The "confirmada" will not remain in the history of football or that of PSG, absent to himself this Wednesday evening at the moment of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
He certainly succeeded in his mission, but leaving the trace of a team still tormented by its past, little inclined to rise to the height of the emotional meeting of the competition.
5-2 over the whole of the two games and we are choosy?
We will, of course, soon have forgotten the cotton legs and the plastic mind, but for the rest, the story remains worrying.
At least Paris will recover for this April calendar Neymar, without whom he reached the quarters for the first time.
Barça did not want to die like that, forcing the idea of a joyful funeral march with the guilty consent of PSG, on the edge of the void during that time.
The Catalans, full of pride and football, monopolized the ball during a first period of archi domination, where they missed everything in the last gesture, unless it was Keylor Navas who disgusted them.
With another goalkeeper, Paris would have returned to change his jersey at half-time with at least four goals against him, consecrating his status as a club apart, capable of sinking on its own when all is well.
Weakness everywhere, accuracy nowhere
It is as if he had never to win the first leg by a large margin to offer the reassuring face of a qualified conqueror, of a team master of its destiny without the tremors and doubts of a condemned man, to which he has long looked like this Wednesday.
The second in Liga had an image, that of the first leg, to erase and a history to respect: no opponent has kicked him out of this competition in the round of 16 since 2007.
PSG therefore came out alive from the first 45 minutes of tightrope walking where he showed himself upside down like never before.
Ridiculous game plan - recover to launch Mbappé in depth -, disarming lack of combativeness, collective fear for an anti-revolutionary slogan at will: weakness everywhere, accuracy nowhere.
It is a first unprecedented act in football: we saw a team opposed to a goalkeeper and it was the goalkeeper who won.
Keylor Navas, Ballon d'Or level, released unreal saves against the Barcelona armada back to a sublime possession game.
His performance saves Paris and writes the legend but especially his own.
There have often been ten turnips and a Navas on the Paris side against Barça.
In this miracle of the draw of the break, PSG found a way to score the first thanks to a penalty that arose from the VAR, a true copy of that of the first leg caused by Kurzawa, also touched by the grace of heaven.
He caused the other penalty, deflected by Spiderman Navas (he had woven a web in the goal), without collecting a second warning.
He ended up leaving but only on the decision of Mauricio Pochettino, who replaced him when he returned from the locker room with Abdou Diallo.
Paris has complained too much, and often rightly, about refereeing in the Champions League not to salute the benevolence of Anthony Taylor, rich in this area.