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The true story of PSG's Machiavellian start to the match against Inter: Luis Enrique's brilliant psychological trap

2025-06-04 14:40:25Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The true story of PSG's Machiavellian start to the match against Inter:
PSG 'gifts' the ball to Inter at the start of the match

The start of the match by Paris Saint-Germain against Inter has become an accompanying part of a triumphant match for the French in the Champions League final.

The ball sent to the sideline, near the corner flag in the black-and-blue half of the field, was not a mistake, but a clever strategic ploy that had (and has) a precise tactical purpose: to immediately put high pressure on the opponent, disorienting them with a choice that was neither wrong nor unintentional.

It wasn't even the first time Luis Enrique had proposed such a solution, using that unusual approach on other occasions during the season, including the Cup semi-final win against Arsenal.

The truth – and this was also seen later, from the way the match took place – is that the Spanish coach had a different plan in mind than that of building the game solely on ball possession and field control.

He had set a trap and wanted more: to get into Inter's mind and destroy him psychologically.

How?

By exercising pace and a suffocating presence, such as to force the black and blues to do exactly what he had studied: to make them lose every point of reference, to hit them in the safety of a consolidated, experienced formation, capable of overturning the action thanks to the speed of the wingers (Dumfries, Dimarco) or the insertions of the fighting and organizing midfielders (Barella), to take the attackers (Lautaro and Thuram) out of the game while also neutralizing Calhanoglu and Mkhitaryan.

 


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