The birth of the Invincible Armada, 4-slaughter of the Premier League, defeating Inter Milan, Bayern, Real Madrid, what did Paris do right

After defeating Real Madrid 4-0 in the Club World Cup, Paris Saint-Germain has developed more and more the temperament of becoming a historical team. In the past three months, this team has defeated the top four Premier League teams in a row, and then slaughtered Inter Milan in the Champions League final, defeated Bayern in the quarterfinals. After changing coaches in the semi-finals, Real Madrid, which is in full swing, can be said to have defeated all top combat clubs except Barcelona. From being stupid and expensive in the past to being invincible warships now, what did Paris Saint-Germain do to transform the club?

Perhaps this transformation can be counted from 2 years ago. That year, Paris Saint-Germain bid farewell to superstars such as Messi and Neymar at the summer transfer window. Choosing Enrique as the head coach sent a clear signal to the outside world that they bid farewell to the ‘superstar’ team building model and instead started the model of building a team with a head coach.

Although Paris has also found well-known coaches such as Ancelotti as coaches in the past, it is the first time that such support for Enrique is. I remember that year, Paris President Nasser took the initiative to stand for Enrique and expressed that all the team's operations would be based on the coach's opinion as the final opinion. Just as the media thought this was just an official remark, Enrique's three changes to the team's core Mbappe in one year proved that this was not official words.

From the beginning of that year, Mbappe was forced to leave the left winger position he was used to and instead try the midfielder's play. The reason is self-evident. Under Enrique's tactical system, the winger must return to defense to maintain the tactical balance of the scene. If you want to reduce the return to defense, there are only two positions: center and front midfielder.

After Mbappe proved that his rough skills were not competent for the front and midfielder, Enrique decisively promoted the youth training new star Emery to the position, allowing Mbappe to try a single center. Although the final attempt to change three positions in one year ended with Mbappe's poor tactical diversity, he was able to change the core players' habits at will, which shows how powerful Enrique's coach is.

By 2024, after the start of the new season, he lost Mbappe as a constraint. Enrique's coach has great power to no boundaries. As a rising star focused on Paris Saint-Germain last season, Emery, who lost to Yamal in the Golden Boy Awards, was originally believed by the media to take over the scepter after Mbappe left and became the core of Paris. After all, Miaohong is the natural prince.

Unexpectedly, Enrique decided to start the game of the frontless formation in the new season, abandoned the center Muani for 100 million yuan, demoted Prince Emery, and straightened the new stars Due and Barkora, and let them work with Mbappe and Kvaratskhelia who joined the season to replicate the classic cross-controlled frontless formation system of Barcelona in the past.

would rather use Ruiz, who has been tempered in Serie A for many years, than provide a more quality and assisted defense, than Emery and Li Gangren, who are more valuable and popular. In the end, after Enrique's tactical system was fully implemented, this Paris Saint-Germain, which had 80% similarity in Barcelona in the past, was finally released.

Of course, objectively speaking, this Paris Saint-Germain is still difficult to compare with that of the "Invincible Barcelona". They are able to defeat many strong teams because many giants are trapped by the epidemic and slowed down the pace of replacement. They are in the pain period of lineup changes (Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern). Although teams like Inter Milan are full of mental power, they have major flaws due to the financial lineup.

But at least at this moment, this Paris Saint-Germain is indeed worthy of the title of the world's No. 1 team this year.