Paris (AFP)

Doubt intrudes on the "Fantastic Four": Paris SG, worryingly defensively, was hooked Sunday in Ligue 1 against Monaco (3-3), a first failed test for its quartet of stars, where Neymar appeared too alone .

Author of a double (3rd, 41st) and a movement that pushed the Monegasques to score against their camp (24th), the Brazilian was not enough to compensate for the alarming defensive largesse of the PSG, picked on a goal gag d 'Islam Slimani (70th).

It is however a total satisfaction for Robert Moreno, the Monaco coach who signs for his second at the head of the ASM a big performance allowing the Monegasques to go up to eighth place in the ranking, four points from the dominated podium by Paris, five units in front of Marseille.

Scoring three goals against Paris at the Parc des Princes in the league, the Spanish coach is the only one to have done so since 2011 and the start of the Qatari era of the champion club of France.

This shock against Monaco came at the right time for PSG, impatient to put to the test against a big team its current game plan with four offensive elements, composed of Neymar, Angel Di Maria, Mauro Icardi and Kylian Mbappé.

Was he going to lack balance against the dense midfield of players from the Principality? Was he going to stand before the onslaught of Wissam Ben Yedder, the top scorer in the championship? Was he going to resist the "grinta" instilled by Moreno?

- Concerns -

Affirmative. In a quarter of an hour Sunday evening for the closing of the 20th day of Ligue 1, coach Thomas Tuchel saw his initial hesitations resurface, he who had first evacuated the idea of ​​aligning his four artists from the attack, before resolving it by ensuring that his men would not skimp on defensive efforts.

PSG has indeed completely sunk on two Monegasque rapid attacks, concluded first by Gelson Martins (7th) and then by the 14th goal of the season of Ben Yedder (13th). More worryingly, the four attackers were not the only ones to blame on the spot, as the defense appeared fragile, like Thomas Meunier, Marquinhos and Juan Bernat, hard-pressed on the French international festival.

Already an opportunist at the start of the game to open the scoring on a long exquisite ball from Marco Verratti, Neymar was then happy to see Fodé Ballo-Touré divert his shot to his own goal, and to convert a penalty caused by Mbappé, the only blow of radiance of the evening of French.

But these 9th and 10th goals this season in Ligue 1 for the Brazilian did not allow PSG to take shelter.

And without a Keylor Navas several times imperial, the addition could have gotten tough before the 70th minute, the moment chosen by Slimani, replacing at kick-off, to seek equalization.

On an innocuous balloon where he is undoubtedly offside, he sees himself put back into play by a bad intervention by Marquinhos, and manages to deceive Navas to calm an audience hitherto delighted by the spectacle.

Doubts are therefore required, just over a month from the knockout stages of the Champions League in Dortmund. Thomas Tuchel has two options, as he moves to ... Monaco on Wednesday, in a late match. Give his "Fantastic Four" a second chance, or return to a less ambitious scheme. And, therefore, install a star on the bench.

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