So that’s the brilliant happiness of a qualified player for his second semi-final of the consecutive Champions League, with Cherry on the Pudding The man of the match trophy at the key? Ousmane Dembélé still showed on Tuesday evening why he had an explosive personality in the world of professional football. Because his face at the exit of the lawn of Villa Park had nothing to envy to that of his predecessors at PSG during the thunderclap suffered at Camp Nou in 2017 or in Bernabeu in 2022.
The former Barça striker did not at all liked the comeback From feverish Parisian DNA +++ against Aston Villa (from 0-2 to 33rd to 3-2 at the 57th), and he did not pretend when joining the locker room. So much so that the UEFA delegate wishing to give him his trophy as a man of the match had to run after him, as A fun video quickly showed it Tuesday.
“Dembouz” as elusive as in the field
Faced with the lack of reaction of “Dembouz” when he presented him (in vain) this award, the man had to insist long seconds, before we arrive at the official photo of the player in post-match. And given the mythical face pulled by Ousmane Dembélé on this cliché, we say that even on the side of the eliminated, Youri Tielemans or John McGinn would have sketched a less closed face in such context.
But what exactly did our providential man feel about this second part of the season, really close to zapping the UEFA protocol on the spot? At the microphone of Canal +we quickly understood how badly the international international had experienced this qualifying obtained in pain.
How could Donnarumma have been snubbed?
“You have to be demanding, especially in these matches,” he said. We gave our task difficult. In the second period, we released ourselves, we thought we were too beautiful. At 1-2, we believed that we were already qualified and that it was finished. The Champions League is like that. You can come across teams with a hot audience that can reverse the match. We will have to be more demanding for the semi-finals. This match will serve us for the future. »»
Our file on Ousmane Dembélé
It is all the evil that we wish “Dembouz” and his Potos, who will quietly discover in front of their television this Wednesday the identity of their opponent, on the occasion of the quarter-final return between Real Madrid and Arsenal (3-0 for the Gunners to go). Still, the main mystery of this funny episode remains as follows: how could this trophy of man of the match not be given to Gianluigi Donnarumma, as huge as in Anfield in the previous round?
