirates they suffocated us and we could barely touch the ball and had to go long or clear it immediately because of this press suffocating us.

He dropped him for the league phase game against us because he wasn't doing this. Dembele to his credit responded by having the best season of his career.

There's a video from last year or the year before of him trying to do this with Mbappe by pointing out that Michael Jordan was as aggressive defensively as with the ball and that the star needs to lead and be an example even if he's not scoring goals. Kylian clearly didn't buy in to that message like Ousmane has.

 

[outlawz]

Have there been complains about us pressing? That’s been one of the basics of football since forever.

No, the complaints are about our forwards defending.



The whiners need to get with the times.

 

[outlawz]

They dont want to pass the ball back and give Inter the chance to press and chase them. Setting the tone right from the first second is very important.

that's how we always suffer because when we are in the lead, the 2nd half we always come out passive and focus to not lose. Then we gets pinned back and the rest is history

This is a common tactic in rugby. You kick the ball out of bounds in the opponents half and then compete in a lineout lift to win back the ball.

I'm surprised it's taken so long for football to adopt it.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

This is a common tactic in rugby. You kick the ball out of bounds in the opponents half and then compete in a lineout lift to win back the ball.

I'm surprised it's taken so long for football to adopt it.

I don't get it either, it seems like such an obvious tactic. Kick it deep into the opponents corner and aggressively press and compete for the resulting throw-in, you can even go man to man because the opponent will have a man less taking the throw.

 

[boonthegoon]

I don't get it either, it seems like such an obvious tactic. Kick it deep into the opponents corner and aggressively press and compete for the resulting throw-in, you can even go man to man because the opponent will have a man less taking the throw.

This is what we do these days from kick off. Ball goes to raya who kicks deep into opposition half.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

The more you think about it, the more you realise Arsenal vs PSG was the real final. I do think about Declan Rice going mad at TP5 when he picked up that needless yellow at Madrid, but I'm not convinced that would cover the difference. They were clearly the better side over the two legs, but if their keeper hadn't pulled off just one of those worldie saves....

Where was Haramball when we really needed it?

 

[<<reed>>]

the real final FC

 

[outlawz]

People forget that Luis Enrique was the leading figure to replace Wenger in 2018 but the club decided against him as he was the wrong fit, while Emery was. If that doesn't tell you how (in) competent the Board is, I don't know what does.

@db10_therza You can bank on it now, the club is going to botch this window.

 

[albakos]

We had a chance to get this guy from Porto, but we chose Fabio Vieira instead

 

[Solskjaer's Spiral Curls]

We had a chance to get this guy from Porto, but we chose Fabio Vieira instead

If it makes you feel better we chose Ugarte over Joao Neves and funded PSG to sign him and make a profit.

 

[AberGooner]

We had a chance to get this guy from Porto, but we chose Fabio Vieira instead

A chance for Arteta to work his magic on Vieira and have him looking like our own version of Vitinha.

 

[carlito'sway]

The "Possession won" numbers are ridiculous....... 5 of top 6 are from PSG...

 

[Kuroske]

If it makes you feel better we chose Ugarte over Joao Neves and funded PSG to sign him and make a profit.

As if PSG needs to sell in order to buy. They buy which ever players they want, and only sell when the manager does not want to use him.

We had a chance to get this guy from Porto, but we chose Fabio Vieira instead

Don't think we had a chance once PSG is interested. Some goes for Joao Neves and Kvaratschelia.