PARIS SAINT GERMAIN 4: 0ATLETICO MADRID
FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP GROUP STAGE
Paris Saint Germain vs Atletico Madrid just ended with a scoreline of 4-0 in the favour of PSG in the first edition of the new format of the FIFA Club World Cup.
It was quite a dominant display from the Champions League winners over Atletico.
Fabian Ruiz, Senny Mayulu, Kang In Lee and Vitinha were the goalscorers of Paris Saint Germain.
Lets talk about the game and the tournament now a little bit.
So there has been a lot of negative talk coming into this tournament for several reasons, however the most important reason in my opinion is the health of players and the number of games they are playing, I know you already might have heard and read about this topic a lot of times previously, but still I wanted to make this point beacuse you can't have the players play these many games at the top level at that intensity, they are human beings after all, it is insane amount of pressure on the bodies of the players.
Now coming to the game,
First of all, it looked like a very hot day out there in Los Angeles, it must be very hard for the players to cope with the sun.
The game in itself in my opinion was bad in terms of quality, I mean PSG were just far-far better than Atletico Madrid, by the end of the match it looked as if Atletico players didn't even want to play, PSG players were just passing the ball around comfortably just waiting for the final whistle, not going to lie, even I wanted the match to end.
Before the match I expected PSG to win but did not expect such a bad game, it was just Psg everywhere.
The way they operate and move the ball around is just sensational, all their players are super comfortable and extremely flexible and versatile, all of them properly suit the playing style of Luis Enrique.
At one point you could see their Right Back Achraf Hakimi literally on the left wing supporting kvaratskhelia, the way they switch positions makes it just too hard for the opponent to mark PSG's players and defend against them. One more thing is that their players' are ridiculously hard working, like just look at how thier wing backs and wingers track back and then go forward they are jusrt constantly running and pressing.
If we talk about Atletico Madrid, they were honestly quite bad.
On some occasions they broke on the counter but most of the times they were either not lethal or they just could not find the final ball, they were just below par in terms of quality. Alexander Sorloth did miss a clear tap in, you just have to score from that distance , that is a terrible miss.
Paris Saint Germain enjoyed fantastic ball possession- 74% for them and 26% for Atletico Madrid.
They also had outperformed their Xg(Expected Goals), they scored 4 but created Xg of 2.21, Atletico on the other hand created an Xg of 0.89. PSG had 11 shots on target(out of 16) and had 4 big chances.
Atletico just had 1 shot on target(out of 5 total shots) and 1 big chance, they clearly lacked attacking firepower against a team that is very disciplined.
I will not end this without talking about the referring which was absolutely pathetic to be honest.
In a tournament which already has such negativity around it, you really so not want such poor officiating, also some of those clear cut decisions took too long.
Apart from all the negativity around this tournament, I really think the knockouts can be an interesting affair, especially if we see an underdog team.
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