• PSG failed to do better than last week in Lisbon and conceded another draw against the Portuguese (1-1).

  • If Paris remains leader of group H and should qualify for the 8th without too many problems, it is the game offered by the Parisians that worries.

  • After a thunderous start to the season, Christophe Galtier's men have been struggling to make good copies for a month and a half.

At the Parc des Princes,

They are nice these Parisians all the same.

If there would be material for journalists to write the equivalent in reams of paper of eight "War and Peace" on what has been happening behind the scenes since the start of the season, on the ground, on the other hand, one could almost place an RTT.

Against Benfica Lisbon on Tuesday evening, PSG once again delivered an absolutely unremarkable match, without rhythm, relief or ideas, and the jokes about the ghost of Pochettino hovering over the Parc des Princes unfortunately lived on.

No, no, it's the PSG of Galtier who plays and puts us to sleep a little more from match to match.

He has even just chained a third consecutive draw, something that had not happened since 2016 when Paris was under the orders of Unaï Emery.



Question torpor, it's starting to last a while.

In truth, apart from the small thinning that appeared at Groupama Stadium against Peter Bosz's Lyon (which, let's agree, was therefore not a superhuman feat), it has now been a month and a half since Paris Saint-Germain offers almost nothing in terms of collective performance.

Since the victories in Toulouse and Nantes at the end of August-beginning of September, roughly speaking, at a time when PSG stuck dance after dance to anyone who dared to stand in their way.

Galtier plays the honesty card

If, so far, Messi and Neymar managed to hide the tactical and technical poverty of this team, the absence of the first and the weakness of the second, on Tuesday, brought to light the shortcomings of this team.

But let's at least allow Christophe Galtier to do what his predecessor never did in a year and a half in Paris, namely to admit the evidence of the observation.

When after explaining more or less what we have just written above, a journalist asked him what he thought of it, he did not beat around the bush.

"Your observation is correct," he admitted.

We are less flashy, less brilliant, less dangerous.

So is there a blow less well on the physical level?

I do not think so.

I just think that at the start of the season, we had a lot more play in the verticality, it went much faster once we had brought out the ball and created the gaps.

It was going much faster on the sides, faster in the penalty area.

There, each time we take the ball out, we added an extra touch, we went back and that allowed the opposing block to reposition itself.

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You are going nowhere with this coach, this group, this atmosphere, this scheme, this "collective" in C1.

You feel that even they don't believe it.

They know they can't delude themselves when it's really going to matter 😅

— Mathieu Faure (@matfaure) October 11, 2022

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Towards a system change?

“At the moment we are in a period where things are less interesting, which raises questions about the overall state of form of each other, with the sequence of matches.

And there is also a reflection to be had on bringing one or even two additional players a little higher to be much more dangerous, ”he continued.

We see there the idea of ​​a change of system by going back to a four-man defense in order to densify the midfield, something which until now was not on the agenda when we questioned it there. on it, especially after Kimpembe's injury.

This is what he tried to do during the match on Tuesday, going up Marquinhos in the middle, without much success despite everything.

Admitting that there is a problem and targeting the shortcomings in question is already part of the way to progress.

A lesser evil for this PSG which, at the moment, seems very, very far from the level of the leaders.

Europeans who will fight in the coming months for the final victory on June 10 in Istanbul.

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