OM-PSG: Paris in a disorganized band

Paris asphyxiated, Paris jostled and Paris swept away.

With less than a week to face Bayern Munich in the knockout stages of the Champions League, we were waiting to see what this Parisian team really had in mind.

And we saw.

Flaws, errors and above all a disorganized team.

All these errors had been noted since the beginning of the year, but they were increased tenfold during a historic clasico.

The first lost by PSG at the Vélodrome since 2011, inevitably it is a stain at this moment of a season where the Parisians have already stumbled three times in 2023. And for the second consecutive year, the adventure stops from the 8th of final of the Coupe de France, which draws a somewhat worrying conclusion.

In a meeting that had everything of a great European evening, in terms of intensity, rhythm and atmosphere, the PSG Galtier version fell in great widths against a Marseille team from which the partners of Marquinhos on certain aspects.

If Paris was looking to pass a life-size test before measuring itself against the Bavarians, it was served.

But the workload and the files on which Galtier and his staff will have to work have piled up badly.

We are still trying to understand what the technician wanted to put in place with this 4-4-2 diamond without depth in front, but taken in depth behind like the penalty conceded by Sergio Ramos for a fault of chick and transformed by Alexis Sanchez (31st).

For a man experienced in the games of the clasico (45 disputed with Real), his equalizing goal cannot improve the balance sheet.

Donnarumma prevents OM from folding the case in less than 45 minutes

The way the Parisian eleven was jostled is cause for concern in anticipation of next Tuesday.

Under the constant pressure of Igor Tudor's eleven soldiers, the Parisians gave the impression of not finding the answer, being unable to bring the ball out or resist this crazy and sometimes suicidal pressing.

If Fabian Ruiz, jostled and mistreated by the Marseillais, had found an oxygen mask near the Parisian bench, he would surely have made very good use of it.

Overall, not much worked in midfield and even the return of Marco Verratti was not enough to restore order in the Parisian house.

In front, Neymar tried to save the shot, he found the post, delivered a decisive pass.

But he was way too lonely, as it was an evening when his buddy Messi had obviously decided to run even less than usual.

Which is still worrying.

His runs without intensity, his lack of defensive filling in a match of this magnitude are a real poison for his own team.

In an evening where there is almost nothing to remember for PSG, it will be necessary to remember the performance of Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Now freed from any form of competition after the departure of Navas on loan, the Italian goalkeeper has put himself in Euro 2021 mode. His five saves made in the first period prevented OM from folding the deal in less than 45 minutes.

But it is rarely reassuring to bring out the goalkeeper as the best player on his team, just as it is rarely reassuring to fall against his great rival five days before the biggest deadline of the season.

THE MATCH SHEET

Half time:

1-1 Spectators: 65,000.

Referee:

Mr. Letexier.

Goals.

Marseille: Sanchez (31st), Malinovskyi (57th);

PSG: Ramos (45th + 2)

Warnings.

Marseille: Guendouzi (48th), Mbemba (49th);

PSG: Mendes (64th)

Marseille:

Pau Lopez - Mbemba, Gigot, Kolasinac (Kaboré, 63rd) - Under (Ounahi, 85th), Rongier (cap.), Veretout, Clauss - Malinovskyi, Guendouzi - Sanchez (Vitinha, 90th).

Trainer: Tudor

PSG:

Donnarumma - Hakimi, Ramos, Marquinhos (cap.), Mendes - Verratti (Soler, 76th), Danilo (Zaire-Emery, 63rd), Ruiz - Vitinha (Ekitike, 63rd) - Messi, Neymar.

Trainer: Galtier.