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Gianluigi Donnarumma, the PSG goalkeeper, had a very delicate evening on Tuesday in Munich.
Gianluigi Donnarumma is no longer one of Luis Enrique’s first choices. We had confirmation of this on Tuesday evening with his non-starting during the Champions League clash against Bayern.
As was already the case last weekend against Toulouse, the Italian was preferred to the Russian Matvey Safonov. This is a real downgrade and he has not experienced anything like it since his first season in Paris when he was in competition with the Costa Rican Keylor Navas.
“It was a sanction against Donnarumma”
“It’s a sanction,” judged the former Parisian David Ginola during an intervention on Canal+ before the meeting. “If I am Donnarumma and I tell myself that there is this match to play against Bayern, with Manuel Neuer opposite and I see Matvey Safonova starting in my place, I will take a slap. It’s a real slap in the face.” Why did Luis Enrique favor the Russian? “Just to get people talking about him,” estimated columnist Bertrand Latour, present on the same set.
Luis Enrique’s decision can be discussed after the fact. Safonov made an error which cost the French champions the match. We wonder if with Donnarumma in the cage the outcome would have been different or not.
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