With a breath, a hair, a twig.
PSG return to France without first place in Group H and may not be able to avoid Real Madrid or Manchester City in the knockout stages of the Champions League in 2023. The fault lies mainly with them.
He imposed himself without really convincing in Piedmont when Benfica did not stop piling up the goals against Maccabi (6-1) in the second half until inheriting the role of leader for having scored more goals at the exterior than the Parisians.
Go past Paris after eliminating Juve from the competition, Lisbon has committed one of the most beautiful perfect crimes of this group stage.
Christophe Galtier's men must regret his accounts as a grocer, stingy with his offensive talent, apart from that of Kylian Mbappé.
So nothing has been easy in his career, neither his draws against the Portuguese nor his two victories against the Old Lady.
PSG indicates that it does not yet belong to the rank of favorites, that it remains this eleven capable of everything in the same meeting.
Paris won on the sole talent of Mbappé
Kylian Mbappé's sublime goal did not bode well, at least not the promise that his beauty implied.
Afterwards, Paris did not continue, played little, offered little, made little progress, with a Carlos Soler who perfectly respected this programmatic non-match.
Fabian Ruiz was even injured, forcing the infernal Renato Sanches to replace him since Danilo Pereira still lacks rhythm.
The Portuguese midfielder nonchalantly did everything as if it were a match between Lille and Lorient from last season, refusing to level up in the Champions League.
Paris is a team of air pockets since the beginning of the season if in addition, it deploys with two dead weights, it can hardly work.
Paris will have almost no highlights over the whole game, with Wojciech Szczesny at a standstill rather than stoppages.
Massimiano Allegri's 3-5-2 will have considerably hampered the Parisians, unable to get out of the density, to follow Manuel Locattelli's vision of the game and very little active in counter pressing when the ball is lost.
It's a shame to come to this on an evening of first place to look for with a distance match with Benfica with the trip a priori less difficult in Haifa, with a Mbappé visibly in one of the breaths he prefers, this air of peaks.
After the hour of play, Christophe Galtier will not change the system but two men, the energyless Soler, and the overtaken Juan Bernat, faulty on the equalizer.
The effect was immediate, with Nuno Mendes scoring on his first ball, launched in depth by Mbappé.
The equation is simple: Paris won on the only talent of the 2018 world champion, with a goal and an assist, the kind of record that reminds us that he lives a class above or elsewhere, in a planet populated by few of the like, the Mohamed Salah, the Karim Benzema or another Robert Lewandowski.
In City, Mbappé would score about as many goals as Erling Haaland but in Paris, the Norwegian would not achieve a third of what the Frenchman achieves, for comparison enthusiasts who do not tell what these two footballers are intrinsically.