PSG delivered a pretty foul match against FC Nantes on Sunday night.

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  • Paris missed the opportunity to return to the throne of Ligue 1 after its defeat (2-1) against a team from Nantes 19th at kickoff.

  • The level of play and the state of mind displayed by Mauricio Pochettino's men on Sunday is enough to worry the supporters in view of the title at the end of the season.

At the Parc des Princes,

Direct competitors of PSG in the title race, Lyon, Monaco and Lille had set the table and served the meal to the Parisians, each catching only one small point this weekend.

All I had to do was sit down to eat and enjoy.

Instead, the men of Pochettino preferred to mess up dinner and throw everything upside down.

By losing (2-1) at home on Sunday night against Nantes, 19th in Ligue 1 at kick-off, the reigning French champions attacked themselves at the worst moment of an end of the season which will certainly be play less than nothing.

And it is not forbidden now to wonder about the ability of this team to seek the Grail at the end of the season.

Especially since what happens in the windshield is enough to make you sweat: a trip to Lyon next week and the reception of Lille the following.

Absolute void, once again

“It is not possible to lose there, dropped a totally disillusioned Danilo Pereira at the microphone of Canal + after the match.

We have a good first period.

On the second, we put less intensity.

It's difficult to analyze what happened.

Difficult, really?

Yes and no my adjutant.

At no time did Paris approach this meeting with the state of mind that such a stake - 1st place - demanded, contenting itself with playing baballe until Kolo Muani was legalized in Nantes, after a back pass. Mbappé's gift.

At 1-1, we did not feel even the beginning of the beginning of a feeling of revolt, as if the Parisians were telling themselves that, well, anyway, it is Nantes opposite what.

“After the equalizer, the game became more open.

We suffered, we struggled.

We weren't strong enough to win.

It was a difficult match, ”observed Mauricio Pochettino coldly at a press conference after the defeat.

Wednesday's game hit the reserves, he said.

“After a Champions League match, there is a huge expenditure of physical and mental energy.

In a physically difficult match like today, it shows that we struggled.

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If the excuse of the bamboo blow is perfectly admissible, only four days after a very expensive round of 16 fuel, it is rather what (does) (not) collectively (not) this team that is worrying.

For 90 minutes, no combinations, little movement, zero fluidity, nothing, nothing but tchi.

As if the players had just met on a beach in Pornichet in the middle of August and had decided to have a little football, like that, for fun.

We exaggerate so little ...

Paris has no excuse

One would almost come to wonder if the demonstration of force of Camp Nou would not be classified in the radius of the blows of an evening finally.

However, the arrival of Pochettino had hinted at some notable changes, especially in terms of combativeness.

Wednesday, even the usual tauliers (we do not count Keylor Navas, who has not had to miss a match since the birth of the printing press) like Verratti or Marquinhos, guilty on the two Nantes goals, failed in their mission.

“These defeats [with those against Lorient and Monaco in February] are inexplicable, said the former manager of Spurs.

When we lose a match like that, there are no excuses, we just have to do our mea culpa and assume our responsibilities.

On that subject, Pochettino might not get through the drops this time around.

After often aiming right in his choices, the Argentinian coughed.

What took him, for example, to align Mbappé alone at the forefront in place of Mauro Icardi?

The too weak influence of the French in this position does not date from yesterday.

If he admits that "the task will be more difficult now" to get the title, the ex of Espanyol recalls that there are still "a lot of matches.

“Yes, nine, almost like the number of PSG defeats this season (7).

“If we want to be champions, concludes Pochettino, we will have to win all our matches by the end, starting with Sunday in Lyon”.

We can not wait to be there.

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