Defeated at the end of the match, Paris becomes an outlier of French football in the Champions League

First the astonishment, then the whistling, tinged with exasperation and fatigue. The public at the Parc des Princes expressed their discontent on Wednesday, November 6, at the end of a match that Paris Saint-Germain could not afford to lose, that it should never have lost, but still lost against Atlético de Madrid (1- 2). Luis Enrique’s players suffered this setback in one of the rare mattress attacks, with a goal from Ángel Correa (90ᵉ+ 3). At the same time, the referee whistled the end of the game. Curtain.

This defeat leaves the Parisians, many of them stunned at the end of the match, mired in doubts that continue to grow, match after match, in the Champions League. Halfway through, after four games, PSG is only in 25th place – out of 36 teams – in the league phase, and only has four measly points, with one win, one draw and two losses. Worse still, they have already played three of their four games at home.

After the match, it was a disappointed Luis Enrique who appeared at a press conference. “It’s a bad joke, (…) the opponent didn’t do anything”lamented the Spanish coach, who described this defeat “inexplicable”comparing it with the matches played against Girona (1-0) and PSV Eindhoven (1-1) at the Parc des Princes. During these three games, PSG multiplied its opportunities, dominated its rival, but faltered enormously in the finishing.

The Parisian team has made inefficiency a bad refrain in the European Cup this season. Against Atlético he scored more than two expected goals (2.22 xG), which measures the number of goals a team should have scored in a match, depending on the dangerousness of the shots attempted, but they once again underperformed. “We played well, we created chances, we progressed but not efficiently”lamented Marquinhos, who had a very sad 200^my as captain of PSG.

PSG, overshadowed by other French clubs

To score its three small goals in the European Cup this season, Paris has always counted on the opponent’s mistakes. Against Colchoneros, Warren Zaire-Emery took advantage of Clément Lenglet’s delay and Ousmane Dembélé’s serve before finishing with a subtle jump (14th). But four minutes later, “in a moment of distraction”As Vitinha described it, PSG conceded the tie through Nahuel Molina (18th). Everything had to be done again, which is not an easy task for Paris this season in C1.

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