Qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League, PSG still suffered against FC Barcelona.

Dominated and unimaginative, the capital club struggles to find the solution when its opponents surpass it in aggressiveness, note the consultants of Europe 1. 

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For the PSG, the mission is accomplished, but all the doubts are not erased.

Benefiting from a wide mattress after their wide victory in the first leg (4-1), Marco Verratti's teammates won their qualification for the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday against FC Barcelona.

But the Parisians, saved by Keylor Navas, suffered the whole match and showed real excitement, letting for a moment believe in a possible new "remount", similar to that of 2017. 

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For the former coach of the capital club, Laurent Fournier, the first leg should not hide the shortcomings of this PSG.

During the match at Camp Nou, "we did not see the real Barça. It was easy for PSG", he said, deeming "worrying the number of chances that PSG concedes".

"When we have teams who attack them and put aggression in the midfield, they have difficulty finding solutions, as against Lorient, Lille or Lyon in the league."

And to add: "When the players are combative and go beyond their possibilities, the PSG is in difficulty". 

"We will have to get back to the level"

"In the use of the ball, in the fact of getting out of high pressing, Paris has deficiencies," said former player Jimmy Algerino for his part.

New coach Mauricio Pochettino, he adds, "will have to find some tips to help his team".

And if he welcomes an "interesting defensive solidity", the consultant of Europe 1 says he is "disappointed with the intentions of the game of PSG. There was none".

"We saw the real Barça play with creativity, which we have not seen on the side of PSG", abounds Laurent Fournier.

"It's a bit scary for the future."

"We will have to get back to the level," warns Jimmy Algerino, especially since given his journey to the final last summer, Paris "has almost the obligation to reach the semi-finals" this year. 

"We don't have the impression of a war machine"

Symbol of this completely failed match: striker Kylian Mbappé, light years from his level of the first leg, during which he scored a hat-trick.

"He was in a bad mood, he was not defending," annoys ex-coach of AJ Auxerre, Guy Roux.

"We felt a certain casualness, he did not make an effort, did not win", confirms Laurent Fournier, when Jimmy Algerino was surprised to see a Mbappé "lose almost all the balls, do not make the fair gestures ". 

"We expect more from him," adds journalist Nabil Djellit, for whom we "found the wrong Mbappé in the game".

The fact remains, for him, that this lackluster performance from Paris Saint-Germain should not make us forget the qualification and especially the magnificent collective performance of the round of 16 first leg.

"It's an unchecked qualification in the second game, but we cannot erase what PSG achieved in the first leg," he said.

When we look at PSG, he agrees, "we don't have the impression of a war machine like Manchester City or Bayern Munich", but "we had to qualify and continue on our way", all without Neymar .

From this point of view, PSG has fulfilled its mission, but today it can measure the distance it remains to travel to repeat its exploits of last summer.