PSG has been caught up by its ills of the season, between its unworthy fund of fire, the tactical wanderings of its coach, its weariness some evenings, its injuries in each match.
Shake it well, it's the cocktail of defeat, the fourth of the league season in just 14 days, a worrying pace.
In a week, Paris goes to Lille and the idea will progress: can the title of champion escape the club of the capital?
The hypothesis becomes thicker, at least statistically.
The last time a PSG found itself 3rd in the 14th day, it was during the 2016-2017 season, concluded by the coronation of Monaco, the last team to date to have deprived Paris of the national title.
There are signs that sometimes do not deceive.
This Paris lacks everything, when Thomas Tuchel persists in incomprehensible choices, those that work a shot or two but not over time.
Danilo Pereira still doesn't have his center-back manual and Angel Di Maria doesn't have the physique to work in the middle, nor the vista at the moment to organize the game.
The weaknesses of the team have burst the screen
At home, in a caricature of what it has sadly become sometimes, PSG left the ball to enterprising Lyonnais, welded around a coherent project, positioned very high and only handicapped by a finish of clumsy Minims.
If it was a match at the level of the Champions League then it was rather the last group meeting between a 3rd and a 4th who know they are already eliminated.
Presnel Kimpembe's partners, struggling yesterday in this three-way defense (a 3-5-2 then a 3-4-3 after the break), did not really celebrate their first group place in the Champions League, including the draw takes place this Monday at noon.
The opponent will be all the more feared in view of the content of PSG - Lyon, where all the weaknesses of this team have burst the screen.
The nervousness of a Neymar, warned twenty minutes from the end, also tells of a team that cracks or gets lost in unnecessary fights.
And now we will perhaps have to do without the Brazilian star.
A fault by Thiago Mendes at the twilight of the match, gripping his left ankle, left the Parisian playmaker, in tears, on the flank (90th + 6).
And probably for some time.
At a time when this championship is getting ready to no longer have broadcasters, it promises to be uncertain and exciting as seldom in recent years, with a cohort of ambitious, from Lille to Marseille via Lyon who have all understood that this PSG, post-final Champions League, is no longer on his plate.
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