PSG bowed on Wednesday evening on the Manchester City lawn, without there being absolutely nothing to complain about.
If PSG is already qualified for the round of 16, the collective impression left by this team is hard to see.
While we are almost halfway through the season, the question of osmosis between all the stars of the team and the coach is becoming a little more pressing every week.
At the Etihad Stadium,
The European evenings of Paris Saint-Germain follow and resemble each other;
and we, poor wretches that we are, we end up not knowing what to write.
Oh of course, the ease would be to refer you to our old papers (here, there or there) since, in fact, we end up repeating the same things over and over again.
Namely that this PSG is anything but a team, that the players seem to evolve together as if they had just met at the bend of a field of five in the neighborhood and that there is none, but then no chance to hope for anything in this competition if nothing changes by February, when Pochettino's men have an appointment in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
So we will try to renew ourselves, US.
And to project oneself towards this horizon which is at the same time so close and so far away.
Pochettino may well repeat that his team need time, that many players arrived in the offseason in disparate states of form and that building a collective does not happen in a snap, the fact remains. that by February (three months, therefore), his PSG has already burned half of his time and that we do not see the beginning of the tail of an idea.
Worse, Wednesday, we clearly had before us two teams, not which do not play the same football, but who do not play the same sport.
And this despite Messi, despite Neymar, Mbappé, Hakimi, Marquinhos, etc, etc.
So, is this Galactic version PSG already a fiasco?
A coach less and less there
At the time of writing, the question is quickly answered. The less alarmists will say that we are exaggerating, that the moment when Paris will have to be ready has not yet arrived, that he has already won the championship and that he is qualified for the 8th before the end of the group stage. . And they are right in a way. And who knows, maybe even this team will win the C1 next May and we will close our valve. However, at the moment t, we do not see how this shapeless cluster of individualities could turn into a somewhat well-oiled machine. No, frankly, it's hard to believe it.
Already because in the current state of things, the club's environment is far too polluted for the serenity necessary for the formation of a collective spirit to be present.
You only have to see the debates that have occupied this pre-game against City.
How to get the ball out under the Mancunian pressing?
How to respond to the constant wing changes of Skyblues?
If only… No, most of the time it was about Pochettino's spleen in Paris, his criticisms - and there are many - for the project he was given in January and his desire to leave for Manchester United.
And the Argentine may try to play us the chorus of "rumors that are part of the job", it would seem, however, from numerous and concordant sources, that it is his entourage who circulates a good part of it.
The ostrich policy
If there was only that, still, but no.
Because the most worrying in there, it is the analysis which is made by the actors themselves after the rout of Wednesday.
Hang in there because there is something to fall back on.
Ander Herrera:
“
I don't remember a save from Keylor Navas or a big chance from City, apart from saving Hakimi.
We should have had more of the ball but they didn't have a lot of chances.
We defended well, we had chances and we could have won the game.
"In a more concise but no less lunar style, we also had Kimpembe who did not hesitate to say that" on the whole, it was a good match [on their part], we are not going to spit on this. that we did good.
"
Good bah he is happy with everyone
Everything is fine pic.twitter.com/eRqPFBRrAz
- Yacine hamened (@ yacine1607) November 24, 2021
Finally,
last but not least
, Mauricio “je-me-voile-la-face” Pochettino, when answering a British colleague who questioned him about the lack of style of his team: “I think we is improving, a lot has happened since the start of the season, but things are much better compared to a month or two ago, little by little we are improving.
We are not asking that the Reds and Blues self-flag in public places, but all the same, a little bit of hindsight on the porridge concocted Wednesday night would not have been refused.
It remains to be hoped that the internal discourse is a bit different because, otherwise, it is difficult to imagine PSG filling in the gaps - and God knows there are - that he himself refuses to see.
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