Paris (AFP)

Already the second defeat of the season for PSG: the Paris club, forced to play without many of its major players, lost at home to Reims (2-0), Wednesday at the end of the 7th day of Ligue 1 but retains its leading position.

Already defeated in Rennes (2-1) from the second day in late August, the champion of France this time dropped points on his lawn. He retains his first place only thanks to a better goal difference than his dauphin Angers (15 points, +8 against +5).

For its part, Reims is offering a third prestigious success after its success against Marseille and Lille - still 2-0 - and climbed to 8th place (11 pts).

Only good news of the evening for Paris, the relative normalization of the relations between the supporters and Neymar. At the time of the announcement of the players, the Brazilian N.10 had first seen his name being both whistled ... and acclaimed! As if he had already returned half of the public with his last two jewels against Strasbourg and Lyon.

Once the match begins, no banners, no insults, no whistles on each of his shots. Just "indifference" as promised the Collective Ultra Paris, the main group of supporters, the day after "hell" which had been reserved in early September for his reunion in Paris.

But unlike the last matches, the Brazilian N.10, quite lonely during the game, failed to save his team for the third time in a row ...

Facing the cascade of injuries, his coach Thomas Tuchel has launched a "new-look" team with the young Loïc Mbe Soh tenured to the right-back position, the returning Leandro Paredes or Juan Bernat in the middle. Bet lost.

In the absence of the many executives (Mbappé, Thiago Silva, Edinson Cavani, ...), the broad membership review had a direct impact on the very disappointing performance of the Paris team.

The only thrills of the night were a Paredes missile that came close to the goalkeeper's (9th) posts, and when Neymar saw his free-kick direct shave Rajkovic's left post (29th).

- Reims, strong head -

Reims opened the scoring on the next action. On a good center came from the right, Hassane Kamara took the best on Mbe Soh to place a head unstoppable (1-0, 30th).

Without the usual automatisms of his eleven type, and the lack of impact of "substitutes", like a ghostly Paredes, the Parisians had a hard time putting the game in front of bold and applied Rémois to play their game. blow thoroughly.

So Abdelhamid, lonely at the far post, was close to doubling the lead just before halftime (45th), moments after the outing injury Choupo-Mouting (42).

After the break, PSG was unable to put more pace.

This is how Tuchel quickly made his last two changes by bringing in Thomas Meunier instead of the young Mbe Soh (59th), then Marquinhos at the expense of Layvin Kurzawa (66th). Without notable effects ...

Pis, Reims still had an opportunity to kill the match on a shot from Donis who failed on the post (77th), while the hand of Herrera in the area was not whistled by the referee .. .

Just entered the game, Boulaye Dia finally gave even more brilliance to the performance of his team by increasing the mark of an acrobatic recovery at the end of the game (2-0). In Bordeaux, the next opponent of Paris on Saturday, a reaction and the return of executives are eagerly awaited!

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