A week after Halloween, it might be time to stop scaring yourself.
To play with fire, as with the nerves of those whose throbbing he mistreats, in stands or on the bench.
And if PSG took advantage of its match against Bordeaux this Saturday, November 6 in the 13th day of Ligue 1, to change springs, to rely on virtues more technical than pride and energy in order to establish this overwhelming domination that the naked eye can only verify, for the time being, by landing on the ranking?
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"Lider Maximo" on paper, this Paris built around extraordinary players indeed leaves the strange feeling of rolling only ordinarily in recent weeks.
The least profitable month in Ligue 1 of its start to the season
Since the beginning of October, the championship leader has played six matches in all competitions.
Five times, from Rennes to Angers, via Lille and Leipzig (there and back), he was led to the mark.
If he has, of course, often been able to turn the tide, he has also just signed his least profitable month in Ligue 1 of his start of the season, since he let slip his first three points in the league (2-0 defeat at Rennes, draw 0-0 in Marseille).
Nothing dramatic, of course, Paris being always in a more than comfortable position.
But, and this is the heart of the debate, despite its status as the best attack in Ligue 1 and nineteen points ahead of its host of the day, PSG offers only one certainty at the time to go to the Girondins who vegetate in the depths of the classification: precisely that of having none.
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As if to mark a little more the appointment of the seal of indecision, Mauricio Pochettino will maintain, with his defenses, the incredible series started by Thomas Tuchel, his predecessor, in January 2020. Deprived of executives like Kimpembe, Verratti and Messi, whose packages are in addition to those of Rafinha and Ramos, the Argentine coach will see Paris start with a different starting XI for the 98th consecutive time.
Not really ideal for stabilizing a formation with a still unstable equilibrium.
Unless…