He did go the whole game. Lille were the better team for most of the game, so surely disappointing to lose this one. Weah switched to RB around the 60th minute. He was totally gassed by the ~85th and clearly was dealing with a cramping or tight hamstring. He was forced to tough it out, and the tying goal came because of it (he was exhausted and ball-watching momentarily and his man got free for a relatively easy pass to Mbappe).
Aside from running out of gas (and being largely responsible for the tying goal), Weah played well and was very dangerous throughout, but especially in the first half and out on the left. Of course, Mbappe was playing on Lille's right, so that likely contributed some to Weah being less dangerous after switching sides. As always, Weah shows he is a really good professional. Solid, smart play, good crossing, clean with the ball, thinking ahead. His one-on-one defending is also good. He's a well-rounded player that has high-level skills across the board.
I tend to suspect a muscle injury, because he suffered it stretching his body to block a ball. That's a dangerous play, especially for someone with his history. Hopefully he didn't aggravate it by continuing to play.
There's definitely an injury there. How significant I have no idea. I don't know how many subs Lille had left to make, if any, but Weah definitely should have come off late in the game if it were possible to swap him.
By my count, Lille had three subs left, but just one window, when Weah strained himself at 85’. The manager then waited until 88’ - after Mbappe had tied the game - to make 2 subs - could have made 3 - but neither sub entered for Weah.
Weah may hurt himself when he tried to tackle Messi in that crazy sequence when Messi dribbled inside the box. Maybe that is why he cannot track back with the tie goal. But if you watch Bumba’s golazo, you understand why Weah didn’t play on right wing forward.
Bamba is a very dynamic player. Even aside from the goal, he was certainly a standout today among a good team performance.
Lille fans not exactly impressed with Weah as a fullback. Shame, they had been on his side until recently, What he said after the game: https://www.losc.fr/actualites/2023-02-19/apres-psg-losc-les-reactions-lilloises "It's disappointing because we played well throughout the game. But fatigue caught up with us at the end of the match, with several cramps among the players, and Paris took advantage of it. That's how we paid dearly for our fatigue. Defeat is hard."
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Expressed interest in playing for his father's old club: Tim Weah has admitted he would one day love to play for AC Milan — the club where his father George Weah starred in the 1990s. https://prosoccerwire.usatoday.com/2023/03/02/tim-weah-transfer-ac-milan-appeals-to-usmnt-star/
^ Not sure if I ever told you guys, but I would also be interested. I certainly would have been interested when I was still playing club soccer. I would become instantly recognizable, though admittedly in sort of a WTF? way. A guy can dream, can't he? Returning to reality, I think Tim's Weah's next landing spot is one of our more important product placements. He could take another step up, or at least a half-step up, starting on a team that needs him as (more of) an attacking threat.
If in his current situation, a step of half step down, he's not seen as enough of an attacking threat, is he going to find that a half step or full step up? In an ideal world, maybe, but I'm hoping rather that he simply starts lighting up the field, whereever he is used, a la Davies.
Wait, whose side are you on? (For reasons that cannot be discussed here) we need Weah lighting up the field further up the field.
I don't want to wade too deeply into this. But in the last game, Timmy played really far forward in a position that, on average, was about as much a wing as a wingback. Just maybe hold back on the idea that he's not seen as an attacking player until he's had a string of games where he clearly isn't part of the attack.
In any case, the modern RB or LB isn't a fully Full Back anymore. He's expected to get forward and provide - not just add to - the width in the attack. In some cases - e.g. Guardiola's Man City, they move forward into CM positions. And a young player with the soccer IQ and the tactical discipline to play multiple positions really well is going to get a lot more suitors than the average and have a much longer career to boot: see Cameron, Geoff.