PSG v Nantes, press ratings: Kvaratskhelia and Doué dazzled Paris | OneFootball

Wednesday at the Parc des Princes, Paris Saint-Germain won 3-0 against Nantes (highlights) in the postponed match from Matchday 26 of Ligue 1 2025-2026. Here are the ratings given by Le Parisien and L’Équipe to the capital club’s players (find ours here). 

Le Parisien:

Kvaratskhelia (8) – Dembélé (6) – Doué (7)

Dro (5) – Beraldo (6) – Neves (6)

Zaïre-Emery  (5) – Zabarnyi (5.5) – Marquinhos (6.5) – Hakimi (6.5)

Safonov (6)

L’Équipe:

Luis Enrique  – 7

Kvaratkshelia (8) – Dembélé (6) – Doué (7)

Dro (5) – Beraldo (6) – Neves (6)

Zaïre-Emery  (5) – Zabarnyi (5) – Marquinhos (6) – Hakimi (6)

Safonov (6)

Let’s not fool ourselves: with the ratings from the two newspapers, you could almost believe PSG really only had two players who stood out. It is sometimes hard to understand this reluctance from the media in their assessment of the Parisian club. Obviously, Nantes did not provide top-level opposition, but some players are not being given credit despite doing good things. If PSG managed a good match, without any frills, it is also because the players performed with quality. Beraldo won back a lot of balls, and Dro still has room for improvement, but he was not “just average.”

It always comes back to the same thing: PSG’s performances are judged based on the quality of the opponent, but never on their own qualities. Otherwise, we are still stuck with a somewhat old-fashioned reading of football, where the player who scores two goals and the one who also gets on the scoresheet are the ones highlighted, forgetting that this is a team sport and that without a combative, high-performing team, individual performances would not be possible.

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