While the house is burning, PSG have looked elsewhere. Without extinguishing the flames after a third draw in a row, including two against the same team from Benfica Lisbon from one week to another. Paris remains undefeated this season and retains the lead in Group H of the Champions League, with a good option on qualification after the debacle of Juventus Turin on the lawn of Maccabi Haifa. If the backstage promises to be explosive with Kylian Mbappé’s desires to leave, sporting life remains tumultuous all the same.
Paris no longer wins, seemed even less strong and dominating at the Parc des Princes than at the Luz stadium a few days earlier, continues to score just as little – with a single penalty from Mbappé this Tuesday evening, October 11. The offensive animation is still an open site with very little danger against the Lisbon people, as if the team were anemic, without second wind, not many more ideas, relying only on the inspirations of the Neymar-Mbappé duo . Who was constantly looking for himself but did he really have a choice?
Leo Messi’s replacement, Pablo Sarabia, once again buried himself in the Parisian night, until he disappeared as the match progressed. The PSG bench questions, while no man who comes from it reverses the trend, apart from the impeccable Danilo Pereira, still as generous and combative, but he is more of an interim. Juan Bernat, he repoints the tip of his nose, with the penalty obtained. The full-back is one of the best value-for-money signings of recent years, a miracle due to first-era Antero Henrique.
A PSG that is too cautious and not creative enough
Since then, the former sporting director has returned to the club in another function and is attracting all eyes. He is part of a cohort of leaders that Mbappé can no longer see in painting, considering himself duped, wronged and betrayed. So here he is in full desire to leave, while this half-season has just passed half of its infernal calendar.
At the pace of recent months, discontent and stories of this new PSG, no supporter will be able to keep pace from a cardiac point of view. If a book had been written since July, there would already be several volumes and all the Netflix screenwriters would have been fired, for not having imagined this improbable carnival that PSG offers us a little more every day.
Too cautious and not creative enough, the Paris of Christophe Galtier does not lose, a lesser evil, but does not announce any thinning in the days to come. His game remains confused, even more without Leo Messi, and his backstage upside down with the soap opera of the pronounced divorce between the club and its absolute star. In any case the best paid and the one supposed to be at the heart of the project which looks more and more like an illusion and a blurred horizon.
There is something to get excited about though. Sunday is a clasico, an old French tradition and a summit between the two engaged in the Champions League, Paris and Marseille. It would be about finally winning a meeting in the middle of the still hot lava of a news that looks like dynamite.