Zlatan is PSG’s best player,blessed with gifts that are beyond mere mortals. But he does also seem to behind the thrust of his team at timesThere is a game you can play with football that involves listing the kind of phrases you’ll never, ever hear anyone say in public. For example in the peak years of his Manchester United dotage the phrase “Paul Scholes, and he’s a bit overrated isn’t he?” was effectively unprintable,its publication likely to spark mob anger, civil unrest, or punishable ultimately by being stabbed in the eye with a skewer by the Queen.
It can be an animated exercise to think the otherwise unsayable. Watching Chelsea’s stirring rearguard at the Parc des Princes against a dominant Paris Saint-Germain team who will contemplate their narrow first-leg lead with a small anxiety,another candidate for the list occurred.
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Source: theguardian.com