Live | The context of OM-Toulouse: Payet, 2023 toss or tails?
With the Dimitri Payet attraction, which has been raging almost non-stop on Boulevard Michelet since 2013 (apart from an 18-month freelance job in West Ham), we know in advance that we will never get on a ghost train, a Ferris wheel or a carousel, but that we will certainly ride a roller coaster, without ever knowing when the merry-go-round will take off until it licks the sky and when it will tumble in free fall until it crashes on the Marseille asphalt, or more of course towards the bench. But that does not prevent the supporter and the Olympian follower, who knows his little illustrated and illustrated Payet by heart, from guessing (or at least trying to guess), like a Greek oracle, when the former Nantes player will shine with a thousand lights. .
It’s almost mathematical: he has alternately been average (2013-14), exceptional (14-15), correct (all of 2017 on his return from England), stratospheric (first half of 2018), quite good (second half of 2018), transparent (early 2019), indispensable (late 2019-early 2020), inefficient (second half of 2020), excellent under Jorge Sampaoli (from March 2021 to May 2022), and finally without influence since the arrival of ‘Igor Tudor, this summer.
The logical consequence is that he finds a level worthy of his talent for 2023. Converging arguments: talent, and a mentality that has pushed her to not give up and not make waves (read our interview yesterday). Divergent arguments: 35 springs that weigh on his thighs, and an ability to repeat efforts that are incompatible with the incessant pressing required by Tudor. His disheveled end to the match in Monaco (2 assists) is a first sign. His tenure this evening, announced by the Croatian technician, is a second clue, and on a desire to toss a coin in the air, with the idea that it will rather fall tails.
A question for you, before getting the start of an answer this evening from 9 p.m.: are you ready to get back on the Dimitri Payet train?