What is edifying with this PSG is that the match has not started that we already know part of the scenario.
You can change the players, the opponent and the competition, you already know that Paris will botch its start before its talent gets involved.
This was already the case in Leipzig on Wednesday, as is often the case this season, and it was not lacking once again this Saturday evening against Bordeaux.
At Matmut Atlantique, the bad joke lasted about twenty minutes, during which PSG was taken by the commitment and aggressiveness of the Girondins.
Fortunately for Marquinhos and his partners, Adli does not yet have the talent and efficiency of Nkunku, even though the two boys attended the same PSG training center.
Result, the Bordelais let their hour pass.
Not Paris.
No continuity in the game
In Gironde, talent had a name: Neymar.
In two class actions that confirm his return to the forefront, the Brazilian has allowed his team to get out of a badly started game.
Next time, it will be Mbappé, or even Messi when he returns to competition.
It remains that it is its stars of the attack by their dazzling which carry Paris today, in the absence of a clearly identifiable game project.
Pochettino may well repeat that he knows where he wants to go, it is still difficult to follow him.
So, yes, the Parisian coach is not helped by the circumstances.
The epidemic recovery is coming to the fore in France, and it has already hit the private PSG of Abdou Diallo, victim of Covid-19 for the second time this year.
The absence of the Senegalese international, and that of Messi, Verratti or Kimpembe partly explain the lack of continuity in the Parisian game.
This is certainly what Charles Biétry and Michel Denisot must have thought, two former club presidents, sitting side by side in the stands of Matmut Atlantique.
Neymar became a footballer again
His second period has sometimes given the feeling that Paris is content with little this season, and is too conciliatory with its opponents. Even with the young Dina-Ebimbe, preferred to Gueye and Danilo, we have the feeling that PSG had the means to further mistreat the 16th in Ligue 1 and one of the worst defenses in the championship. It was Mbappé, under the eyes of his impassive father Wilfrid, who took care of it at the hour of play after a service from the altruistic Wijnaldum. After his double in Germany, the Dutchman confirms that he too is gradually going up the slope.
With Neymar once again a footballer, and his position as a consolidated leader, there are at least three good news gleaned by PSG on the banks of the Garonne.
But once again, the capital club suffered a number of unnecessary strikes, and Navas still excellent, was able to make the match with Donnarumma on the bench in Bordeaux.
Good to a point.
Even a great goalie cannot collect all the balls from his mates.
The advantage with this PSG is that you hardly get bored when the suspense stretches like this Saturday until the end of the night.
But, let's face it, apart from making the Girondins supporters happy, Paris could have saved the game at the end of it.
The match sheet
Bordeaux-PSG: 2-3
Half-time: 2-0
Referee:
R. Buquet.
Spectators: 42,000.
Goals.
Bordeaux: Elis (78th), Niang (90th + 2);
PSG: Neymar (26th, 43rd), Mbappé (63rd).
Warnings.
Bordeaux: Pembélé (28th), Niang (88th).
PSG: Mbappé (74th).
Bordeaux.
Costil - Kwateng, Koscielny (cap.), Gregersen - Pembele (Mensah, 46th), Onana (Fransergio, 86th), Adli, Otavio (Oudin, 68th), Mangas (Niang, 68th) - Dilrosun (Briand, 81st), Elis .
Coach: Petkovic.
PSG.
Navas - Hakimi, Marquinhos (cap.), Kehrer, Bernat (Mendes 64th) - Herrera, Ebimbe (Pereira, 75th) - Wijnaldum - Draxler (Gueye, 75th), Mbappé (Icardi, 87th), Neymar.
Coach: Pochettino.