In Burgundy, PSG confirmed everything. He validated his offensive errors as well as his lack of margin over his pursuers in Ligue 1 even if he maintains an accounting lead which guarantees him a leadership position at the end of this 14th day. Four days before his trip to Salzburg, where he will play part of his future in the Champions League, he continues to worry up front with a shovelful of opportunities transformed into nothing (25 shots including 11 on target), in defensive counterattacks for a corner with no future when the crossbar did not save the Auxerrois after an almost perfect curl from Vitinha (69th).
Now Paris is now playing with attackers, real number 9s, and nothing changes. He prefers friends before goals. As proof through the absurd that the problem is no longer one of tactics but of the talent of the players in place. Paris is made up of a bunch of kids with little experience at the high level. Gonçalo Ramos returns to the competition, for his second start in a row after Nantes and still lacks benchmarks. The judgment necessarily remains tempered after more than three months of absence. But he has the confidence of Luis Enrique. As soon as he returned to the group, the Portuguese was the first to enter in Bavaria against Bayern Munich (1-0) and therefore twice lined up at kick-off in Ligue 1.
Randal Kolo Muani did not experience as much favor even if the French International replaced him at the hour mark as if the Asturian coach wanted to demonstrate that he was of good composition and open after a week turbulent where its rigid management and its whims were denounced, at least in the media. And undoubtedly internally, otherwise Kolo Muani would not have set foot on the Abbé Deschamps lawn, like the others in the championship before.
It therefore takes thousands of situations for this PSG to score and its slowdown becomes spectacular: 0 goals in Munich, 1 against Nantes at the Parc des Princes and zero in Yonne. Bradley Barcola, who is no longer the top scorer in Ligue 1 after Lille’s Jonathan David’s double, has lost himself in the shadow of his past pep and punch, unrecognizable in his transmissions and his choices when he is not watching the actions as a spectator.
-Kang-In Lee, preferred to Ousmane Dembélé at the start of the match, lacks sharpness and it is Luis Enrique’s entire team which was damaged in front of Donovan Leon, impeccable in the face of the weakness of the attackers, their lack of sense of goal . It is as if all the members of the squad in turn in front of the Icaunais goalkeeper had discovered the making of a goal, the accuracy that it requires, the appropriate movement, the science that it requires as well as the relaxation in the last gesture. Kolo Muani will be the symbol of this in added time, missing a face-to-face and definitively elevating Donovan Léon to the rank of king of Burgundy.
The Spanish coach had tried to innovate once again by tactically adjusting his training. Warren Zaire-Emery had to start from a left central-back position while Fabien Ruiz could leave the left midfielder for an axial role, close to Ramos to start. The 2024 European champion has transformed himself into a quasi-playmaker, allowing his partners to benefit from his vision of the game. Despite the arrival of two International A players on the hour mark – Dembélé and Kolo Muani – , Paris has never managed to take advantage of its domination to the point of overdose. The main thing is missing, the ecstasy of the goal.
