Three weeks before the resumption of Ligue 1, Paris-Saint-Germain beat Le Havre 2-0, in its new training center in Poissy this Friday afternoon, for its first preparation match. This meeting also marked the first of coach Luis Enrique on the PSG bench. France Info was there.
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The preparation of the PSG is accelerating. Three weeks before their first match of their championship against Lorient, the weekend of August 12-13, the club started the preparation matches on Friday July 21. The Parisians received the promoted from Le Havre at the end of the afternoon in his new training center in Poissy, in the Yvelines.
A 2-0 victory clinched thanks to second-half goals from Hugo Ekitike and Kylian Mbappé, who returned to training on Monday and played 25 minutes. The PSG workforce has rotated a lot and in total about twenty players were able to participate in the meeting, in particular rookies including: Marco Asensio, Lee Kang-In, Milan Skriniar or even the French world champion Lucas Hernandez.
Luis Enrique very present on his bench
The match was played behind closed doors. The opportunity to see the new coach Luis Enrique in action, for whom it was the first on the PSG bench. Black shorts and white jersey, in the colors of the club, the Spanish technician found himself from the first seconds standing at the edge of the sideline. The coach did not hold in place and went back and forth between his bench and the edge of the field. Luis Enrique never stopped encouraging his players by giving voice in Spanish, making gestures and giving instructions. Very present, he also exchanged a lot with his assistants.
“He is a coach who communicates a lot, confided to franceinfo Hugo Ekitike, who talks to the players, who is behind us and who pushes us all the time to go and press“.”He is present“, continues the goalscorer of the day, for whom “he’s a fairly attacking coach so I think we’ll be attractive to watch and it’s good to work with a great coach like that. He is a coach who has won a lot of things and has been a very good player so we will learn a lot with him and he will do good for the team.“.
About the meeting, Hugo Ekitike explains that “it was a match to find our legs, it’s done and that’s good. We tried to apply the instructions of the coach“. The young striker and the rest of the group will fly to Japan on Saturday July 22 to continue their preparation before the resumption of the championship in August.
Note the absence for this match of the Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, victim last night of a burglary at his home.