Amiens (AFP)

Without its superstars, PSG avoided a humiliation before Dortmund ... Led by three goals then saved by the double from young Tanguy Kouassi, Paris conceded a poorly controlled draw to Amiens (4-4) Saturday in Ligue 1, three days before the Champions League.

The contrast with his future opponent in the 8th final of C1 is as striking as it is worrying. In the aftermath of Dortmund's convincing success against Frankfurt (4-0), Paris experienced all the trouble in the world to avoid seeing its streak of 22 undefeated matches break at the worst possible time against the ... 19th in Ligue 1.

There is better than being led by three goals after 40 minutes of play to build up confidence before finding the 8th finals of C1, glass ceiling of the ambitious Parisian club for three seasons.

Even the "Ascendada", successful in less than an hour of play, was marred by yet another lack of concentration at the very end of the game, allowing Amiens to snatch the draw by Serhou Guirassy (90 + 1).

Admittedly, the championship leader (1st, 61 points) was deprived of many holders, starting with his stars Neymar, injured in the ribs, and Kylian Mbappé, preserved, to the point of evolving again with the young Tanguy Kouassi (17 years old) ), author of a saving double in the second period (59th, 65th).

But the executives present, such as Thiago Silva, drifting captain and responsible for the first three goals from Amiens (5th, 29th, 40th) and Mauro Icardi, ghostly in attack before his goal (74th), displayed too many shortcomings to show themselves convincing.

- Thiago Silva, 45 minutes in hell -

The only real good news for Parisian coach Thomas Tuchel, red with anger on his bench throughout the game? The imposing Parisian infirmary did not register new patients before C1 ...

Paris made a catastrophic start to a new relegation. To the point of conceding the opening of the score from the 5th minute: following a muscular duel lost by Idrissa Gueye, Serhou Guirassy, ​​perfectly served by Gaël Kakuta, did not tremble to deceive Keylor Navas with a powerful strike (1-0, 5th).

The Costa Rican rampart could not do anything either on the Kakuta missile. The Amiens N. 10, eccentric on the left of the surface but lonely, struck a clear shot to place the ball in the skylight (2-0, 29th).

Unable to set the pace and dominated as rarely in engagement, the Parisians continued to sink just before halftime.

And on a cons, Fousseni Diabaté scored the 3rd goal (3-0, 40th) before a Thomas Tuchel dumbfounded by a scenario that had not happened at the capital club since December 2016, according to Canal + (3-0 defeat at Montpellier).

- Marquinhos and Bernat back -

Ander Herrera, on a last corner, managed to reduce the score just before half-time (3-1, 45 '). The starting point of the Parisian "ascension" on set kicks.

Returning from the locker room, Tuchel strengthened his team by replacing Idrissa Gueye by Marco Verratti, and Thiago Silva by Marquinhos. An event in itself because "Marqui", affected by hamstrings, had not played since the end of January.

If Régis Gurtner prevented Edinson Cavani, titular for the second time in a row, from scoring his 200th goal in the Paris jersey by pushing a dangerous head (52nd), he could not do anything on the two flights of Kouassi.

On a corner, the only player not to enjoy professional status in the eleven of Paris jumped higher than everyone to reduce the gap (59th, 3-2), before equalizing (65th, 3-3) .

In the operation to get his troops back in shape, Tuchel also gave playing time to the ghost Juan Bernat, who believed he offered the goal of victory to Icardi at the end of the match (4-3, 74th).

But in a late game where panic took over in the Parisian camp, Guirassy snatched a deserved draw (4-4, 90 + 1). In Dortmund, the show has probably not gone unnoticed ...

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