In suffering, but in a good way.
PSG has returned to the place in the Champions League, remaining master of its destiny, currently second in its group.
It will obviously be necessary to confirm this accounting improvement next week in Manchester for the top of the group and then not to unscrew at the end of this first phase against the Turks of Basaksehir in the Park.
In its den, the capital club freed itself from the obstacle Leipzig on Tuesday evening, thanks to a very generous penalty scored by Neymar.
In the 2020 European Cup, home refereeing still exists, with the bonus that with.
Paris badly needed a gift in this disjointed and wobbly end-to-end game where anything and everything dominated and served as a viaticum for Thomas Tuchel's team, tactically as in other areas.
The commitment, the accuracy and the idea of the game remained confined, with the only opposition being against.
At home, in a match that absolutely had to be won, the 2020 Champions League finalist therefore played against.
The result of a reluctance undoubtedly initiated by Thomas Tuchel and his surprising choices, from Mitchel Bakker on the left side to this midfield with three without creators, without will to play, without a lot of things except the will to build in front defense another defense.
Neymar still has not found his legs
Instead of putting four defenders in front of four defenders, the German coach, for fear that it starts to show too much, was content to put three.
As Keylor Navas remains goalkeeper, they defended at eight.
This is not what we came to see but it is what Tuchel offered us, in an almost total reduction of panache, daring and conquest.
This is because Leipzig was absolutely catastrophic in the last gesture that PSG was able to hold after his penalty without suffering a penalty.
The Parisians will undoubtedly be more comfortable next week away and without the overwhelming pressure that weighed on them this Tuesday evening but it is also possible that, from Marcus Rashford to Anthony Martial, the Mancuniens have much more offensive talent than Julian Nagelsmann's men.
What will not change in a week, apart from the confidence, a good start, is the Parisian game.
There is not much, even the offensive flashes in a sequence where Neymar has still not found his legs, Angel Di Maria lacks clairvoyance and Kylian Mbappé locks himself in lonely choices, probably for lack of movements around him.
Some players, and the attack has nothing to do with it this time, almost invented a new scale of marks against Leipzig, going into the negative.
Everyone is fed up with 2020 but PSG probably a little more than the others.
He no longer offers anything, with two recruits (Danilo Pereira and Alessandro Florenzi) only at kickoff, and lacks everywhere.
There was still fear in this team, with his starving possession, his balls lost after two passes and his nervousness at every moment.
There is still time to wake up.
Match sheet
Half time:
1-0.
Game behind closed doors.
Referee:
M. Makkelie (PB).
Goal:
Neymar (11th, sp)
Warnings.
PSG: Neymar (40th), Paredes (40th), Herrera (82nd), Verratti (84th);
Leipzig: Forsberg (2nd).
PSG:
Navas - Florenzi, Marquinhos (cap.), Diallo, Bakker - Herrera (Verratti, 83rd), Danilo, Paredes - Neymar (Sarabia, 90th), Mbappé (Kean, 90th), Di Maria (Rafinha, 64th).
Entr.
: Tuchel.
Leipzig:
Gulacsi - Mukiele (Orban, 63rd), Konaté, Upamecano, Angelino - Sabitzer (cap.), Haidara - Nkunku, Forsberg (Sorloth, 74th), Olmo (Kluivert, 63rd) - Poulsen.
Entr.
: Nagelsmann.
