A few days after Neymar, who also had to face this problem of conscience during the game against Haifa, Marco Verratti is in a particular situation at a disciplinary level: he should be cautioned this Saturday against Troyes to miss a game that falls well ? or he tries to stay many games under threat.
PSG chained the games and, logically, the cards fell on the Parisian players, certainly among the fastest to be booked in Ligue 1. In the middle of the week, it was in the Champions League that Neymar announced his next disqualification, or in at Juventus next week, and the Brazilian, threatened, thus avoids being threatened for the last phase. However, he will miss a prestigious match, which was decisive for the first place in the group.
This Saturday, Marco Verratti finds himself in a similar case. Given that he was booked in Ajaccio last week, the Italian risks disqualification at the next warning, a truce that will last seven games. Given the rhythm of the cards in the small room, it is practically impossible for him to escape this new game of disqualification that hangs in his face. Then comes the dilemma: should we have this disqualification as soon as possible to start over from scratch for a series of matches where his team will need him most?
Taking a yellow card against Troyes this Saturday would deprive Marco Verratti of the last match before the break for the national teams linked to the World Cup, that is the very accessible PSG / Auxerre. On the other hand, any card received in Lorient next Sunday or against Auxerre would prevent him from playing the first match after the World Cup that he will not play, namely the reception in Strasbourg on 28 December. For this meeting, however, the club risks being deprived of many players who have just finished the competition. With that in mind, isn’t it better not to serve the ban before the competition rather than afterwards, when Paris will have fewer players available?
Verratti is not the only one in this case as Gianluigi Donnarumma, Sergio Ramos, Achraf Hakimi (for the last time today) or Kylian Mbappé are also on loan. Two or even three of them will participate in the World Cup, while Donnarumma is the one whose replacement is least likely to suffer the physical backlash of international competition.
