The Parisian leader was outclassed in Monaco (3-1), Saturday during the 23rd day, a worrying situation three days before the shock against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
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Totally exceeded, PSG was outclassed in Monaco (3-1), Saturday February 11 during the 23 e day of Ligue 1, and dives into doubt three days from the shock against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
This severe defeat, which comes just after a glory elimination in Marseille in the French Cup (2-1), only confirms the catastrophic situation of the capital’s club. Since the resumption of national competitions after the 2022 World Cup, this team is unrecognizable and its game has been disintegration of each of its outings a little more.
Admittedly, Paris was deprived of several major players (Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi, Marco Verratti, wounded) and the eleven aligned by Christophe Galtier was experimental. But the Parisian technician will not be able to take refuge back behind the absences as long as his troops seem to have lost foot in recent weeks.
For Galtier, the state of grace from the start of the season is already from ancient history and it is with enormous pressure on the shoulders that he will have to prepare the coming Tuesday by because of the princes of the sextules champions of ‘Europe.
Seeing the distressing spectacle offered by PSG in the Principality, Bayern has something to be reassured even if Messi and Verratti should find their places in three days. After this undressing suffered on the rock, it is indeed with a morale at half mast and an extremely weakened coach that the champions of France, beaten for the 4 e times in a month and a half, go Welcome the Bavarian ogre.
At this rate, the Parisian leader could even worry about the defense of his national title, Monaco, his new provisional runner -up, having only 7 points behind in the L1 ranking before the match of the ‘OM, 3
Defense at the Abois
Everything went through for Paris, who conceded a goal from Alexandr Golovin from the 5th e minute by taking advantage of the apathy of a defense at the abductions, like the Young El Chadaille Bitshiabu, largely faulty on this goal as on the next one scored by Wissam Ben Yedder (18
The addition could even have been more salty without the multiple parades of Gianluigi Donnarumma (15
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What to arise the anger of the Parisian supporters massaged in the parking lot visitors to the Louis-II stadium, who deployed an unambiguous banner (“Wake up, you make us crack”) before asking the players Parisians to “wet the jersey” and smoke the Monegasque enclosure with pyrotechnic machines.
Galtier will always be able to pretend the many absences and a “small virus” having touched part of the workforce which forced him to modify his typical team. But at the time of approaching the major European deadlines, the lack of psychological spring of his men is as worrying as the many individual bankruptcies, like that of Neymar, transparent throughout the match when he was supposed to be the leader PSG without Mbappé, Messi or Verratti.
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One thing is certain after this scathing setback: the meeting against Bayern will be crucial for the rest of the PSG season and undoubtedly the future of Galtier, who will play very big Tuesday.