The international break will therefore have been a breath of fresh air for everyone.
Three weeks after having booed all the PSG players, on March 13 against Bordeaux, the public at the Parc des Princes did not return the cover on Sunday evening.
Against the Girondins, the whole team, with the exception of Kylian Mbappé, took it for his rank, Neymar, Leo Messi and coach Mauricio Pochettino even being clearly more targeted than the others.
Sunday evening, the Brazilian star and the Argentine coach were certainly a bit heckled when the teams were announced.
But nothing comparable to the treatment they had suffered after the premature elimination against Real Madrid in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
The Brazilian leader will, against all odds, even be entitled to a round of applause and his name taken up in heart when, shortly before the quarter of play, he opened the scoring on an opening by Kylian Mbappé.
Wednesday evening, on the occasion of the qualification of the women for the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, Auteuil had recalled through a banner to be “Present but not amnesic.
It remained to be seen what attitude the CUP and the Ultras would have for the official reunion this Sunday evening.
Saturday, on the eve of the match, the CUP lifted the veil: “we will continue to express our dissatisfaction in the stands and this, without violence.
We will therefore be present, but silent because they do not deserve better,” explained the Ultras last night in a press release posted on social networks.
If most of them kept their word, the rest of the Park did not initially show themselves to be so measured.
As soon as the teams were announced on the giant screens, the portraits of Neymar and Messi were again greeted by a few whistles falling from the stands, yet at that time very sparse.
The discreet applause, close to indifference, was reserved for the goalkeepers, Denis Franchi, Alexandre Letellier and Gianluigi Donnarumma, who arrived at the warm-up before the rest of the troops.
By entering the lawn, a good ten minutes later, the field players did not have the opportunity to gauge the reception of the stands.
In order to mask the power of a possible anger, Queen's "We will rock you" accompanying the entry of the Parisians to the warm-up bawled so much in the loudspeakers that it was undoubtedly heard for miles away. Round.
At that time, only the banner "Turn 1991 Auteuil", deployed upside down on the railing, could make it clear that the public was still upside down.
At kick-off, everyone understood that the match would be played in front of the silence of the stands.
Until Neymar momentarily exits the stadium from his torpor on his flat foot.