“The fear of danger is a thousand times more terrifying than danger.
This is a quote from the novel "Robinson Crusoe".
A story of a lonely castaway that begins to resemble the life of PSG at the moment.
A club that slowly takes water in L1 by dint of no longer scaring many people.
Still last year, the case was heard.
The matches against PSG in the league counted for zero points.
It was only necessary to avoid the big humiliation and to lose with the honors.
In reality, the Parisian opponents had therefore lost match before kick-off.
But that was the world before.
In reality, an unknown virus has been overwhelming the club since the start of the season.
We do not yet know its origin, but it is distinguished by an inability to produce efforts for 90 minutes.
And the patient no longer scares anyone.
"Mental and physical problems"
The figures are edifying for the Parisian patient: already seven defeats in one season, the worst score for PSG under the QSI era.
Paris may not have lost the title yet but have gained the certainty that they will have to snatch it this time in pain and tension.
Because, today, everyone knows that PSG can be taken in a match.
Whether we are 19th, as Lorient and then Nantes have demonstrated, no longer prevents us from dreaming.
“It's logical, admits Alain Perrin, the former coach of Lyon and Marseille.
This year, PSG has nothing to do with the steamroller at the start of the 2019-2020 season.
We sometimes see individual qualities expressed.
But there is no longer a game sector where we say to ourselves:
They are unplayable
.
Paris has mental and physical problems in a match.
So the opponent knows that at one point or another there are going to be possibilities.
And that changes everything.
"
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For Perrin, Paris distills a terrible idea in the league: "We feel that this team only lives for the Champions League and sees the championship as a daily business to be dispatched".
Rolland Courbis, the ex-coach of Bordeaux, thinks that it is when Paris is deprived of its best men that it is less afraid.
“I can't imagine for a second the PSG not to be champion.
But it is true that the replacements, this year, are not at the same level as the incumbents.
And there are guys who are in poor shape and others, like Verratti, who are not always 100% of their motivation.
Result, you are less scary.
"
"They are no longer hungry in L1"
Mickaël Madar, the former Parisian striker, is much more annoyed by the services of PSG.
“Before, when you played Paris, you were afraid for your goal difference.
Today you are aiming for victory.
It makes sense, this team is playing at a single pace and cannot defend together.
In fact, I want to slap them.
"
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To explain his annoyance, Madar is inexhaustible.
"It's simple, they are bourgeois who are no longer hungry in L1," he annoys.
They are full of money.
Look at Draxler: a bit of a match here and there and that's it.
He would rather receive his big salary than fight in another club.
I was a player and, at my level, I know what it means to have less desire because of the comfort.
With this state of mind, I don't see this team beating either Lille or Lyon.
We are afraid of the wicked but never of the bourgeois.
This PSG is no longer scary.
It is pitiful.
"