After a win and a draw, it was time for Luis Enrique to taste his first defeat in a third preseason game as the coach of Paris Saint Germain. The Spaniard saw his players taking the lead twice, only to be denied by defensive errors and then defeated by the former Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund Shinji Kagawa: Cerezo Osaka – PSG 3-2. While Kylian Mbappe trains in Paris with the unwanted players, the rest of the team played in Japan at the temperature of 33C and that’s maybe the reason why they made two crucial mistakes, after which Osaka scored. The irony is, they were made by two experienced players and newcomers Milan Skirinar and Luis Hernandez.Kagawa just scored this against PSG. pic.twitter.com/hBCwC916b5— ari (@aritrabvb1909) July 28, 2023 Coach Luis Enrique fielded a 4-3-3 formation with Hugo Ekitike as the central striker, while Asensio and Ghabri on the right. Captain Marquinhos started the match as the right back, while Zaire-Emery, new boy Ugarte and Vitinha commanded the midfield. The Saints took the lead in the 17th minute, when Ekitike used the cross from Zaire-Emery and scored his second goal in this preseason. But just minutes later, after a defensive error by new signing Milan Skriniar, Jordy Croux equalized for the Japanese team and that was it in the first half.PSG reveal asking price for Mbappe, Real still silentPSG again took the lead at the start of the second half, when Vitinha played a pass with Hugo Ekitike, who backheeled it back to the Portuguese who found the net: 2-1. Luis Enrique made a couple of changes as Noha Lemina came in for Ekitike, while Lucas Hernandez and Fabian Ruiz replaced Danilo and Manuel Ugarte. Soon to be gone Marco Verratti came in for Warren Zaire-Emery and Cher Ndour replaced Vitinha. After Skriniar, now it was time for another newcomer to make a mistake. Hernandez lost the ball on the left side, allowing Watanbe to assists to Kitano, who leveled the game again in the 67th minute. And then the old boy Kagawa, who came back to his first club to finish a great career used his opportunity and scored a great goal from the edge of the penalty area for the win. Luis Enrique’s players will face Inter Milan on August 1 before flying to South Korea and a final warm-up match against Jeonbuk.##NAJAVA_MECA_7396321##
