“When he talks to you, you’re a fool compared to him”, Riolo turns on Luis Enrique

Afterfoot columnist Daniel Riolo on RMC Sport condemned the selection of Luis Enrique after the draw between PSG and Brest (2-2) on Sunday. He criticizes his lack of communication and his experiments in his laboratory.

A draw between PSG and Brest (2-2) did not resolve Daniel Riolo’s questions about Luis Enrique’s tactical choices. It is also quite the opposite. “He didn’t explain what he did in his laboratory,” he quipped on After on RMC on Sunday. “In the face of Luis Enrique, we are all ignorant, I might be a little more …”

“In terms of individual involvement, it’s the worst match of the season”

The reporter lists everything that surprised him. “Hernandez played left-back all season, right? And Beraldo came to play in the middle. But tonight in a 4-2-3-1 formation that is quite original by Luis’ standards Enrique, it puts Hernandez in the center and Beraldo on the left? Ok, great, why not?”

He chases. “The one who plays 10 is Asensio,” he notes. “We thought it might be the wrong 9 or on the side but you have to be unpredictable for other people, I’m sometimes even surprised that the players weren’t surprised. Afterwards, Kolo Muani, the poor man, should make him and Vitinha the Marseilles. Circle of depressives of L1. But why not play when Dembele lights up on the right side while others miss almost everything? With Hakimi at the CAN, he says to himself that I’m not going to put Dembele and then Zaire-Emery in midfield, it was very good so he told him: ‘You’re going to play a bit back’. I tried Soler straight away, it wasn’t that bad, oddly enough, but no: ‘You’re going to be on the bench, Zaire-Emery is going to play there and we’re going to do it differently’.”

“We no longer see what makes Mbappé strong, the excess, the acceleration, the strikes”

Daniel Riolo then reacts to the Spanish technician’s post-match reaction, satisfied with the players’ commitment in the first half. “In terms of personal involvement, it’s the worst match of the season,” Daniel Riolo said. “Even when he was doing his lab, I saw that there was at least one real collective and individual involvement of the players. Except for me, everyone is convinced that, by Mbappe’s position in the 9, we might have found out that he was at 9 tonight. Nice and that Barkola – who had a very good match tonight – is superior to him. I’d still prefer that it was Mbappé on the left and we play with a real 9 but he’s ‘no one there’ 80 million, to buy any of that Not enough for – so we’ll play with Mbappé in the 9. If someone tells me that he’s in this position that he’s amazing because he makes four pass legs in the middle and he misses the back pass, OK. I heard Park lose the ball. First up on the dribbles of Mbappé and Barcola in the midfield. If it’s great, if Géo-trouvetou is preparing the same, it’s great. I’ll never get used to Mbappé’s position.”

“He always says the same things, he doesn’t say anything because it bothers him to talk to us,” he contradicts the Spaniard’s communication with the press. “He scratches his head, he works so hard during the week in his laboratory, Geo-Trovetou, that he has nothing left to say on Sunday. He’s a genius, he doesn’t talk. When he talks to you, Then I’m a fool compared to you.”

Daniel Riolo also attacks the players’ performances. “In the second half, there was a lot of complacency and a lot of searching for individual solutions because collectively it was weak,” he adds. “The first goal came from a two-man exploit from Barcola with Asensio’s finish in the first half as well. It’s acceleration and recovery ball. I’m not going to see control of the match, even in the first half.”

Eventually he returns to Mbappé’s position in the axis, the meaning of which he does not understand. “The next match, Barcola will be suspended, I wonder who will play on the top left because he no longer wants to hear about Mbappé in this position,” he concluded. “He made him his playmaker, his handyman who gets lost in all directions, dribbling in the opening. He wants to do absolutely everything. We no longer see what makes Mbappé strong, the excess, the acceleration, the strikes. It’s strange, I can I don’t understand.”

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