For a long time, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting was a nice casting mistake. These players that fans love to cheer on, a bit jokingly, a bit because the stars and their moods annoy them. At PSG, he was particularly noted for having – unintentionally – injured his teammate Marco Verratti during training, depriving the Italian international of the Champions League. Or for having prevented a goal from entering, in 2019, which could have offered the title in Ligue 1 to PSG with a week in advance.
But this summer, the gentle Cameroonian giant (1.91 meters) stood out for something else. Last year, coming into play in the 79th minute of the quarter-final against the Champions League against Atalanta Bergamo, Choupo-Moting was behind the equalizing goal of the Brazilian Marquinhos, before cutting angrily, in additional time, a cross from Kylian Mbappé, and deliver Paris, badly embarked against the Bergamasques. Quite a symbol. It is not the stars who have exploded the lock of the quarter-finals on which the Parisian club stumbled for nearly ten years, but the craftsman “Choupo”.
“Football has its stories, and today it was a story”, had epilogated EMCM after the qualification of PSG in the semifinals. Now in the opposing camp, and probably propelled holder due to the absences of Robert Lewandowski (injury) and Serge Gnabry (Covid-19), the Cameroonian striker would have nothing against writing a new one. At the same stage of the competition