Mauricio Pochettino's PSG was also born outside.
After a draw in Saint-Etienne (1-1) and a victory at the Parc des Princes against Brest (3-0), he gleaned his first success in the league in Angers, confirming a patient but rather successful launching into orbit.
At least in accounting terms.
Lille and Lyon who host this Sunday (Reims and Metz respectively) must win to stay in the area.
Next week, we will reverse the roles with a PSG at home and its two dangerous competitors (Monaco also arrives) on the trip.
The mano a mano of 2021 promises to be exciting, uncertain and it is when the championship has never seemed so tight and open, full of suspense, that it loses its diffuser and struggles to find a new one.
However, you have to watch that because the soap opera remains fascinating.
In Paris, a new methodology is being put in place and each outing provides information on the result or what we perceive.
For example, if we stick to the content and not just the result.
Paris won but struggled, stomped before nobody expected Layvin Kurzawa gave the victory with an incredibly silky volley from outside the left.
The surprise reaction of his partners told as much their admiration as their astonishment, like an unexpected gift.
Paris is trying to become a football team again
So it was not fun in the end.
But there is a good and a bad side in this failed performance of PSG.
The bad therefore refers to the mediocrity of the proposed game, translated by predominantly Angevin opportunities and once again a Champions League Keylor Navas with in particular a huge parade on a header from Loïs Diony (52nd).
The good thing, which you have to look for anyway, lies in the fact that the capital club has constantly sought construction and not individual achievement.
He did it badly but he tried to build, to find collective solutions rather than a raid by one of his brilliant soloists, a brilliant inspiration that would not have changed anything in the background, perhaps in the form with a faster Parisian opening score.
So, PSG may be deconstructing after Thomas Tuchel's minimalist tactics - give the ball to Neymar and see - to try and become a football team again.
This is what we thought we saw, unless it was a hope or an intimate obsession, that of believing in a change after four games from a new coach, in place since thirteen days.
In place when he is not affected by the Covid-19 since Pochettino must observe a quarantine far from his group in order to be treated and not to infect him.
In the meantime, he gave them the virus of success, with a week of three wins including a Champions Trophy in the middle.
What to give tone to the coach to recover faster.
MATCH SHEET
Half-time: 0-0
Referee: M. Delerue.
Spectators: In camera.
Goal.
Kurzawa (70th).
Warnings.
Angers: Moulin (90th);
PSG: Verratti (89th), Neymar (90th + 3).
Angers: Bernardoni - Manceau, I. Traoré (cap.), Thomas, Doumbia - Coulibaly, Amadou (El Melali, 86th) - Capelle (Thioub, 75th), Fulgini, Pereira Lage (Cabot, 75th) - Diony (Bahoken, 61st ).
Entr.
: Mill.
PSG: Navas - Florenzi, Marquinhos (cap.), Kurzawa (Kimpembe, 87th) - Verratti, Paredes - Di María (Herrera, 80th, Neymar, Mbappé (Sarabia, 80th) - Kean (Icardi, 69th). Entr.: D 'Agostino and Pérez.
