This Monday, PSG has not yet won anything of the season if it is not the honorary trophy of the champions in January against Marseille. But he could wake up next Monday with an unexpected national double, the title of champion of France and the Coupe de France. One of the two lines of this virtual list depends on him, the other includes the result from Lille to Angers and Monaco to Lens on Sunday, while the Parisian club will travel to Brest. PSG will know a lot more from Wednesday evening with the final of the Coupe de France against Monaco. The Rocher club is walking in the footsteps of its opponent at the Stade de France: it too can lose everything this week, the last cup at stake and its place on the Ligue 1 podium, threatened by Lyon.
The vertigo for Paris is not the same.
The Qatar-funded club knows its mission at the start of each season: to win everything on the national stage like the Champions League.
This is its raison d'être, PSG is built to win.
He has the budget and the staff to go with it.
From then on, any slippage, any trophy left by the wayside, creates tension or even a form of hysteria.
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All the more so as except in year 1, when the project launched by the Qatari shareholder during the 2011-2012 financial year was set up, the white season was never a concept in the Parisian setting.
In 2019, Paris let slip the Coupe de la Ligue, but he gleaned the title of champion.
In 2017, Monaco stole the Ligue 1 crown from him, but he won the Coupe de France and the League, of which he has lifted six of the last seven.
In 2021, he could lose everything, against Monaco this Wednesday and then Sunday in favor of Lille.
There is no longer a League Cup to hang on to the branches.
Capable of the best and the worst this season
Naked today, PSG can see themselves covered in gold at the end of the week, a notion that recalls how long a season is, this versatile game and that there is a form of miracle for PSG, pushed on penalties in Montpellier in the semifinals last week and still alive in L 1 despite his eight defeats. He has often gone through the mouse hole but he can still reconnect with his tiger hunter manners, a big gap that sums up his season. Paris will have been capable of both the best and the worst, often prodigious in the Champions League in the middle of the week and sometimes pathetic at the weekend as in Lorient (3-2) or against Nantes (1-2).
The week will decide on the Parisian springs and decide which side tilts the scales.
Nothing, it will be missed, even a national fiasco since it is necessary to separate the domestic field from the Champions League.
A Coupe de France will be good.
A Cup and the title of champion, the verdict will be magical, unthinkable again after the draw in Rennes (1-1) on the antepenultimate day.
But football always offers a real full of surprises: if Lille shares a draw in Angers and Paris does not manage to beat Brest, it will not be champion and will live with eternal regrets, with the shame also of the one who could be sacred but did not want it.
He will only have to blame himself.
It is also this feeling that he must chase away this week, taking back control of his destiny as much as possible.
