PSG crushed Barça at Camp Nou on Tuesday night in the knockout stages of the Champions League (4-1).

If our consultants praised the Parisian performance, they also highlighted the weaknesses of the Blaugranas, light years away from the dominant team of a few years ago.

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PSG had a dream evening.

By crushing FC Barcelona (4-1), in Catalonia, the Parisians hit hard in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League.

Worn by a huge Kylian Mbappé, author of a hat-trick, the reigning French champions have even become the first French team to win at Camp Nou. 

"In this match, we saw the difference between a team that is ready with a tactic and a background of play, and a lost and disoriented team with tauliers in trouble", summarized Jimmy Algerino, the former side of the PSG, during the debrief of the meeting on Europe 1. Because if our consultants praised the great Parisian performance, they also underlined the deficiencies of Barça, become the shadow of the giant that he was still a few years ago. 

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"For a long time we had not seen PSG with good intentions" 

If PSG has won so widely, it owes it above all to a match accomplished collectively.

"We saw a PSG who was right, whether tactically, physically, technically and in the state of mind. It's been a long time since I had seen PSG with good intentions," said Laurent Fournier. , the former midfielder and ex-coach of the Parisian club.

Because indeed, PSG has undoubtedly played its finest football since the start of the season. 

A performance to be credited to the new coach, the Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino, who arrived in January to replace Thomas Tuchel.

"Pochettino prepared the match very well. The choices to put Kean in place of Sarabia (in attack), or to put Verratti in number 10, have paid off," said Jimmy Algerino.

"He will have control over the squad and will be able to make strong choices to show everyone that they will have to be good to be able to play," he continued. 

And Guy Roux concludes, enthusiastic: "There has not been a PSG like that since Final 8, last summer, and again. In any case, I got off!"

"Barça are falling to the bottom of the precipice" 

If the Parisian victory does not suffer from any dispute, it remains to be put into perspective by the level, at times distressing, offered by FC Barcelona.

If there are still executives from the great era of Pep Guardiola, such as Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and Gérard Piqué, Barça is moving away from the best European teams every year.

"I have never seen a Spanish team be so weak technically," said Laurent Fournier sternly. 

"PSG achieved a great European performance, but it is not a huge achievement because this Barça had a defensive level of a Ligue 1 bottom team tonight. Pique should never have started this evening (he returned from injury and had not played for three months,

note

) ", supported Jean-François Pérès, head of the sports department of Europe 1. 

This new humiliation for Barça, after the terrible 8-2 conceded in the quarter-final against Bayern last summer and the traumatic eliminations against AS Roma three years ago (2-0, 0-3) and Liverpool two years ago (3-0, 0-4), sounds like the end of the cycle.

"Barça is falling to the bottom of the precipice, the slope is dangerous. It is a club which is completely to be rebuilt", concluded Jean-François Pérès.

Unless there is an improbable "remount" during the return match, like four years ago ...