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  • Paris have taken only one point out of fifteen against the best teams in the championship since the start of the season.

  • Never under the QSI era has the defending champion been threatened with finishing off the podium at this point in the season.

  • Marco Verratti has confided his concern after this new wasted opportunity against Monaco.

At the Parc des Princes,

Let us resist here the temptation to overwhelm poor Mauricio Pochettino, who must already go down to the cellar to find enough able-bodied attackers to line up twice a week.

But still anyway.

Whether he wins brilliantly, like at Camp Nou, or whether he loses without discussion a decisive match in the podium race, like Sunday night, the Argentine says nothing.

A wall barely cracked by banalities that follow one another faster than an English variant transmission.

  • "Everyone can have their opinion, but if there is a culprit it is me"

  • "I take responsibility for the defeat"

  • "As long as it is mathematically possible, we will fight for the title".

However, we had plenty of figures that could interest him with this defeat in two pot-spooning against ASM, without any clear opportunity for his team, even taking out the binoculars.

>> Paris has already lost 6 Ligue 1 matches this season, a record under the QSI era that began in 2011/12.

It is also the highest number of defeats for PSG in a single Ligue 1 exercise since 2010/11 (8).

>> Paris took only one point in fifteen (

1 OF 15, ONE OF FIFTEEN, UNO DE QUINCE

) against the top 5 this season, the said top 5 including the valiant Lensois (remember, after the holidays in Ibiza ).

>> Lille (58 points), Lyon (55), PSG (54), Monaco (52): after 26 days, the first four stand in only 6 points.

Ligue 1 had not experienced such a tightening since 2010/2011, last season just before the arrival of Qatar (the first five in 5 points at this stage of the season).

Never so many negative signals in the QSI era

So if we say what we want to the numbers, it seems, there is still a hell of a lot of clue to say that an industrial accident is possible at the end of this season started strangely for those who are Gone far in the final 8 last summer.

By industrial accident, some will hear "no league title", a warning that Verratti took very seriously on Canal after Monaco: "This team is having a very good championship, we knew it, but these are the matches he you have to win because there you start to lose a lot of opportunities to win this title.

The other teams are moving forward, they are not waiting for us ”.

For our part, we will allow ourselves to add that we are also starting to make the podium for the podium, even if it means passing for Jehovah's witnesses, while Neymar and Di Maria will soon return to babysit and that the PSG is coming. still stick four at Camp Nou.

But we have to believe that Barça defends even less well than Nîmes Olympiques, because the two champions of the championship that we saw with our little conspiratorial eyes at the Park, namely OL and Monaco, came to win on a regular basis , while waiting for the Losc.

"We are starting to lose a lot of opportunities"

In all objectivity?

Lille's collective strength is unmatched over time, and Kovac has made Monaco a war machine since the start of the year, all without Golovin and with a Fabregas in therapeutic half-time.

We have some doubts about the Lyon attackers capable of putting in five, like bombing a hospital in broad daylight, but Rudi Garcia's players at least have it in their favor to be solid against their direct opponents.

We would like to say the same for PSG.

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