That we immediately reassure the Parisian supporters who preferred to enjoy their Saturday in the open air rather than staying on their sofa to look at the trips of Parisians to Strasbourg: it is not the real PSG that lost this Saturday afternoon to the Meinau (2-1). And it is nothing like the one we will see on Wednesday evening challenge Arsenal at the Parc des Princes to get his ticket in the Champions League final on May 31 in Munich.
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Yes, Paris lost for the second consecutive time in Ligue 1 and this remains a small event since it had not happened to him since March 2023. Yes, Paris lost its invincibility outside under the orders of Luis Enrique and that makes a stain in the Parisian decorum before playing its season in four days. But how can we draw conclusions from a meeting where only one element holder to the Emirates chained to Strasbourg (Joao Neves finally released at the time of play)?
When Mikel Arteta decided to renew nine players out of eleven to face Bournemouth, Luis Enrique, he favored the rest of these executives (Donnarumma, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Nuno Mendes and Ousmane Dembélé left in Paris) and preferred to give time to his young guard (Tape, Mayulu, Mbaye, holder).
Lucas are found
We imagined this PSG much less consistent and more at the mercy of a new setback, a week after his previous one against Nice. It didn’t miss it. Paris had rather looked good for twenty minutes and displayed good intentions materialized by a head of Ramos (3rd) or a distant strike from Lee (14th). This remained shy, sober and since it was not immune to anything with this young team (22 years on average), PSG was finally weighed down by individual errors from its two Lucas.
Beraldo, first, guilty of a revival in the totally failed axis which led to an Alsatian corner. Hernandez, then, pushing in his own nets the ball he was trying to dodge on this same corner conceded a few seconds earlier (20th). Whether he plays with his team A, B or C, Paris displays the same ailments and always demonstrates the same feverishness on the kicks stopped with this 16th goal collected on this phase of play which is decidedly his big weak point.
Barcola revolt
The height of irony, it is therefore the oldest element of PSG (29 years old) which has won this far too light PSG in everything: commitment, efficiency or creativity. The other usual substitutes did not manage to pull the Parisian collective upwards and did not do much to demonstrate that they were better than this status. It was ultimately not surprising to see Strasbourg double the put just before the break of a superb strike of the right foot signed Félix Lemaréchal (45th + 3) which ignited the Meinau.
Once again, Lucas Hernandez has shown confounding passivity in his left corridor and his replacement at the break (entrance to the young Noham Kamara, who knew his first with the pros) could almost look like a relief. Désiré Doué replaced Kang-in Lee, released on injury. From relief, Bradley Barcola also had to know when he came to reduce the gap up the locker room (43 seconds of play in the second period) of a pretty lonely rush (46th). A capital goal for PSG and for number 29, which remained on eleven consecutive matches without finding the net.
Completely inside in the first period, the French international sounded the small revolt of Parisians better organized after the break and more rigorous tactically. The men of Luis Enrique were also more dangerous but tended to rush too much in their last gesture, whether Ruiz (65th), gifted (70th, 75th) and Mbaye (78th, 81st, 88th), or to lack precision like this head of Ramos (85th). He will not have missed much at PSG to avoid this defeat which will quickly be forgotten if the real Paris, the authentic, eliminates Arsenal on Wednesday evening.
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