PSG's first away win in the league in over two months tells the story of a team doing well, thank you for it.
She continues to take off at the top of the standings and tears herself away from the disappointment of her pitiful elimination six days earlier in the Coupe de France against Nice.
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It made it possible to appreciate the good overall form of Leo Messi, author of his second goal in L1, the remarkable entry of Julian Draxler replacing an injured Angel Di Maria, to taste again the pleasure of Achraf Hakimi's races even he did not achieve his best performance.
In short, it gives the capital club a smile eight days before the reception, on February 15, in the round of 16 of the Real Madrid Champions League, its big deal for winter 2022.
Two open house operations in Lille
The reading of the match balances the enthusiasm.
Lille showed up without a goalkeeper or rather the one who was there - Ivo Grbic - scuttled himself with two fatal blunders, giving the first and the second Parisian goal at a time when PSG did not necessarily deserve so many gifts.
Moreover, between the two open house operations, he found a way to be joined under the yoke of the delicate work of Hatem Ben Arfa and a more pronounced general technical mastery, benefiting Sven Botman (1-1, 28th ).
Another question: when Danilo Pereira, author of a double in Lille, becomes PSG's top scorer in 2022 in L1, what should we deduce?
Perhaps nothing concerning him but that the others do not do enough in front, in particular.
Even if Kylian Mbappé, author of a new romantic goal, the fifth, should not feel concerned.
Serious and often diabolical
In short, does the great Parisian success in northern land announce a renewal?
Answer 1: It is too early, of course, to know in a world where we are always smarter after than before, to explain everything.
Answer 2: The very baroque scenario of this Lille-PSG, between a missing goalkeeper and a Paris elbow to elbow when the gap had not yet taken place, encourages a form of caution.
PSG were serious and often diabolical at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium, with striking collective streaks, sharp individualities, but they have changed too much this season for us to claim victory.
A 5-1 in Lille can obviously not hurt a week of the European Cup - the Dogues, they risk ruminating on this humiliation long before the reception of Chelsea.
It will inflate egos, lighten the atmosphere around Mauricio Pochettino and reassure Parisians that they are right.
Once upon a time
For all these reasons, this great success has appreciable virtues, which will still have to be displayed next Friday ahead of Rennes, back in the top 5. Some believe that all of the above has an impact on what happens next.
There would thus be the idea of a slow rise in power, a little underground and obscure because not always visible, before the arrival of Real Madrid, which would make PSG lovers more and more confident at the same time as the Carlo Ancelotti's men, deprived of Karim Benzema, suffer more.
You have to maintain that faith.