For the moment, the midfielder has resulted in Waterloo for Arsenal, which has the right to a catch-up session this Wednesday at the Parc des Princes in the semi-final return of the Champions League. Beyond the unfavorable result (0-1), the Gunners were overwhelmed in the heart of the game by the activity and the slaughter of the Vitinha-Fabian Ruiz-João Neves trio at the Emirates Stadium. But by recovering Thomas Partey, suspended last Tuesday, the current dolphin of Liverpool has great hopes.
The European PSG campaign will have been escorted by a permanent doubt about its midfield. There will have been questions at each meeting, whispered or transformed into questions at a press conference in Luis Enrique or the player present next to him in these moments. Perhaps the ransom of the first season of Luis Enrique with a trio mainly made up of Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz and Warren Zaïre-Emery who had not always dominated his subject and his opponents despite a first semi-final, lost to the round trip and back against Dortmund. The arrival of João Neves, only known to purists, has not changed anything last summer in the comments. More now.