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Lucas Moura Seeks Clear Waters at Tottenham After Running Aground at PSG

It starts and ends with a run.

It is March 2014 and Paris Saint-Germain are drawing 0-0 at home to arch rivals Marseille when Lucas Moura collects the ball in the inside-right channel, about 40 yards from his own goal. Andre Ayew speeds across to attempt a tackle and as Lucas cuts inside him, an approving cheer goes up inside Parc des Princes, a kind of collective 'Wahey!'

Lucas begins to accelerate and when Ayew launches into another challenge, sliding in from the side, the Brazilian toes the ball beyond him. Another cheer, this one like the reaction at a bullring when a matador succeeds in confounding the bull twice in quick succession.