PSG did well on Saturday night in Lens, avoiding defeat at the last second.
But since the start of the season, the performances of the Parisians are far from reassuring even if the results are there.
If PSG were a high school student, they would easily win the Magnificent Swindler's Trophy.
You know, the one who doesn't give a damn much in class always ends up doing well on his natural class.
This season, the capital club have mastered the art of I-don't care.
Almost no game background despite a constellation of stars but each time the ability to get by thanks to its natural class.
Example Saturday evening in Lens.
Dominated as rarely this season in Ligue 1, PSG managed against the evidence to bring back a miraculous draw (1-1) by equalizing in added time.
A Mbappé caviar placed on Winaldjum's head was enough for the Parisians to avoid their second defeat of the season in the league.
A miracle, one more in a season where PSG rarely crushes its opponent but always ends up doing it.
To the point of losing his lucidity like Mauricio Pocchetino.
"I think the result is fair"
“The team fought, they suffered but they were able to come back to the score.
But, in the end, I think the result is fair, ”dared the coach of a PSG who was only able to stay alive until the end thanks to the awkwardness of the Lensois attackers to make the break.
With Danilo in a walker, Bernat in a wheelchair, Icardi in the process of divorce with football or even Navas converted for a match into Claude Barrabé, it is true that PSG was not helped by its players on Saturday. evening in the North.
Add to that a Messi (1 goal) who has scored fewer goals this season in Ligue 1 than Jason Denayer (2 goals) and you will understand why Paris looks so sluggish.
Especially one evening when Mbappé started on the bench before returning and being once again decisive.
The Lens match is no accident
The Parisian star is also the only one who allows each time, by his goals or his passes, to push back the introspection, of a team which plays backwards without daring to admit it.
"We like to control the game but tonight, it was difficult against Lens", tried to justify Marco Verratti after the meeting at the microphone of Canal + shifted.
As if the Lens match was just an accident.
But in Manchester City, Leipzig and even Bruges, Paris has struggled this season in the Champions League.
And the poorly mastered match of Lens can also join those played in Rennes, Saint-Etienne, against Nice or even Lille in the list.
Already fall champion without having shown much
Yet the figures are nothing to worry about.
Leader of Ligue 1 with 13 points ahead of its Marseille runner-up, Paris is already the autumn champion two days from the end of the first leg.
The suspense for the title is therefore as unbearable as an enigma in an episode of Columbo.
There remains the Champions League, the absolute Grail on which this Paris Globe Trotters was mounted.
Given the start of the season, anyone would be freaking out for what follows.
Not in Paris where we quietly promise that we will be there in the spring when the knockout matches begin.
Always this syndrome of the high school student who did the minimum all year to end up getting the baccalaureate.
Except that in C1, there is no remedial session.
So it's time to get down to business.
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