PSG DOESN’T NEED MESSI? Crazy Results Comparison With And Without Leo
Leo Messi has already spent 3 months at PSG, but it’s still difficult to say whether his transfer has benefited the club from a sporting point of view. The huge hype that came to the metropolitan club with the Argentine is a fact, but today we’ll figure out what impact Leo has on the pitch. We say Vamos and let’s begin!
PSG results with and without Messi
Leo arrived at the club on the 10th of August and since then PSG have played 16 matches. Of those, 12 were league matches and 4 were the Champions League games. Let’s see how the club’s results differ depending on whether the Argentine is on the pitch.
So first, let’s take a look at the matches Leo played in. He played exactly half of them, 8, that is. PSG won five of those, drew twice and lost once.
But what’s really interesting is that of those five victories, only twice a positive result was achieved with Lionel on the pitch. At first we didn’t believe it either, but see for yourselves. In the match against Lille, Leo was substituted during the break with a score of 0:1 in favor of the opponents, and in the second half PSG scored 2 goals and snatched victory.
In the match against Lyon, Leo was substituted with a score of 1:1 and in the same way the Parisians scored the winning goal without the Argentine. And in the match against Reims, Messi came on as a substitute with a 2:0 score in favor of PSG already and the score stayed the same until the end of the match.
The only club victories to which Leo had a hand in were in the Champions League matches against Man City and Leipzig. In those games, he scored his only goals for PSG so far. A little later, we’ll tell you why the Argentine is doing well in the Champions League and not so much in Ligue 1.
But as for the matches that PSG played without Messi, the picture for the Parisians is much brighter here. 7 wins in 8 matches and only one draw. Are you surprised?
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Here’s why Messi can’t be discarded
If at that moment you thought, “Wow! PSG really don’t need Messi”, hold your horses! In addition to just the stats, there are other objective reasons. We’ll talk about those right now.
If you look at the schedule of Leo’s matches during these three months and what happened in his life, then you can easily understand his mediocre playing shape.
Let’s remember that Messi had no pre-season preparation due to the summer transfer saga. That is, for some time, he just needed to get in shape and feel the rhythm of the game. Leo missed 2 games for the club after signing due to these exact reasons, then made his debut as a substitute in the match against Reims, but immediately went to the national team.
The national team schedule is designed in such a way that players from South America almost never have time to return to their clubs for the first league match after a break. So it was with Leo. In addition to the fact that his adaptation was interrupted by games for Argentina, he also missed matches because of that.
Leo then made his debut for the club in the Champions League, but suffered an injury that incapacitated him for 2 games. And only after recovering from it, the Argentine finally scored his first goal in the match against Man City. Hit the Like button if you remember that masterpiece!
Then Messi played another full match and, it would seem, he caught the right wave and would destroy opponents, but then another international break came. This, of course, interrupted the rhythm once again and, moreover, Leo missed the first match after his return again.
The rest of the events should be fresh in the minds of fans. After playing a full match against Marseille, Messi got injured in the game against Lyon and was forced to miss the next two games. Now he went to the national team camp again. PSG manager Mauricio Pochettino, commenting on the call-up of injured Leo to the national team, confirmed that he was almost ready to play.
“Lionel will go to the national team. We hope that Messi will be able to play for the Argentina national team and then help PSG,” the coach said.
So if you look at the situation from this point of view, it’s clear that in such conditions Leo could hardly show his best performance. Messi will have to be judged by how he spends the rest of the season, starting in mid-November, when there will be no breaks for international matches and he will be able to heal all his sores.
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