If Ousmane Dembélé panics the counters at the start of the year, PSG could once again need his joker to make the difference against Liverpool.
Orphan of Kylian Mbappé and her goals in a mess in recent seasons, the attack on PSG had to be reinvented this season. Without a global star of the caliber of the French striker, Neymar, Messi or even Ibrahimovic, PSG must rest more on the collective. After weeks of floating and doubts, the Luis Enrique team seems to have found the right pace, like the sparkling form of Ousmane Dembélé or the spectacular emergence of Désiré Doué.
Faced with Liverpool, PSG expects a real test match, likely to pass it into the category of teams actually pretending to the title in the Champions League, he who is only an outsider today against the Madrid armada, the collective of Bayern or even … the stranglers of Liverpool Reds impressive in the group phase as in the Premier League.
To make Mohamed Salah and his teammates doubt, Luis Enrique, however, has a fine trigger, a formidable weapon in the Champions League which, paradoxically, is most often placed on the bench. This offensive player, however, displays extraordinary statistics this season in the Champions League, he who had already demonstrated last season this faculty to be a “super replacement” in Ligue 1.. His high quality performances, as well as his attitude outside the field, have not gone unnoticed with Luis Enrique who has wanted in recent days to greet the attacker. “Even when he does not play, he is important because he has an impeccable attitude. I am very happy to have a player like him,” said Spanish.
It is easy to understand why in view of the latest assessment of a famous sports statistics site. Opta did the calculation after the dams against Brest. Gonçalo Ramos is thus involved for a European purpose of PSG at an unusual frequency. Concretely, the Portuguese is decisive on average every 42 minutes, with no less than 3 goals and 1 assist in 169 minutes of playing time only this season in the European Cup … No one is doing better this season in the European Cup.
What is the tenure more often? Not sure the current eleven seems to give its full measure. By super replacing, Gonçalo Ramos also benefits from more spaces, thus having his physique and his sense of placement in tired defenses at the end of the match. The fatal weapon of PSG could therefore still have to wait many minutes in the shadow of the bench against Liverpool …