Paris Saint-Germain lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich (video summary Bayern/PSG) this Tuesday at the Allianz Arena as part of Matchday 5 of the Champions League 2024-2025 league phase. Daniel Riolo criticized Luis Enrique’s decision to replace Gianluigi Donnarumma with Matvey Safonov. For Riolo, Luis Enrique risks tiring fans with his way of operating.
Riolo “The saves he makes, Donnarumma also makes them every day”.
“The saves he makes, Donnarumma also makes them every day. The problem isn’t the blunder, it’s why embarrass himself in this game with the goalkeepers? I put you, I put you’. Now he’s lost Donnarumma. It’s over, Luis Enrique won’t be seeing Donnarumma anymore.
But why did you have to do that? It’s not like you brought in Sepp Maier or Lev Yachin. You brought in Safonov, the former Krasnodar goalkeeper! What about the goal? The guy was ridiculous.
Riolo “He’s going to end up wringing the club dry because he’ll have a fracture with the fans because of him”
This guy’s going to wear you down, he’s going to end up wringing the club dry because he’ll have a rift with the fans because of him. He’s one of those coaches who wears a club down and wrings it out. Mourinho is another such coach.“
Riolo’s comment is understandable. Safonov hasn’t done anything that Donnarumma doesn’t do in the Champions League. The saves are easy and the mistake looks like something the Italian also does very often. Finally, there’s a problem: both goalkeepers will suffer from a lack of confidence, one for having been left out, the other for having missed the opportunity to show that he could be the main man.
In any case, Luis Enrique’s choices against Bayern were not good ones. The absence of a false 9 or 9 showed that the team was afraid. Luis Enrique can lose his dressing room with this kind of choice, and above all he can lose it, because this season he hasn’t managed to raise the team to the level he wants.
